The Ascent

A mountain side afire Crimsonness aflame Seated Mother drowned in your thought The flame of forest I am A perineal* flow of molten lava That weaves serpent-like Breathing heat and fire alike That is how You begin Raising Your head Answering the call The call of my Immortality! Thunder claps aloud Lightning streaks the skies It rains on the peaks Setting rivers in rage Down abdominal foothills Mother, I am A deluge Of joy nonpareil Electric, ecstatic That is how you move Answering the call The call of my Immortality! The earth splits apart To show her mines Of dazzling gold and gems Mother, I am Your red robe sprinkled With golden dots Covering the navel That upholds Creation from dust to stars That is how you smile Answering the call The call of my Immortality! Heart beats a rhythm As sanguine turns The skies around Into vastness unbound Rosy redness I am Where I borrow the hue There you are Humbling the damsel dawn In her blushful sheen Answering the call The call of my Immortality! Air sings your glory Tunnels of light awake Up the bronchial paths As sounds of music play Distant anklets clank A sky of quiet I am Drowned in a joyous brood That the breeze soothes Into sky-like evanescence That is your ascent, Answering the call The call of my Immortality! A temple zooms upward As space stands aghast Time loses her support Events come to naught A boundless beauty dawns On the temple heart There You are! Mother of all! Seated on a matchless throne Fondling the strings Of my being on your lap To play an eternal note Answering the call The call of my Immortality! Galaxies in spate Glitter the crown That adorns a forehead Where countless skies Find at last their resting place Light-years without a count Lose their way Listening to an immortal lullaby And seeking their essence In the moist eyes Oceans of kindness Mother, You are Seated on the Lotus Of a thousand petals All crimson red Like a sunset That human eyes Have never ever beheld There You are! Mother! My own Immortality! Vanquished distance cries With time undone In the ocean Of your magnificence Of unsurpassed shine Unwanted are the eyes To know it all In me the fullest thing For You are the One Brittle mortality beheld So far with a wrinkled mind And blinded eyes As it did a distant star In the wilderness of the skies With your ascent now made You have never been Other than the unknowing me Mindless, formless here I burn A speck of camphor at your Feet In an endless flame That never can be Other than You, my Immortality _______ * Perineal = Of the perineum corresponding to the first circle of Kundalini (mUlAdhAra cakra) P.S.: This was written in July 2005. I am no Kundalini expert. This is just a poetic visualization of the rise of Kundalini through the six circles (cakrA-s) of the body.