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Silent Soil
An incomparable work giving new dimension to the poetical exercise incorporating the essence of religion, philosophy and spiritualism in the modern language and the beautiful mode of free verse. This is the miracle of the poetical brilliance of Acharya Shri Vidyasagarji that he made an innocent, down-trodden and miserable a thing like the soil the object of the epic and gave voice to its silent pain and wish for liberation. The craftsman potter realising the permanent and promising existence of the soil gave it the benefit of caste of clean softness by powdering and sieving it and thus removing the hybrid stones. Then putting on the disc, heating in the kiln he has taken it to such a stage where becoming an auspicious pitcher of worship it obtains the meaning fulness of life. This epic is an allegory of the progressing stages of a bound soul on the journey of liberation. The beauty of figures of speech, story like pleasantness, dramatic mode of living and penetrating dialogue of the characters taken as lifeless and the establishment of the spiritual sense piercing the layers of the words-this all has merged in this work where we get a new vision to understand our own and mankind's future and a new insight to ponder over/assimilate the read and the heard.
Present here is an English translation of the unique work of modern Hindi poetical literature.
