Kashi (A Mandala Poem)by Charu Sheel Singh Poem by Bijay Kant Dubey

Without seeing Kashi,
Hearing the Shiva-lila,
Shiva as sadhaka,
As Maheshwara
Into the jyotirlingas,
How to say about,
How to peruse it
A poem of the mythical context
And delving,
A poem mystical but endowed with
Shiva-sadhna,
Shiva, Shiva, Shiva,
All but Shiva,
Shiva, Shiva, Shiva,
Shiva I, I Shiva,
Shiva, Shiva, I, I,
I Shiva, Shiva I?

What is Shiva? ,
Who is Shankara? ,
Who Shiva-Shankara? ,
The poem born out of Shiva-sadhna
Is a poem of dhyan-yoga,
Samadhi,
The mood of the aghori sadhna,
What the earth,
What our existence,
What gods,
How the universe
And who am I? ,
How to clutch them along,
What is what? ,
Who is what?

Full of oracle and soothsaying,
Kashi is a pilgrimage of the mind,
The soul,
A temple visitor,
A vision of
The linga lighting,
Lighting in the world,
On the mind's plane
Of thought and idea,
The light in the shamshana,
The dark mundane world
Taking on an eerie silence
And the journeys of the mind
Spiritual, religious, spiritual,
Cosmic, transcendental, metaphysical,
Extraterrestrial, mystical, mythical.

Kashi is a dhyana on the bindu,
The bindu,
The point,
The meditation point,
The peak of ascension,
Meditation ascension,
Concentration point
To climb, ascend and reach,
The jyotirlinga
Telling about the pillar
Of thought and idea,
Striking of the soil,
Light in darkness,
The motif with the myth,
The lingam-yoni moif
To be told and retold.