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About The Book The SilentEarth Mukamati An incomparable literary creative work, The Silent Earth(Mukamati) presents essentially the religious philosophy and spiritualism in agraceful poetic style, endowing a new dimension to poetic creativity. It is thesplendour of the poetic genius of the saint-poet Acharya Vidyasagarji, that hehas adopted the submissive, trampled and troubled thing like ‘Soil’ (Mati) asthe subject matter of his Epic poem ‘Mokmati’. He has bestowed a voice to itssilent painfulness and its eagerness to achieve emancipations. Havingrecognized the eternal and magnificent existence of the ‘Soil’, thePotter-artisan (Kumbhakara), after crushing and sifting it and removing all theimpurities makes it worthy of creating his crafts. The potter provides shape tothe lump of ‘Soil’ in his wheel and burns the craft in a furnace in such a wayso as to make it a ‘Sacred Pitcher’ worthy of worship and adoration. This Epicpoem is a grand metaphor of the journey of ‘liberation of soul’ from the karmicbondage while advancing towards the stage of perfect purification. The gracefulfigures of speech, the art of story-telling, the dramatic effects of the livingand soul-searching conversations by the ‘characters’, which are supposed to belifeless, the establishment of the desired spiritual sense by piercing throughthe layers of word-usage are all instilled within the folds of this magnificentcreative work. This English translation ‘The Silent Earth’ of the Epic poem’Mukamati’ is thus presented to our esteemed readers. About The Author LalChandra Jain Birth: July 02, 1934, Lalitpur (U.P.) Education: M.A. (HindiLiterature), L.T. Vocation: Hindi Lecturer for 38 years, at Shree Varni JainInter College, Lalitpur. Presently, active senior member of Saras SahityaSangam, Lalitpur. Published Works: 1. Hindi Version of ‘Jainism’- a book bySmt. Dr. Annie Besant, a famous British Authoress; 2. ‘The Silent Earth’ anEnglish version of the Hindi Epic poem ‘Mukamati’ by Acharya VidyasagarMaharaj; 3. ‘Kalyan Kalpadrum’ (poetry): Hindi version of a famous Sanskrithymn; 4. ‘Bhaktamar Stotra’ (poetry): Hindi version of a famous Sanskrit hymn.Five collections of his original Hindi poems.
