The Jaina And His Jainism Poem by Bijay Kant Dubey

The Jaina And His Jainism



O, you tell me about the Jainas and their Jainism,
Lord Mahavira and his Jainism,
Born to King Sidhartha and Queen Trishala
At Kundalagrama (modern Hajipur) ,
The Licchavi crown prince from Vaishali,
Had been virtuous
And earthly possessions could not tempt him
And he renouncing the life of worldly pleasures and attraction
And taking to the recourse of austere sadhna
Rarely to be seen in the history of man
And attaining his siddhi
Under a shal tree
The Jina, the victorious one over attachment and aversion,
The one telling of
Non-violence, truthfulness and self-control in such a way!

The Lord in meditation under a tree,
Doing austere sadhna
For the attainment of knowledge,
Renouncing the world,
But none telling about the pains
Of Yasoda and Priyadarshana,
The internal pains of the wife and the daughter
As the father on a greater mission no doubt,
But the prince not
Into the bonds of maya-moha,
Going the way of his own,
Consolidating the foundation-stone of
The Jains and Jaininsm,
As he is the 24th Tirthankara,
Carrying the message of the lineage
Of the great ascetics.

Lord Mahavira in meditation,
Seated under a tree,
In a posture of his own
With the hands on the knees,
Sitting cross-legged
And the body straight upwards
But the eyes closed
And he lost in a sadhna,
The posture artistic
Which the stone statues trying to capture them,
As the relics of artistic excellence.

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