Jain Journal 1975 10

Author(s): Jain Bhawan Publication
Publisher: Jain Bhawan Publication

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Into that deep lake. Yesternight I looked at it intensely and for long. Its precious stones were radiating with brilliance like the seventeenth constellation-Anuradha. The rays radiating from the precious stones seemed to strangle my throat from all sides. So I threw that necklace outside this window into that lake.
Oh, what a beautiful necklace that was. Each gem in it was priceless. My father travelled all the way to the Treasure Island to acquire that necklace for you.
A thing may be priceless and yet be of no value. It all depends upon the objective with which you look at it. A thing really belongs to the place from whence it came. The gems of purest ray serene that came from the bottom of the sea must return to their rest there.
The logical sequence of your reasoning is that I too must return to my parents from whence I came. ] am very much upset. If this be your thesis, you can abandon me also some day.
Yes, Yashoda, everything has to be abandoned one by one. Power and pelf, beauty and charm perish with time. Truth alone survives. The world around us begets inquisitiveness; inquisitiveness leads to knowledge, knowledge gives wisdom; and wisdom teaches truth. It is the knowledge of truth that abides till the end. As an able archer can split the hair from his arrow; so can the seeker reach the truth by penetrating into the essence of things.
Oh, my Lord ?
As water empties out of folded hands drop by drop, the years of our life pass one by one. As a gust of wind scatters dry leaves, power and majesty vanish before time.
Lord Parshvanath must have preached as you do.
In this context Lord Parshvanath also said that death takes away life in one single blow as a torrent of water washes away a bamboo bridge.