स्वामी संवित् सोमगिरि की कविताएं
Summary
The text presents a series of poetic reflections on the rocky formations of Mount Arbuda, describing them as volcanic stones born from ancient lava flows. The first poem addresses each stone as a "currency" or "seal" of the mother goddess Arbudaamba, suggesting that these rocks emerged from deep within the earth, boiling and surging with new forms. They are portrayed as having once been molten and explosive, binding the wind with heated breaths, before cooling into silent, still stone. Yet, even in their stillness, they continue to flow through dimensions of time and name, humming the great silence of the goddess and telling her story to the dawn. The second poem focuses on the dark, feminine rocks seen at every turn of the Arbuda mountain. These stones are described as black buds that bloom from their own hard compression, revealing their motherhood. They call to the observer, inviting immersion into their resonant depths and self-vortices, acting as silent maternal figures. The third poem depicts these dark rocks in the twilight, releasing their heat into the darkening light. They become absorbed in their own rough textures, plunging the observer into deep memories of their fiery birth. The lava within them urges the poet to flow as well, and then to become still like stone, achieving liberation through silence. The text concludes with a factual note that the rocks of Arbuda mountain are igneous, formed from solidified lava from a volcano.
Conclusion
The poem sequence "Arbud-Shila" uses the geological reality of Mount Abu's volcanic basalt as a profound metaphor for spiritual transformation and maternal divinity. The implications are that even the most hardened, cooled lava—representing solidified emotions or past trauma—still carries the latent heat of its fiery origin, capable of guiding the seeker toward liberation. The outcome is a redefinition of silence and stillness not as emptiness, but as a powerful, resonant presence that sings the "great silence" of the Mother. The poet is drawn into this maternal embrace, where the stones become active teachers, urging him to flow like lava and then achieve freedom through becoming stone himself. Ultimately, the document suggests that true spiritual awakening involves recognizing the divine feminine in the most ancient, unyielding forms of nature, and that liberation is found not by escaping matter, but by fully inhabiting and understanding its primordial, molten memory.