Divine Quiescence Poem by SRIRANJI ARATISANKAR

Holi-fair by the side of the River Silabati.
A huge concourse.
Flutes, drams, pipes, bells, horns played
Marry-go-round whirling about
Circus Show, magic Show are fully crowded
Jilibi sellers, pop-corn sellers, are busy
Thousands of people wearing multi-coloured dresses
Laughing, talking, gossiping, making merry, singing,
sneezing, shouting, fussing noisily, gadding about,
Friends assembled loitering after young belles;
Old men and women listening ‘Padabali Kirtana.'
Romantic pairs taking chance be alone in the crowd
The Temple of Srimati Radha and Sri Madhaba
Teemed with a vast multitude of people
The priests qurarlling for fees reciting wrong hymns;

Srimati Radha and Sri Madhaba grasping for breath
As they are over garlanded, inner cabinet of the temple
Fully incensed, candled, covered with fume, with all articles,
Fruits, sweets, honey, milk, clothing for offering in worship.

Srimati Radha and Sri madhaba left the temple.
Came walking slowly by the side of Silabati, far from the fair
The full moon peeping behind the leaves of flowering kingshuk
Moonlit bathed forest background appeared to be a dreamland
Thousands of moon-boat rowing swinging on the waves
Sweet note of patridges heard, fire-flies drawing circle of lustre.

They sat on the bank.
Srimati Radha eyed over the river
When Sri Madhaba took out his pipe for plying
Srimati said whispering ‘‘No, only look at me
And tune your looking with divine quiescence
and float it as a boat on the wave, let it be gone far far away."




Holi..>>> The Hindu feast of commemorating the throwing of red powder
at one anotherBy Krishna (Sri Madhaba) and the milk-maids enamoured of Him.
It is also Hinhu Spring Festival of spraying coloured water.

Padabali Kirtana...>>> Songs sung tuning vaishnava lyric poems.