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MOTHER ( seeming to listen, spellbound, to the
Infant inside ) (rapturously) Do you know what he is saying ? do you know what my son is saying ?
SIDDHARTH Your son ?
MOTHER Our son.
SUDARSHANA But Mother ! how do you know it is a son and not a daughter.
NANDI VARDHAN How do you know it is not a sister but a brother who is coming to meet me ?
MOTHER I have seen him. He is clearer to me than daylight ever was ! I see his form; his features; the light of the universe is in his face Listen ! he is saying something; let me tell you what he is saying (recorded speech on tape) ( the Mother sits while tanpuras resound) They love me with love before which the ocean shrinks to a drop; and a firmament of planets to a mere glowwormthrob. And such love they bear for me even before they have seen me. Would not their
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