Parabels of Mahavir

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

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There is but Oneness beyond time, place and space; and it is a Void that stirs not; a Void which has swallowed stillness which has swallowed itself. I am that Void.
But who may he be who comes hither bearing a sheet of crystal glow in his hands?
(A big cloud passes overhead, a sheet of lightning flashes across the air and the cloud vanishes leaving behind a lavender-hued light on the stage)
INDRA (appears with a sheet of crystal-a cloth which seems woven of moon-beams)
I am Indra....
Behold; this cloth of crystalline glow have I brought to cover up and grow part of Your shining nakedness, itself the raiment
angels wear when things are born.
VOICE (from somewhere)
I am as naked as a gem
And as a cloud or tree :
When things are born the angels wear
This nakedness of me.
(INDRA goes out)