BEHOLD THE SEATED YOGI!

BEHOLD THE SEATED YOGI!

They say He is Dhyanastha,
mindful of matter
and the only matter that transcends mind! 
Yet always, always in meditation
for the welfare of both, in His own Rhythm Divine.
And on awakening, his right hand raised,
Abhaya, fear not, He says.
Fearlessness is the foremost requisite
in this path of meditation,
and,
“Been there done that, all's well,
may all be well with thee too!”
He says.
His hair is definitely matty,
He's been around for a long time, do matts suggest eternity?
We spot the face of a lady, matt-locked there,
in the eternal hair.
It is Ganga, the river Goddess.
Ganga, who once sat at the feet of God in Heaven,
now descended to Earth,
must surely know Godly esoterics,
has Shiva embraced revelation?!!
Do Yogis balance the torrent of Divinity,
and then fountain it out for us?
He is seated on a tiger skin,
but didn’t we say earlier He is seated in meditation?
Is meditation then
just the skin
of the tiger
within?

There is a snake around His neck,
looks like a cobra,
hail the King!
Has the energy arisen
from its slumber,
when the Yogi went outside in?

He must surely like beads,
what a collection!
We think Rudra Aksh grow on trees,
some say they were tears of Shiva.
Does one feel so nostalgic
to actually cry in seeing old albums?
In Samadhi, eternity is a moment,
a moment, and we're in eternity.
Sometimes, one's own souvenirs
are a good thing to hang on by.
From science, we know
the moon is always full
but the crescent in the matt
does look cool.
Does Shiva 'wear' such abstract adornment
to help clearly show it’s only the way we 'see'
that makes One truth grow?

He's got a third eye,
does it open dimension four?
On the forehead where
we have bindi, tilak or another dot,
He's got a third eye
is this the symbol of centered?
The rider of the bull would know,
the timeless rodeo.

And then, there's a trident,
the Trisula.
Shiva's rocket science is serial set in triads,
waking, dream, sleep
knowledge, action, will
future, present, past
above, here, below
and so on, you know!

Shiva rocks,
but by holding ground,
the Trisula is parked,
not flung around.

Originally, piercing
was
to make ears ring,
say the Jogees.
To unfurl a meditative wing.
And the Nath
IS the origin.

The Damaru,
His little drum,
is many things
in one.
It is of course His beat to boot,
to match with Krishna's lilting flute.
But Tantrists say,
it’s the triangles two
that signify
Him and Her,
(In Chinese, Yin and Yang…
Wei and Wu.)
In repose, before creation,
Me and you.
It’s an hourglass!
From top we slip down through
to
Land.
And thus, time, is to wait for the hand Divine,
to downside up again.

( From Shiva Poetry)