KALKI

Hindi Poetry

हिन्दी कविता

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कर रहे हैं कल्कि कलरव

भीत दैत्य, भीत दानव,

भीत राक्षस, भीत मानव!

ओतप्रोत भय से जन जन,

भीत देव, भीत असुर,

भीत यक्ष, पिशाच भी,

मोह-पीड़ित, विश्व सारा,

आतंकित, आशंकित!

कर रहे भविष्यवाणी,

ज्योतिषी, भविष्यवेत्ता,

रहस्यदर्शी भी हैं अभी,

किन्तु किसे है सच पता,

अनुमान करते हैं सभी!

आगमन की है प्रतीक्षा,

आगमन होना है जिनका,

वे राम हैं या कृष्ण हैं,

रुद्र हैं या कल्कि हैं,

किन्तु कंपन वायु में है,

कंपित दिग्-दिगन्त है,

भीत जगत् जड चेतन,

भीत सन्त-महन्त हैं!

और किसी अप्रत्याशित,

नितान्त ही अनपेक्षित,

क्षण पर अतिथि आएँगे,

करते हुए आश्चर्यचकित!!

अधर्म से न होना मोहित,

अज्ञान से न होना भ्रमित,

कर्तव्य में संलग्न रहना,

अविचलित, प्रमादरहित!

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The Funeral.

दोहराव 

कविता

--

सबके ही हैं हाथ बन्धे,

अपने स्वार्थ में सब अन्धे,

सबकी अपनी शवयात्रा है,

खुद को ही सब देते कन्धे।

बाँया कभी, कभी दाहिना,

दोनों ही कन्धे दुखते हैं,

अदल बदल कर चलते हैं,

इसी बीच कुछ रुकते हैं, 

जब आ जाती है मंजिल,

कुछ इंतजार भी करते हैं,

फिर सब जल्दी से हो जाए, 

उम्मीद यही सब करते हैं।

घर पर लौट, स्नान विश्राम,

फिर उठकर बाकी के काम, 

फिर अगले दिन की तैयारी,

फिर अगले दिन भी यही काम!

यूँ ही तो हर दिन होता है,

इंसान सुबह को उठता है,

थककर रात, सो जाता है,

इंसान ही क्या, उसकी दुनिया,

दुनिया से यही तो नाता है!!

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/

WORD IS THE WORLD.

P O E T R Y

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There Is The Void,

The Great Endless and,

The Beginningless Vast,

Where There Is, 

Neither The World,

Nor The Word,

And The Attention Only, 

Reins Supreme.

Neither Lonely, Nor Alone,

For It Knows Nothing, 

Apart From Itself.

But Then In An awkward Moment,

Appears The Twin, 

The Word And The World,

Entwined Together, 

So Close, So Distant, 

From One-Another,

Like A Twin-star In The Dark Sky. 

And One Tends To Believe, 

The Two Are But One And The Same.

As The One Appears, 

The Another is List Of Sight, 

And One Just Forgets, 

The Two Are But One! 

Just Like You,

I Too Have Heard,

In The Beginning,

There Was But God (Alone?),

I Just Wander,

If God (Alone?) Was There,

Wasn't There The Other, 

The So-called Past!,

Beside The God? 

So I Think,

There Is Nver, 

Either A Past, 

Or A Future,

That Was Or Will Be Ever! 

And The God Utters A Word, 

In His Extreme Utter Solitude, 

And The Word Appears,

And At Once Becomes The World. 

And Though,

The Word Replicates Itself, 

In Infinitely, A Myriad Forms,

It's None Other Indeed, 

The God (Alone?).

Replicating Himself

Time And Again, 

Moment To Moment. 

The Moment, The Word, 

And The World Too, 

Appear And Disappear,

And The God Too Apoears

And Disappears With Them!

It's The One-Man Show, 

That Appears To Go on, 

Endless And Beginningless.

नासतो विद्यते भावो नाभावो विद्यते सतः। 

उभयोरपि दृष्टोऽन्तस्तत्वदर्शिभिः।।१६।।

(गीता अध्याय २)

सर्वमिदं अतो हि वासुदेव यत्किञ्च जगत्यां जगत्।। 

(UN-EDITED)

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Agony and disillusionment.

