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Phone, fax, freeze, flat, fan, fiat; I considered them as things of happiness.
Glimpses of Sentiments
Several times I reached at the feet of money, family, prestige, wife, son, fortune and position.
I considered these as roots of happiness: physique, fame gold, women, activities.
I believed these as things for happiness: my name, my photographs, my nature, my awe, my false pride.
I also went for happiness to the feet of trickeries, illusions, intensive desires, amassing materialistic wealth.
To gain happiness, I was corrupted in my virtues and got myself encircled by evils.
But all those supports, all those feet, in reality, themselves were without any support and they were quite shaky.
How could they become my supports or place of surrender?
I just could not get hold of anything after gaining which no unhappiness could come; such limitless, timeless happiness | just could not derive by holding many, many things.
Happiness ~ of false pride, illusory, only imaginative I tasted, like one tasting the sky.
No desire got fulfilled.
I was roasted in the fire of innumerable desires.
Oh Lord! Now you, become my real support from your heart, forever.
Hold my hand.
Receive me falling down.
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