Day 4 -The cursed flower

The irony of ideals from cosmos

Forbidding a fragrant flower

Being offered to the auspicious one

Yet used to enliven the soul and senses.

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The fate of a cream-colored flower

Foredoomed by the supreme divinity

A very dear to Lord Shiva

Succumbed to deception betwixt wrangle.

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Lord Vishnu coveted internal happiness

Lord Brahma, to eliminate the desires

A contention fueled up and arose between the deities

With Lord Shiva addressed as the arbiter.

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Mahakala, appeared as Jyotirmaya Linga

Asked the ever-victorious Anantajeet and the Creator

To seek the beginning and end of Linga

With threads of hope the deities advanced.

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Adeep, the Lord of Light doomed and foiled

Neared Jagadisha in obeisance

In the cloudy adobe, pure and ecstatic

Perceived Shiva as the Swaroopa of Brahmaand.

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Ketaki flower, naïve and pleasant

Floated aimlessly in the carousel around Linga

Trideva persevered afore his ego

Solicited the bloom into bearing false witness.

The perjurer however had to pay a price

Shiva’s vexation cursed Lord Brahma

 Of not being worshipped in temples anymore

The floweret will not be used as worship to gods.

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The love of Shiva for floret

Now turned into a disparaging disgrace

But as sunlight skimmed across universe

Pleads of Ketaki were contemplated.

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The beautiful monsoon flower

Got back its praise and amour

Harmonize, sweet and silently buoyant

Although hinderances, Ketaki was joyful and pious afresh.

Glossary-

Anantajeet – Lord Vishnu

Swaroopa- Form of the creator of universe ,Lord Shiva

Creator – Lord Brahma

Mahakala – Lord Shiva

Adeep, Lord of Light – Lord Vishnu

Jagadisha- Lord Shiva

Trideva- Lord Brahma

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