Agony and disillusionment.
--

Cold can't touch you,
if you are but cold,
Just as an ornament,
can't touch gold,
Just as the fire,
that can't harm itself,
though can no doubt,
burn this whole world,
When you know,
The self as Shiva only,
When you know,
Shiva as the only Self, 
You are not a bye-stander,
You are then only,
But Shiva as the Self.
--

The Mark Indelible.

The Mark Indelible.
==
Don't ever grieve,  Even in your death,
If you have known, Once your Lord,
And have but once, Put His Mark,
On your fore-head, and have accepted,
Him as your shelter, The Savior Ultimate,
In your life, In full surrender,
In full understanding, In full awareness,
For this mark will protect you,
From those servants  of death,
Let them not, touch your soul.
Let them not, claim you as their lot,
They would rush away from you, Scared,
As soon as they look at your face,
As soon as they see that Mark,
And remember the tormentor of Death,
While The envoys of the Lord, 
Would arrive before them.
Don't grieve in life and in death,
If you have even but once,
Put this mark of Vishnu or Shiva,
Of Kali, Durga, or Ganesha,
In your life, In full surrender,
In full understanding, In full awareness,
For this mark will protect you,
And escort you, Take you to their abode.
And you shall live in utter peace and bliss,
Beside your Lord, with Him as His own beloved.
When the time comes at your door,
Though in the eyes of the world 
May be you die in utter helplessness,
The Lord remembers you,
If you have known, Once your Lord,
And have but once, Put His Mark,
On your fore-head, and have accepted,
Him as your shelter, The Savior Ultimate,
In your life, In full surrender,
In full understanding, In full awareness,
The mark would not you let slip,
From the grip, from the hold of it fist,
Having a mark on your fore-head,
Is such a wisdom, given by the Lord.
One a fortunate is showered upon,
By the Lord Himself, this Grace, 
The one only, who has handed over,
One-self, in those might hands of the Lord.
--

I'm but this shadow...!

I'm but this shadow...
--

Exactly an year ago!

Exactly an year ago!
--
I AM the The door, I AM the way,
I AM the one, from myself away.
Calling I AM to myself that is lost,
I AM The one, That comes to myself.
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The Spirit of Gaia.

The Spirit of Gaia.
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गो /  गौः गावौ गावः 
[gauḥ gāvau gāvaḥ, a cow / bull, 2 cows / bulls, 
many cows / bulls,  गो > go > also means nature, earth, life] 
gauh gavau gavah,
cram I,
go the (बीजाक्षर > bījākṣara> 
(root-syllable) is invoked,
involuntarily.
my guru had warned me about this,
had said to be cautious,
lest the spirit of go,
that roams about everywhere,
may overwhelm you, 
possess you,
capture and obsess you.
And lo!
guru's warning came true.
one hot suffocating day,
the spirit of gaia,
dominated me,
like a succubus,
that squeezed me,
and at the same time,
suckled me too.
but not in the love,
of the physical kind,
but of the ecstatic one,
where associated with her,
I but was she,
the mother principle,
the earth,
for go / गो  means earth,
the priyaa,
the preyasee,
[प्रेयसी > preyasī, beloved -feminine]

the prairy,

the fairy,
the haakinee,
[हाकिनी > haakinee. hākinī,]
that beckons,
the Daakinee,
[डाकिनी > Daakinee,  ḍākinī, ]
that consumes,
gorges the spirit,
[ग्रस् > grass, graze, gorge,]
in the spirit.
the shaakinee,
[शाकिनी > shaakinee, śākinī, śākhinī,]
the twig,
[ढाकिनी > Dhakini, ḍhākinī, ]
the kalaa,
[कला > kalā,]
that kills, culls.
the shalk,
the leaf,
दूर्वा >dūrvā,
[/ विदूरयति, निवारयति विघ्नान् / vidūrayati, nivārayati vighnān,
that removes, drives away obstacles and troubles]

the chalk,

[शल्क / śalka, शल् / śal > that cuts, pierces, penetrates,
arrow, knife, blade, bark-skin, barb, वल्कल, / valkala > cover, tiger-skin,
कलम > kalama > pen, कलीय > kalīya > कलई > kalaī > to polish,]
that shines,
that cuts,
that writes,
the ऋत् / ṛt
that is क्लीम् > klīm 

(root-syllable of devī / gaia)

the 'clime', 'clemency', cloud, ... 
and when she had revealed to me,
her form and nature indescribable,
she was nowhere to be seen.
had left me,
Forlorn, in oblivion
[ अव-लीयवन्त > ob-livion,]
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