Omnipresent Deodorized Dog-shit

Dr. Nilanshu Kumar Agarwal
    O deodorized dog-shit!
    You are all-pervasive.
    O omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent power!
    I eulogize your high tower.
    Present in every aspect of human life.
    Breath and finer spirit of all knowledge.
    O, what a pantheism!
    You are the supreme self.
    Neti Neti!*
    Thus spake the Acharya.**
    The disciple confused, perplexed and bewildered!
    Anxiety engulfs him.
    Curiosity continues.
    He enquired and the Shruti*** tradition continued.
    My limbs become languid
    And my mouth becomes completely dry.****
    Remove the dark mists of avidya.*****
    Spread the light of Vidya.******
    Quench my inquisitive thirst, please !
    How is dog –shit transcendental reality?
    Touching Guru’s .*******feet, the curious student asked-
    For years I have crammed and crammed and crammed-
    Supreme Reality is one.
    Sang panegyrics in its deification.
    So celestial was the temperament.
    You have shattered His domain in one stoke.
    What is it, Sir?
    I don’t understand your polemics.
    The Guru surprised.
    The Guru wonderstruck.
    The Guru said mildly,
    “I like the perfect compound of doubt and faith I you”.
    Of course deodorized dog-shit is all-pervasive.
    It is present everywhere.
    Where, where?
    In the deodorants sprinkled in the dirty armpits.
    In the lipsticks pasted on wrinkled lips.
    In the dyed hair, polished nails, branded tops and tight trousers.
    Something more,
    Something more, Sir!
    Everywhere is it present.
    The smiling faces of the stony hearts.
    The grave expressions of the casual.
    The world is so dusty.
    Vice paramount principle.
    Primal sex dominant passion.
    But, we like curtains.
    Stinking dog-shit is deodorized.
    We can not bear too much reality.
    We are in illusion.
    So Birthday wishes,
    So marriage feasts,
    So, funeral lamentations,
    Though the heart as poisonous as the viper.
    Hey! Come on, be ready!
    Make the dog-shit as odorous as possible.
    Let it be filthy and stinking.
    Remove all curtains.
    Break all masks.
    Come out of your artificial self.
    Eradicate all hypocrisy of civilization.
    Let there be spontaneous overflow of powerful emotions.
    Disrobe yourself
    And feel the pulse of life emotionally,
    As there is more enterprise in walking naked.
     
     
    * Neti Neti :A maxim of the Upanishads(holy texts of India), signifying the fact that the Supreme Reality is omniscient, omnipresent and omnipotent.
     
    ** Acharya :Teacher
     
    *** Shruti :As per ancient Indian system of teaching, knowledge should be transferred from the teacher to the taught through oral tradition. This is Shruti.Vedas were also called by this name.
     
    **** My limbs become languid
    And my mouth becomes completely dry.
    These two lines refer to Swami Gambhirananda’s translation of Bhagwadgita (1.28).
     
    ***** avidya :Ignorance
     
    ******Vidya: Knowledge
    *******Guru: Teacher
    
Dr. Nilanshu Kumar Agarwal - Dr.Nilanshu Kumar Agarwal was born on 19th of February,1973. The son of a college Professor at Allahabad, Dr.Agarwal is currently Senior Lecturer in English at Feroze Gandhi College, Rae Bareli, (U.P.) , India. He was awarded D.Phil Degree by Allahabad University for his doctoral dissertation, entitled “T.S.Eliot’s Poetry In The Light Of His Critical Thoughts”.
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