~~'Nirwaana’/ 'निर्वाण'~~

~~'Nirwaana’/ 'निर्वाण'~~
09042011
© Vinay Vaidya 
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He had been carving out a Buddha,
From a big stone,
When I asked him,
How long it will take ?
And what remuneration,
- shall he be given ?
He smiled and replied,
Oh ! 
It may take the whole Lifetime,
Or more,
But the joy of turning a stone,
- into Buddha,
Is itself an honorarium,
Of it's own kind,
One may hardly repay.
And I know well
What Buddha said;
'Decay is inherent in all composite things'
And this stone is no exception.
But perhaps the stone will remind the people,
Of this truth,
And also the truth,
That if it was once a stone,
And could become Buddha,
And shall be absorbed in Nirwaana,
Why not they ?
One day ?
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