The Silent Earth (Mukamati)

The Silent Earth Mūkamäti An incomparable literary creative work, The Silent Earth (Mukamati) presents essentially the religious philosophy and spiritualism in a graceful poetic style, endowing a new dimension to poetic creativity. It is the splendour of the poetic genius of the saint- poet Acharya Vidyasagarji, that he has adopted the submissive, trampled and troubled thing like 'Soil' (Mati) as the subject matter of his Epic poem 'Mokmati'. He has bestowed a voice to its silent painfulness and its eagerness to achieve emancipations. Having recognized the eternal and magnificent existence of the 'Soil', the Potter-artisan (Kumbhakara), after crushing and sifting it and removing all the impurities makes it worthy of creating his crafts. The potter provides shape to the lump of 'Soil' in his wheel and burns the craft in a furnace in such a way so as to make it a 'Sacred Pitcher' worthy of worship and adoration. This Epic poem is a grand metaphor of the journey of 'liberation of soul' from the karmic bondage while advancing towards the stage of perfect purification. The graceful figures of speech, the art of story- telling, the dramatic effects of the living and soul- searching conversations by the 'characters', which are supposed to be lifeless, the establishment of the desired spiritual sense by piercing through the layers of word-usage are all instilled within the folds of this magnificent creative work. This English translation 'The Silent Earth' of the Epic poem 'Mukamati' is thus presented to our esteemed readers.