"If merely washing clothes can wear down
something as hard as stone, surely my thick, numb, stupid mind can also be worn
through," he said.
Kalidas prayed that this
possibility be so. He prayed to the Lord, thinking of the Lord as his divine mother. She
appeared to him and bestowed a blessing on his thick head. His stammering tongue was
freed, his mind became clear, and his deep heart became unblocked. He became the most
eloquent and brilliant poet in Indian history. Kalidas is considered the Shakespeare of
India.
Worth thinking about, isn’t it? A man who couldn’t saw the branch off a tree
intelligently became legendary for the subtlety of his mind.
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