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SATRUNJAYA IN HEART
There are times when we may be outright charmed by a splendour of imagination or a fragrant flower of artistry or poetic expression that is as pretty as a pearl or morning dew. Thus, some time ago I have received a letter from Mrs. Clare Rosenfield from Hartsdale, New York, which contains a poem, a thought-provoking composition with sketches as if reproduced from dreamland. Mrs. Rosenfield's adopted name is ‘Brahmi' who was the saintly daughter of Rsabha, the first Tirthankara. The poem describes the journey of a little boy and his sister to the peak of a mountain where a hermit shows them the way of light and eternity yearned after by even flowers and creepers with their freedom under the blue sky. Srimati Brahmi has stated in her letter that the story and illustrations she made for her children “with Satrunjaya in heart". The poem is no doubt an allegory with its gentle murmurs and a deep resonance in a lonely landscape of feelings where the horizon stretches towards the radiant infinite.
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