Ms Neelam Saxena Chandra
(Ms. Neelam Saxena Chandra ji is a well-known author. She has been honoured with many international/national/ regional level awards. We are extremely thankful to Ms. Neelam ji for permitting us to share her excellent poems with our readers. We will be sharing her poems on every Thursday. Ms. Neelam Saxena Chandra ji is an Additional Divisional Railway Manager, Indian Railways, Pune Division. Her beloved genre is poetry. Today we present her poem “Arjun receives Brahmasiras ”. )
☆ Weekly column ☆ Poetic World of Ms. Neelam Saxena Chandra # 41 ☆
☆ Arjun receives Brahmasiras ☆
To the bank of the sacred river Ganga
Drona and his disciple Kuru Princes went one day
As Drona entered the water to bathe
A crocodile grabbed him to everyone’s utter dismay
Caught him fiercely and strongly by his thigh
And although he knew how to himself set free
Yet, he summoned all his disciples and yelled,
“From this monster, oh please do save me!”
Bewildered the other princes stood
But Arjun quickly aimed at the crocodile;
Five arrows he fired in quick succession
Before the others could, to the facts reconcile.
Embracing his pupil Arjun in delight,
Granted him the missile nonpareil and unique.
With a silent mind and body he accepted
Brahmashiras, along with secrets of its use mystique.
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Based on the mythology of Mahabharata, Neelam Saxena has beautifully portrayed the incident of Guru Dronacharya’s testing of his disciples and awarding Brahmastra to his beloved shishya who had the presence of mind and skill in archery to kill the crocodile and save his Guru. The reader is presented with the dramatic image of the incident. The reader flows with the magic of the poem and does not stop till he/she has comes to the end of the poem. Then there comes the curiosity to go and read it in the original epic. This is the real magic behind the… Read more »