My Village Part 2 As you step in

My Village

Part 2

As you step in

 

It is must

that you will wash your feet dust

while wading through water

to reach the boat to crossover

and then while walking over sand

to reach the mainland

and then catches your eye

a papal tree plump and high

worshipped over generations.

Reasons are worth millions.

After river bathe

ladies pour with faith

water at its root portion

lying prostrate in propitiation.

Adjacent to it, is a banyan tree

Underneath Baraigoswain, the lord, worship we

Here every year since generations

when crops are left to grow on their own

in the sacred month of Kartik for a week

nonstop is cited the sacred Bhagwat, the greatest epic

Men women flock to listen to with unflinching devotion

forgetting their materialistic aspirations

and leaving their earthly burden

at home to mend on its own.

After half mile another banyan tree

at its base, the Goddess of the village, you will see

From evil spell and evil spirit, protects she, the village

Worshipped is she first, to bless before each marriage.

Besides these the villagers with full devotion

practiced the customs of adorations as in Hindu religions.

The village cakes with rice, coconut, and cheese after butter

prepared on such sacred occasions always tastes far superior

the earthen pot cooking behind it ardent love and affection

surely contributed to their good health unaware of medication.

Some may laugh at their worships taking those as superstition

or lack of wisdom, backwardness or narrow visions because of isolation

but the contentment and happiness they derived on their own.

with a leaf, a root, a fruit, prescribed by elders

they remained healthy and hearty devoid of pain and tears.

Thus illustrate I with an example

the laborer at jute extraction as a proof ample

To extract jute from its rotten cane they have to stay in the awful pond for many hours

with a smile, without grumble with a river bathe they retained their vigor and power.

 

 

(P K Routray

in the service of Lord)

 

 

(As a continuation to my first pat of my village this the second part taking the reader to then-existing scenarios. Baraigoswain is an incarnation of Lord. In Hindu both form and formless incarnations of the Lord are worshipped.)