The Rolling Dharma

On Rejection of Labels

Yada yada hi dharmasya glanirbhavati bharata Abhythanamadharmasya tadatmanam srijamyaham — Bhagavad Gita (Chapter IV-7)

God’s crown rolls down the statue’s leg The uterus is all that is woman — she proclaims Down the river, dharma seeks labels Here the divine rises like mosquitoes In clusters around monumental deaths

Adharma stares at the sea and the sky; waits a storm He drinks juices from tender, newly broken wells He sucks mud and watches dharma roll from one definition to the next

A crowd roars, “so what” So what if I want to cry on one hand and abuse on the other.

With pride chants — “muh mei ram bagal mei churi” The protesters chant in unison — their new found gospel “MUH MEI RAM BAGAL MEI CHURI !!”

The Gita has no poetic retort to such wisdom It shuts itself and slowly rewrites chapter IV, verse 7

Dharma, the divine oneness that ties us is left wandering faced with one musicless question Who are you? Who is me? Dharma and Adharma recite I am my race, color and gender. You must be Ram. Yada yada hi dharmasya glanir bhavati A statue goes down the river Yada yada hi dharmasya glanir bhavati Dharma is assigned a new label. Religion, morality, queue up.

Adharma is silent, curled up after a heavy meal Where dharma rolls down interminable tar escaping forced identity

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When we refuse to allow the gods(within us) to rise. And when they do, we assign them flags. #poetry #diversity #inclusivity At the cost of being controversial. I am tired of the current wave of speech correction — if you are ‘white’ don’t speak about discrimination. If you are ‘male’ don’t speak about feminism… so on. Dharma and adharma can’t be bound in labels. We are eventually all built to undo adharma if we realise our dharma and stop being entangled in the false music. We all have to rise. Each one. We have to kill the adharma within; thus in the world. Our noise, our chaos, our enlightenment is all linked. The answer is not in playing ball. Abuse and revenge: Revenge and abuse. The answer is wider-deeper-largely colorless.