Radha’s Prem -Sivanand 41

Radha’s Prem -Swami Sivananda

Scene 4

Act 1

Jnana Dev: Then? Murkha Raj: I adjust the sensitive plate. Every thing is now ready for the “shooting”. Jnana Dev: Oh! Don’t shoot me! Murkha Raj: No, no, I won’t kill you. Don’t be afraid! When I have put the sensitive plate in, I warn the man not to shake. Now, don’t shake! Steady please!Now I have taken your photograph. I will say in the customary way “Thank you”! Jnana Dev: Supposing I moved a bit when you “clicked”? Murkha Raj: The photo will not be well defined. Jnana Dev: Suppose a person who was not steady before exposure, makes himself steady at the time of the exposure? Murkha Raj: His photo will be all right. Jnana Dev: You yourself have got an answer to the question you put! Murkha Raj: Well.....Yes. I now understand it. But why should a man utter the Mantra always? Is it not enough to utter it once at the time of death only. Jnana Dev: Well asked. That would make it easy, wouldn’t it? But this Divine Photographer, unlike the mundane one, does not shout “Ready please”. We don’t know when we will hear the click of the camera. So we have to be ever ready. Any moment the photo may be taken. Be always alert so that whenever you have to leave the body you will do so with His Name on your lips. The Name purifies. The Name ennobles. The Name softens the heart. The Name removes all sins. Utter His Name with full faith, devotion and feeling once and you are freed from all sins.