Meeting

  

Mohanlal couldn’t believe his eyes,

His inner eyes, that is

For he knew he was present elsewhere

In mortal realms, far away

But here, he saw the magnificence

Of the universe

Swirling in colours of a constant haze

Studded with a trillion stars

 

All the colours faded into grey

Save one

Blue turned the cosmos arms

And Mohanlal cried

His heart told him the truth he always knew

Vishnu was here

Years of sadhana and tapas

And He was here

 

‘Vishnu’ I know you are here,’

He cried ceaselessly

The ultimate truth, nothing beyond

But This

But he heard a laughter

His heart ached

There was no love, but scorn

Mockery of the Maker

 

‘Why do I laugh?’ a voice rumbled

For you are still in dream

Even after you leave your physical world!’

‘What dream, my Lord?

Are you not the Truth, the final one?’

Silence pervaded the cosmos

‘No, there is not destination

In a circle of this Consciousness.’

 

And the devotee gasped

For the blues receded

All the colours of the universe leached

Into a void of nothingness

And from that emptiness

Sprang forth like a spewing fountain

Drops of blue, azure, sapphire

Sprawling into the infinity

 

Millions and millions of universes

With trillions of stars,

And in every heart there glowed

One shining light of life

Can you limit creation in any way?

The million voices echoed

Turning Mohun mad, reminding as if

Insanity was the only way

 

And he found himself flitting

From one universe to the next,

But what a wonder?

In every heart lay the reclining Lord

A pulsar of blinding blue –

Setting the worlds in motion

The Lord of his devotion

Was not One, but countless

‘What wonder is this, Lord?’

He cried in his reverie

‘What are you teaching me

That I cannot see even now?’

That there is no final truth

The universes shimmered

There is no end

Just as there is no beginning

 

Just as you shouldn’t forget

There is no more quest

When you too are Me;

And Mohun’s dream began to break

But in the dying fragments of his dream

He saw himself in wonder

Lying in blue slumber

At the centre of a swirling cosmos…

 

16^th November,  2024