Flowering Of A Lotus By Maha Nand Sharma Poem by Bijay Kant Dubey

Flowering Of A Lotus brought out in 1998
From Meerut by the poet himself
Is a book of verse
Written in the Miltonic,
Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained,
Aurobindonian Savitri style,
But falling short of
In cantos
And length
Recreates the same Bhartrihari-Pingla story
Very much like Samson-Delilah
But in a different way.

From the mire of worldliness,
Lust and temptation,
Fascination,
Illusion and hallucination for
When betrayed or hurt inwardly
After getting blows,
The heart breaks and writhes in pain,
Pines and yearns for in vain,
Finally taking to one's counsel,
Conscience and good words
Of wisdom reconciles to oneself
And seeks for deliverance
Leaving it all
To purge out.

Breaking the chains of maya,
Maya-moha,
Its illusion and hallucination,
Infatuation with,
Fascination for beauty and lust
And temptation,
One may get out of the rut of wordliness,
Feeling free and unbounded,
The flower blooming,
Growing up from the muck and mire,
The genius sprouting,
The soul burnt pure into
The furnace of penance.

The poem is all about Bhartrihari,
Bhartrihari and his love
For Pingla,
Madly in love after,
But she after another
And this tears him apart
After fact-finding,
Coming to know of it not,
But realizing it,
How he was cheated,
How infidelity troubling the self,
The mire of worldliness
Indulged in mud-slinging
And people committing sins
In the World of Papa (Sin) ,
Not punya (piety) !