Cacophony to Harmony

Cacophony to Harmony

 

LO! Behold the flute holder,

His somatic curved posture

as if under pressure to tune

the divinity of egoless to croon

while playing on His flute

once, all hearts that did loot

Now thus also His devotees very well feel

while meditating upon Him with minds, still.

Alas! On flute, He used all his fingers

that the present mortal wisdom, it blurs

with queries many, mundane and natural

also deep devotional and philosophical.

To dent at His mystique power, awesome

monks in Himalayan caves are still dumb

Is it that the bamboos stick small and thin

with austerity over Him, could it win

with the penance of baking and drilling

and getting rid of knots as filth cleaning?

Vanish, His strength and mystique power

surrendering to devotees’ devotion, dour.

Or is it, to hypnotize His creations, all

his illusory powers everywhere sprawl?.

Or is it to call His devotees ardent and dear

to embrace Him, the divinity, to come near

through all senses, mind and intellect to grasp the Lord

for time, infinite within them, the Lord to hoard

and His flute- tunes devotees never to miss

to get the captivating happiness peace and bliss?.

At that age the melody from His flute

was said to stall listeners, mesmerized and mute

to listen to it, cows used to stop grazing

so also all, from creepers to a human being.

Queries arise in the mortal wisdom

when He holds on a finger not even thumb

the spinning discus the king among weapons

with thousand blades surprising billion suns

that can destroy at His call any and many

high over space, sky on land and in deep sea

Can this be held by Him on His one finger?

But uses, He all his fingers on a flute as its player.

To protect His loved ones, He could lift and retain

with his little finger the mammoth Govardhan mountain

for days and weeks together

to perish the fury of demigod, the weather

but He needs all His fingers

and frame curving postures

to play the slender little flute

Thus leads philosophers to compute

interpretations, many on acts of supreme

To listen to the melody of his flute, let us dream.

To win over ego that breeds cacophony

need is the divine vibrations in symphony

not the menacing power of the discus to kill

nor the power to hold up a massive Govardhan hill.

Let the tune of Lord’ flute break the cacophony

and blesses us to march ahead egoless in harmony.

 

P K Routray

in the service of Lord

 

 

(In Hindu philosophy the Lord as Vishnu holds four symbolic weapons and in one of His incarnations he was a flute player as Krishna  when he exhibited many a human trait but with divinity. He incarnates to kill unrighteous and protect the righteous and remove the filths created by Rajasic and Tamasic traits of beings.)