Jain Journal 1982 01

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

Page 7

JANUARY, 1982
'Of course! Songs were sung.' She said laughing. Then she added, 'Sweeter, richer and more melodious.'
Thavaraccaputra instantly ran to the terrace. Standing by the side of the railing he again paid attention to that song.
Thavaraccaputra was thinking something at that time. Probably he was thinking, when a child was born how the people were moved with happiness.
But no, it was not that song hearing which he went down. Where was that sweetness in it? Where was that dreamlike lilt? It was coming out as if from a bleeding heart. It brought tears to his eyes.
Thavaraccaputra's gaze now glued to the firmament. A moon beam of the fairy world, he felt, was mildly glowing all over the sky. Still it appeared to him that peace was no more there, a painful realisation coming out from the depth of his heart had given the air an expression of lament and tears.
Question arose in his heart again : What had happened in the meanwhile that everything had changed in a moment? Those people must be now singing a very different song. He again ran down to his mother.
He saw his mother was sitting on the earth. Big drops of tears were rolling down her cheeks. Thavaraccaputra cried, 'Mother!
As she looked at him by raising her eyes she tried quickly to wipe out her tears but could not do so fully. Drops of tears at the corner of her eyes still mournfully sparkled in the light of the lamp. Thavaraccaputra stood silent looking at that. Instantly his mother understood what was in his mind. So affectionately she drew him near and clasped him in her bosom. She said, 'Why that song is not there—this you want to know?' Then she said slowly, 'That child has just gone away, leaving us all behind.'
Have gone away? Why? Where? Why they have allowed him to go? When he will return? Questions like these he put to his mother.
Hearing these questions his mother began to laugh even in tears. 'You mad.' she said with deep comprehension and affection.