Nagamani, The Myth Of Nagamani, Snake-Stone, Gem-Stone Poem by Bijay Kant Dubey

Nagamani, The Myth of Nagamani, Snake-stone, Gem-stone
Nagamani,
The black stone, the blue stone,
The snake stone,
Is nothing
But the myth of Shiva,
Shiva in sadhna
With trisula,
Kamandala,
In the tiger loin cloth
And the rudrasksha rosary
Matted and three ash-lined
On the forehead
With the trinetra
In meditation
Atop the mountain
In some cave
Or on the crematorium ground
A sadhu, a sanyasin,
A sadhaka,
An aghor sadhaka
In tapasya, penance,
Bare-bodied
And with the snake around his blue neck
And that too blue
As for taking poison
When the ocean was churned
As it remained it
When all the gods took it away
The precious things and gems.

Nagamani is but
The fruit,
The fruit of sadhna,
Shiva-sadhna,
Shiva testing the sadhna
Through the snake images
And nightmares,
As the lingam too is
Portrayed with the coiled cobra
So the myth of Nagamani
Is but a sadhna image,
The fruit of sadhna,
The light emitting from
The third eye,
The third eye opening,
The light lighting from a cave,
The cave of sadhna.

To talk of Nagamani is to
Talk of the Shiva image,
The lingam image and motif,
Shiva-sadhna,
Shiva as Mahakal-kalbhairava
Testing and fulfilling sadhna,
Nagamani is the Naga Stone
Never found in head of the naga,
But Shiva as imagined through
Snake symbols and signs
Coming into as nightmares
Of Nagamani,
The fruit of sadhna,
Shiva-sadhna.