Snake Charmer’s Art Poem by Dr. Madan Gandhi

The flute lures the snake
to hood up from basket
and to sway to its tune

Such is the power
of the snake charmer’s art
to its binding spell you be utterly lost

An adept knows alone
what magic mantra is hidden
in its ravishing tune

With its hood straight
a yogi-like austerely it stands
in a Natraja pose

Every one is born with a chip
of accumulated karmic memories
from myriad past lives that affect the present

Until you attain the power
to see through the life’s opaque layers
you will not realize its true essence

The flute conceals within its tune the key
which can let you to see the hidden door
that leads to the destination

Instantly it lets you to resume the ascent
to experience the bliss-light of entasy
that on you a Shiva-like glow returns

With ashes you cover your visible part
play on the flute of the heart
to taste the sublime of the artless art.
(Yayati)