Jain Journal 1988 07

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

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JAIN JOURNAL
On this brief page, let be His echoing word.
"Simples, ye at His feet in trust of Him, Now hear the root of His trustworthiness. 'Twas your forebears' wails that drilled His ear With the selfhood of the martyrs to His feast. ...Pool of blood, Himself sinking Of His damnable greed, what solace a bride ?... Thus was this prince recast into truth-seeker. So rises His debt to ye heirs of wailers, bygone Beyond reach in the grasslands of heaven --Yea, a simple fodder for a simple grasp Of an aspect of truth to ease ye."
"Every living thing has its own soul. Ye have your own soul. A time ago, your soul was pure joy. To pure joy, your soul may return. And when may return ye to pure joy ? -When ye lose body-attachment, For then ye gain soul-insight. And pure, equal soul is pure, equal joy. 'Tis so, 'tis so for every living thing."
"O joy joy O! His pledge To ye at His feet : Your first after-death eye Shall bring to sight your own eternal soul. And to ye animals on the horizons of tomorrow, Be hopeful. Mid sky-fires upon even themselves Come gentle persons in service to bloodless diet, And to Harmlessness, the Highest Religion."
... And now blooms a lotus of silence, As to another needful space drifts His echo. Yet behold, His holy echo taking form In foods of the few, the truly merciful few. ... Whilst round this bloody-minded world, Deathy eye of the food-animals rolls up To the Jina Aristanemi, and to His pledge In stone that cannot crumble... IN JAINA TRUTH, YE ARE EVERLIVING.