Hindi poetry on Shiva’s poisoning episode: Neelkanth
That moment
When Dev was also afraid,
And asura too silence.
Carry of sea churning
Humanity
It was spreading in every direction.
Was right,
There was a ruckus,
The universe used to burn in the flame of poison.
That halahal
Whose touch was death
Seeing him
Indra back back,
Vishnu covered silence,
And Brahma turned his eyes closed.
Then he woke up
Shiva.
Neither in a festive posture,
With no miraculous arghya,
Rather
Like a simple monk
Whose eyes had surrender,
And a nice neutrality on the mouth.
Because
They did not want a throne,
Neither praise, nor victory.
They wanted
Peace of creation.
For them
All creatures were equal
Dev, demon, creature, vegetation.
They picked up that poison,
To that halahal
Who could consume everything.
Don’t hesitate,
Neither stopped asking anyone.
Bus
Told inside yourself
That squid form of time.
Throat turned blue
Call Neelkanth.
But the poison remained stuck in the neck,
Neither did he touch the heart,
Neither brain
Because Shiva knew
Where to stop the poison.
They drank they
Which no one could touch
And still
In their eyes
The same bright glow of mercy.
The throat was blue,
But the same heart is clean.
Neelkanth
There is a symbol,
Of that sacrifice
Which is done without any expectation.
That resolution
Which is not spoken by any stage,
Rather
Played in silence.
They are not the gods of the gods
Because they were worshiped,
Rather because
Because they picked up
Which everyone left.
Shiva
They are consciousness
Who says
That when everyone is afraid,
There should be someone then
Who drinks fear,
And still smiled.
They said no
That they saved the world,
They did not promote
That they are heroes
They just
Did his job,
And sat in meditation
As if nothing has happened.
Neelkanth Shiva
He is a silent greatness.
Which does not see, but wears it.
One who burns, does not give heat.
Who drinks,
So that everyone else can live.
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