Triveni Journal
1927 | 11,233,916 words
Triveni is a journal dedicated to ancient Indian culture, history, philosophy, art, spirituality, music and all sorts of literature. Triveni was founded at Madras in 1927 and since that time various authors have donated their creativity in the form of articles, covering many aspects of public life....
Voice ofthe Buddha
All ofa sudden the wind freshened up, throwing the trees into utter confusion, so that their tops waved furiously like the heads ofdemons at daggers drawn.
Then there was a pause, akin to the air ofexpectancy at dawn.
A solitary cloud in the sky assumed the aspect of the shining one.
The leaves rustled in rejoicing at His coming. Their resonance sounded like the chanting of“Victory to Thee!” “Victory toThee!”
Soon after silence supervened.
And in my soul’s vision, I saw the Compassionate One, sitting on an ochre-aspected seat and the ochre-robed pilgrims around in the shape ofa lucky horse-shoe.
Lo ! there was a whirl of the golden wheel.
He opened His smile-lit lips and exclaimed in a silvery voice:
“Children of the Light, let your souls canticle be, constant compassion to the foolish, the fanatical and the fratricidal. For, the passions ofignorance, arrogance and anger and avarice can be conquered only by amity and association of understanding.”
The wheel ceased whirling.
The Compassionate One rose to depart.
The pilgrims bent and bowed in salutation. And as their illumined eyes espied Him returning to His Himalayan Home, their hearts burst out into the ecstatic exclamation, “Victory to Thee!” “Victory to Thee!”