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The Bindu and Raza

byKeki Daruwalla
July 23, 2021
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SH Raza, from ‘Bindu’ series

The Bindu and Raza

The Bindu is amphibian , moving up
the well of consciousness,
its hundred lives  dredged from the ages
or from  mystic or non- mystic states
in which the bindu was caught up.
The ages don’t have a sure foothold themselves, are mixed up,
falling over each other as they grapple with this circular
primordial bit from the past.
It changes colour, substance, scale and squats in front
and tells you gently to meditate: both are meditating
Bindu and Raza.
Now it has turned into a small circular bit
of granite, with its veins
running through the history of the planet;
it is not scabrous but  is plain and rough
till the waters of the past and waters
of myths run over it and add lustre
till bindu is Brahma
and all else is blotted out.

 

 

SH Raza, from ‘Bindu’ series
SH Raza, from ‘Bindu’ series
First published in The Beacon.
Keki Daruwalla writes poetry and fiction. His novel Ancestral Affairs was published in 2015 by Harper Collins. He won the Commonwealth Poetry Award (Asia) for his poetry volume Landscapes. He lives in Delhi.

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