A scene from Mahabharata

Appeared in his consciousness

Was he to go for Narayan?

Or for Natayani Sena (armies of the Lord)

And the lover without faltering said, Narayan.

Dr. Jernail Singh Anand, a renowned poet and writer from Chandigarh, India, shares his mystic poetry

Dr. Jernail Singh Anand, based in Chandigarh, is an Indian poet and scholar credited with 170 plus books of English literature, philosophy and spirituality. He won great Serbian Award Charter of Morava and his name adorns the Poets’ Rock in Serbia. He was honored with Seneca Award LAUDIS CHARTA by Academy of Arts & Philosophical Sciences, Bari, Italy 2024. He is Founder President of the International Academy of Ethics and conferred Doctor of Philosophy (Honoris Causa) by University of Engineering & Management, (UEM). 

NARAYAN (THE LORD)

Do you want to possess me

Or my body?

The lover was non plused.

Was there really a difference

Between the two?

The scenes of men and women

Fighting battles

Over bodies in the courts

While their minds have already taken divorce

Appeared on the screen of his mind.

It was not an easy choice.

To decide whether a woman

Lived in her mind

Or in her body, and

What she considered more sacred

A scene from Mahabharata

Appeared in his consciousness

Was he to go for Narayan?

Or for Natayani Sena (armies of the Lord)

And the lover without faltering said, Narayan.

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The fall from arrogance

MISSION FORBIDDEN

Pride that comes from our being

Is genuine and desirable too

But the pride

That knowledge injects

Is venomous.

When we find ourselves capable

Of walking on our own legs

And thinking

With a mind if our own,

It is a matter if pride

Not only pride,

Of being thankful to gods

Who make us capable

To complete the cycle

Without any physical disruptions

Man was going smooth

In his love for the creator

And for procreation too

When Satan I felt threatened

And planned mission forbidden

Now, things were plain

The noise of I know I know

Grew louder so that one day

It eclipsed Eden

And man said, who is God?

This challenge could come

Only from a mind

Soaked

In knowledge and insolent pride

Which had lost its sense of belonging

To the holy tribe.

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