THE TRANCES OF MAHADEVA

 

THE TRANCES OF MAHADEVA

Do not alight

O Mahadeva,

From your mystic session

To watch Sati ablaze;

Followed by the fire in your own eye,

And then

Your frozen silence.

Do not fall asleep

After the venom at Manthana

Leaving Parvati to awaken you from the slumber

Of such chivalry.

Do not awaken O Mahadeva

To see Ganesa victorious

Kartikeya hurt, again,

Not understanding your spiritual lesson at tender age.

Do not awaken O Mahadeva

As Lakshman resuscitated on the battle field,

Chanting feverishly rescue mother Sita, rescue mother Sita

Only having to to desert her,

Again.

Do not awaken Mahadeva, as Mahakala

Witnessing the myriad misery of Kurukshetra,

Listening to your own Krishna speaking in earnest to Arjun,

Teaching the indefiability to TIME,

A vital lesson and introduction to you.

Do not awaken O Mahadeva,

On crucifixion day

Watching Jesus and judas

And the agony of knowing

Your essence was in both.

Do not awaken, O Mahadeva,

In the later forgetfulness,

As ‘SHE’ was being faded away in fervent search of God as HE;

Yet Gorakh the Natha

Running one to another, knowing both,

Divine messenger.

Do not watch O Mahadeva

Her as Lalli

Seeking you desperately in a paradise you named Kashmir

And 107 times more

As named yoginis and unnamed winds

Or forget yourself once, as Viveka

Without her, Ananda?

And yet you smiled at the tears and gently said

O Devi, I pain too, for whose separation was greater?

Know all! Mahadeva!!

Know thyself, by any role, in any time,

But awaken here, with us all,

And take us to the fullness of your Shivohum ,

As us.

~ SShail Gulhati: Shiva and Mysticism.