When God Is a Traveller

 

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       This blog is a Sunday reading task activity. 

Arundhathi Subramaniam is an Indian poet, writer, critic, curator, translator, Journalist, writing in English

Arundhathi Subramaniam's volume of poetry, When God is a Traveller was the Season Choice of the Poetry Book Society, shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize. She is the recipient of various awards and fellowships, including the inaugural Khushwant Singh Prize, the Raza Award for Poetry, the Zee Women's Award for Literature, the International Piero Bigongiari Prize in Italy, the Mystic Kalinga award, the Charles Wallace, Visiting Arts and Homi Bhabha Fellowships, among others. Arundhathi has won the Sahitya Akademi Award for When God is a Traveller.

 As prose writer, her books include The Book of Buddha, a bestselling biography of a contemporary mystic, Sadhguru: More Than a Life and most recently, Adiyogi: The Source of Yoga (co-authored with Sadhguru). As editor, her most recent book is the Penguin anthology of sacred poetry, Eating God.

*When God Is a Traveller*

Arundhati Subramaniam

 (wondering about Kartikeya/ Muruga/ Subramania, my namesake)

Trust the god back from his travels, his voice wholegrain (and chamomile), 

his wisdom neem, his peacock, sweaty-plumed, drowsing in the shadows.

 Trust him who sits wordless on park benches listening to the cries of children fading into the dusk, his gaze emptied of vagrancy, his heart of ownership.

Trust him who has seen enough— revolutions, promises, the desperate light of shopping malls, hospital rooms, manifestos, theologies, the iron taste of blood, the great craters in the middle of love. 

Trust him who no longer begrudges his brother his prize, his parents their partisanship. 

Trust him whose race is run, whose journey remains, who stands fluid-stemmed knowing he is the tree that bears fruit, festive with sun.

 

Trust him who recognizes you— auspicious, abundant, battle-scarred, alive— and knows from where you come. 

Trust the god ready to circle the world all over again this time for no reason at all other than to see it through your eyes.

      When we talk about any  god, we have some story or myth  about it. Murgan is god who is son of Shiva and Parvati. He is most worshipping by people of south India. In the myth  we know that  there is race between Muruga (Kartikey) and Ganesh. It is race  of to  travel the world( There are  two to  three different story about this and  there are some  changes in story ). In that  race Ganesh won that  because  he  said that  Parents are  everything,and Shiv and parvati is world for him  so he took around them and that  way  he won. When Muruga return, he saw that  Ganesh is sitting  with  mother and father. So  here in this  poem poet  talk  about  the  travel but  this  travel is different. 

In this  poem poet use the word  Trust  many time, so some  time we feel that poet  wants that  we have to  trust that  God who  come back from the  travel. This  word  shown the prasoic in poem. Because  During the travel  God seen  many  things. This travel  is, he done without  reason. 

In the  Indian  poetic  which is written by  Bharatmuni. He mostly  talk about the  Rasa. For him Rasa is everything in natya. He wrote  Natyashstra. In that  he talked about nine  different  Rasa.