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To the Morning Star of Jain Firmament
Jagdish Prasad Jain, M. A.
O, flash of wisdom!
Shimmering through the vapoury ignorance,
Enlightened
The bewailing human hearts
Into the dungeon horrible:
A drop of nectar, shook
Trickling down the earth from Heaven's eye,
Parried, shone on petals,
Of everblooming thirst of Passion", Extinguished He like true hero, And preached
In guise of the greatest Jain saint, "How soul is entangled
Round the twig of knotty Illusion,
To enfranchise the soul like dove
From well-built, barred, enchanted cage,
Man ought to extinguish
The burning rod of anguish
In multitude
The offspring of actions"
That action is the root
Of its disguise in numerous forms
Sometimes in heaven, sometimes on earth,
