The Ascent Poem by Madathil Rajendran Nair

A mountain side afire
Crimsonness aflame
Seated Mother drowned in your thought
The flame of forest I am
A perineal* flow of molten lava
That weaves serpent-like
Breathing heat and fire alike
That is how You begin
Raising Your head
Answering the call
The call of my Immortality!

Thunder claps aloud
Lightning streaks the skies
It rains on the peaks
Setting rivers in rage
Down abdominal foothills
Mother, I am
A deluge
Of joy nonpareil
Electric, ecstatic
That is how you move
Answering the call
The call of my Immortality!

The earth splits apart
To show her mines
Of dazzling gold and gems
Mother, I am
Your red robe sprinkled
With golden dots
Covering the navel
That upholds
Creation from dust to stars
That is how you smile
Answering the call
The call of my Immortality!

Heart beats a rhythm
As sanguine turns
The skies around
Into vastness unbound
Rosy redness I am
Where I borrow the hue
There you are
Humbling the damsel dawn
In her blushful sheen
Answering the call
The call of my Immortality!

Air sings your glory
Tunnels of light awake
Up the bronchial paths
As sounds of music play
Distant anklets clank
A sky of quiet I am
Drowned in a joyous brood
That the breeze soothes
Into sky-like evanescence
That is your ascent,
Answering the call
The call of my Immortality!

A temple zooms upward
As space stands aghast
Time loses her support
Events come to naught
A boundless beauty dawns
On the temple heart
There You are!
Mother of all!
Seated on a matchless throne
Fondling the strings
Of my being on your lap
To play an eternal note
Answering the call
The call of my Immortality!

Galaxies in spate
Glitter the crown
That adorns a forehead
Where countless skies
Find at last their resting place
Light-years without a count
Lose their way
Listening to an immortal lullaby
And seeking their essence
In the moist eyes
Oceans of kindness

Mother, You are
Seated on the Lotus
Of a thousand petals
All crimson red
Like a sunset
That human eyes
Have never ever beheld
There You are! Mother!
My own Immortality!

Vanquished distance cries
With time undone
In the ocean
Of your magnificence
Of unsurpassed shine
Unwanted are the eyes
To know it all
In me the fullest thing
For You are the One
Brittle mortality beheld
So far with a wrinkled mind
And blinded eyes
As it did a distant star
In the wilderness of the skies

With your ascent now made
You have never been
Other than the unknowing me
Mindless, formless here I burn
A speck of camphor at your Feet
In an endless flame
That never can be
Other than You, my Immortality

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* Perineal = Of the perineum corresponding to the first circle of Kundalini (mUlAdhAra cakra)

P.S.: This was written in July 2005. I am no Kundalini expert. This is just a poetic visualization of the rise of Kundalini through the six circles (cakrA-s) of the body.