Prof. Malashri’s evocative poem on DifferentTruths.com captures a soul’s profound surrender and spiritual healing within the sanctuary of the divine.
The monastery is You
clad in gold
and raiment of yellow and red.
Your eyes hold me prisoner
and pierce further into my stygian heart
scarred by betrayals and battered by grief.
You urge my eyes to look around me
at the sculptures depicting
illness, suffering and death.
But you are smiling
and my heart is eased
in your gleaming Simplicity
Trying to erase my dreary darkness
I sink into a shashtang pranam
and surrender.
Picture design by Anumita Roy
Prof Malashri Lal, with twenty-six books, retired as Professor, English Department, University of Delhi. Publications include Tagore and the Feminine and The Law of the Threshold. Co-edited with Namita Gokhale is the ‘goddess trilogy’ on Sita, Radha, and Lakshmi, as well as Betrayed by Hope, which received the Kalinga Fiction Award. Lal’s poetry collections are Mandalas of Time, shortlisted for the Tagore Literary Prize, and the recent book Signing in the Air. Honours include the prestigious ‘Maharani Gayatri Devi Award for Women’s Excellence’ and the SETU Award of Excellence. She is our Global Consultant Editor.
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