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MIRA AND MAHAVIR
SCENE III.
Time: Next Morning.
(Mira and Mahavir are sitting opposite each other. Mira is quiet and thoughtful, Mahavir a little excited.) MAHAVIR How did you sleep last night? I had a strange dream.
MIRA-SO had I.
MAHAVIR-I do not believe in dreams; but this was a most wonderful thing. I can hardly explain. You have so often told me of Krishna, but I have not cared; but last night I saw something which I can never forget. It was really Krishna-with his flute and peacock-feathered crown, his garlands and amber-coloured dress-his eyes so soft and tender and so deep; his voice so thrilling and so sweet.
If the splendour of a thousand suns
At once should rise up in the skyThat would indeed be like the light And glory of that mighty One.
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This was not a dream. It was something most strange and wonderful. I have written down what I saw and heard, and you can see it. Did I say I did not believe in the existence of God? I am a very different person now. Nature can give you beauty, strength-even knowledge and life, if you please; but not goodness, and permanent happiness; and it is these that we seek through all our actions,
