RAINBOW IN A
TEAR-DROP
Dr. SANJIVA DEV
No drop
Is more sacred
More fragrant
More vagrant yet solemn
Than a tear-drop;
It is the fluid manifestation
Of the agony and ecstasy within;
Agony and ecstasy
Are the internal responses
To certain external stimuli;
A tear-drop
Is again an external response
To the internal stimuli
Of agony and ecstasy.
A tear-drop
Is a liquid pearl
In which is visible
The rainbow
The rainbow of the psyche;
To those who see the form of a tear-drop
Is not the rainbow visible?
It is visible to those alone
Who see the interior of the tear-drop.
The rainbow in the tear-drop
Is the reflection
Of the emotions and intuitions
Of the aspirations and inspirations
Emanating out of the unconscious,
Out of the conscious and the superconscious;
The rainbow appearing over the clouds
Is but an ephemeral reflection
Of the rainbow radiant in the tear-drop.
The entire cosmos reflects
In the rainbow of the tear-drop
Since the cosmos is constituted
Of the tear-drops of the primeval Void–
The Void that existed
Before the cosmos had come into existence;
This rainbow lay
In the disguise of the Void
In the pre-creation chaos;
It entered the tear-drop
With the advent of the psyche
In the life of man.
To perceive the rainbow in a tear-drop
Is to turn humane from human
Is to transcend every known limitation
Is to revel in the realm
Of light, love and delight,
Is to dwell on the plane
Of awakened awareness
Rejoicing in fraternity liberty equality.