Kamrupa Kamakhya/ Where To Go To, To Kamrupa Kamakhya? Assam Guwahati's Kamrupa Kamakhya Devi Temple Poem by Bijay Kant Dubey

Where to go to
Kamrupa Kamakhya
In Assam?
Kamrupa,
Kamakhya,
How weird the names are,
How bizarre
And tantrical?

Since my childhood
I have been hearing,
Kamrupa,
Kamrupa-Kamakhya,
Assam's Kamrupa-Kamakhya,
The tantra spot, the shakti pitha
Of the tantricas,
Tantra sadhna, siddhi.

Of the yoni cult,
The lingam-yoni cult,
The place where the yoni
Seems to have fallen
When Shiva mad after the death
Of his spouse
Had been wandering,
Doing tandava
And Vishnu cut the body with his chakra
To lighten the load of the body.

And out of the bodily parts,
The yoni fell in there,
Turning into a shakti pitha,
A tantrica spot
On the Nilachal hills
Where the temple is,
The Kamakhya temple
Of Kamrupa, Assam, Guwahati.

There is no idol or statue
Of the goddess,
But a sculptured image
In the corner of the temple wall
Looking somewhat dark,
A replica of the bleeding goddess,
In menstruation,
Kamakhya Devi.

The pain of menstruation,
How to feel it,
The load of womankind,
Mother Earth
Bleeding, menstruating,
The Brahmaputra in flood,
Flowing with the rain waters
Symbolizing it?

The garvagriha, the sanctum
Is supposed to contain in
The mythical womb and the yoni
Of the mother,
The Kamakhya Devi
Telling of the myths unresolving.

In the month of Ashad, June,
The temple remains closed
For three days
As for the menstruation,
The water of the Brahmaputra
Turning red
Or the priests pouring in vermillion
Into the waters.

And as such during
The Ambuwasi Puja,
When the mother is supposed to
Be through the period,
The menstruation,
The spectacle is to be seen
As for the Brahmaputra waters
Red with blood or vermillion-mixed,
But something definitely keeps
The vagina moistened regularly.

Into the temple compound
There lie in
The 10 other avatars of Kali,
Namely Dhumavati, Matangi, Bagola,
Tara, Kamala, Bhairavi, Chinnamasta,
Bhuvaneshwari and Tripuara Sundari
Instead of Kamakhya Devi,
The Bleeding Goddess.

Might be it Kamdeva, the god of love
After being struck
Would have beseeched her
Installing the womb and the yoni
To gain over fertility,
As the story does the rounds
Alternatively.

Kamakhya, the yielder of all desires,
Is the ordaining deity,
The organ of Sati fallen,
In Kamrupa, "form of desire" region,
The womb, vulva or source
Whatever call you,
A transmutation of
The motif, myth and mysticism.
Source: After getting the prasad, offered cereal or fruit extracts/things unexpectedly from those returned from Adya Ma, Kolkata and Kamakhya Devi temples. Had no idea of getting. Felt blessed with after getting.