Parabels of Mahavir

Author(s): Harindranath Chattopadhyaya
Publisher: Shri Kiran Publishers

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I am created out of the divine stuff of bodilessness. Now, listen ! this day I have the task of interpreting the shining thoughts of Infant Mahavir who, at daybreak completed seven months of existence in the womb of his Mother : Woman of Destiny ! I overheard those shining thoughts which almost blinded my Listening!
(gong is struck ) These were thoughts ; (sound of flute which continues very faintly behind the entire speech of the Infant in the Womb)
I must lie still and unstirring. I shall lie still, unstirring : like to a pebble at the bottom of a deep deep well; like to a pearl inside an oyster at the bottom of a deep deep ocean; like to an egg inside a nest which, to the unborn bird, must seem deep, deep, deep, I shall lie still and unstirring, like to a yogi throned at the bottom of deep