Silent Soil

Author(s): Vidyasagar Acharya
Publisher: Bhagwan Rishabhdev Granthmala

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The canvas of the fourth section is too wide and the story contexts are so many that giving their summary is difficult. The pitcher has been heated in the kiln for many days. The potter comes near the kiln:
'The kusalata (well-being) of the pitcher is my kusalata (proficiency),
saying thus the potter
welcomes the kiln joyfully,
and taking a spade in hand removes
the sandy ashes lying on the chest of the
kiln,
as the ashes get removed
so does the curiosity of the potter increases as to
when does the safe pot becomes visible (298)
And, takes out the baked, heated pitcher, joyfully. The potter has given this pitcher in the hands of the servant of the Seth having faith that the feet of the Guru (preacher) may be washed by the water filled in it, thirst may be quenched. Before taking away the servant examines it again and again and raises sound from it whose meaning resounds in the poet's mind like this: -
sa.. re.. ga.. ma.. that is sare gama (all sorts of sorrows)
pa... dha.. that is pada (position, nature)
and ni that is not,
sorrow cannot be the nature of the soul, it is only an indisposed, contrary mode
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