Pandit Sukhlalji Parichay tatha Anjali

Author(s): Pandit Sukhlalji Sanman Samiti
Publisher: Pandit Sukhlalji Sanman Samiti
Catalog link: https://jainqq.org/explore/010642/1

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paMDita sukhalAlajI paricaya tathA aMjali TOP prakAzaka paNDita sukhalAlajI sanmAna samiti gujarAta vidyAsabhA, bhadra ahamadAbAda

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sanmAna - :prakAzaka : zrIdalasukhabhAI mAlavaNiyA, maMtrI, paNDita sukhalAlajI sanmAna samiti, gujarAta vidyAsabhA, bhadra ahamadAvAda : mudraka : jayaMtI dalAla : vasaMta prinTiMga presa : ghIkAMTA ghelAbhAInI vAsI : ahamadAbAda I.. sa. . 1.957

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- 4 .. . . .. ... . - - .. .. . sa . . . 41 . ni 4 - 7 .... A . . ta . ..:. 4. . M aitri Sum - :: .. - M .. . .. ...' .. . . .. .... "6331 ni . .. ... . h . .. OM Motin REAM ASIA -- - - paMDita sukhalAlajI (tA. 8-12-1955)

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paMDita sukhalAlajI [saMkSipta paricaya]

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saccassa ANAe uvahie se mehAvI mAraM tarai / -satyakI AjJA para khar3A huA buddhimAna mRtyuko pAra kara jAtA hai / --zrI AcArAMgasUtra /

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EKAtul - eziyA mahAdvIpa sadA hI dharmapravartakoM, tattvaciMtakoM aura sAdhakoMkI janmabhUmi rahA hai / isa mahAgauravako nibhAye rakhanekA zreya vizeSataH bhAratavarSako hai| purANayugameM bhagavAna rAmacaMdra aura karmayogI zrIkRSNa, itihAsakAlameM bhagavAna mahAvIra tathA bhagavAna buddha aura arvAcIna yugameM mahAtmA gAMdhI, yogI zrI. aravinda evaM saMta vinovA jaise yugapuruSoMko janma dekara bhAratavarSane dharmaciMtanake kSetrameM gurupada prApta kiyA hai / yugoMse bhAratavarSane isa prakArake aneka tattvaciMtakoM, zAstrapraNetAoM, sAdhakoM, yogiyoM aura vidvAnoMko jagatItala para sAdara samarpita kiyA hai| prajJAcakSu paMDita sukhalAlajI unhIMmase eka haiM / ve sadA hI satyazodhaka, jIvanasAdhaka, puruSArthaparAyaNa tathA jJAna-pipAsu rahe haiN| isa paMDita purupane jJAna-mArga para apane aMtarlokako prakAzita kara ujjvala caritra dvArA jIvanako nirmala aura UrdhvagAmI banAnekA niraMtara prayatna kiyA hai| inakI sAdhanA sAmaMjasyapUrNa hai, inakI prajJA satyamUlaka tathA samanvayagAnI hai aura inakA jIvana tyAga, titikSA evaM saMyamayukta hai / / janma, kuTumba aura bAlyAvasthA paMDitajIkI janmabhUmi vahI saurASTra hai jahAM kaI saMtoM, vIroM aura sAhasikoMne janma liyA hai| jhAlAvADa jileke surendranagarase chaH mIlake fAsale para lImalI nAmaka eka choTese gAMvameM saMvat 1937 ke mArgazIrSakI zukA paMcamI, tadanusAra. tA. 8-12-1880 ke dina paMDitajIkA janma huA thA / inaka pitAjIkA nAma saMghajIbhAI thaa| ve visAzrImAlI jJAtike jaina the| unakA upanAma saMghavI aura gotra dhAkaDa (dharkeTa ) thA / jaba paMDitajI cAra hI

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- - paMDitaM sukhalAlajI sAlake the, taba unakI mAtAjIkA svargavAsa ho gayA / gharameM vimAtAkA Agamana huA / unakA nAma thA jar3IbAI / ve jitanI suMdara thIM, atanI hI prasannavadanA bhI thiiN| sneha aura saujanya to unameM kUTa kUTakara bharA huA thaa| ve mAno mAtRtvakI sAkSAt mUrti hI thiiN| paMDitajIkA kahanA hai ki kaI varSoM vAda unheM yaha jJAta huA ki ve unakI vimAtA thIM / itanA unakA mRdu . vyavahAra thA ! - pArivArika vyavasthA aura baccoMkI dekhabhAlakA sArA kAma mUlajI kAkA karate the| ve the to ghara ke naukara, para kuTumbake eka sadasya hI vana gaye the| unameM bar3I vafAdArI aura ImAnadArI thii| vAlaka sukhalAlako to ve apane veTese bhI z2yAdA cAhate the| unheM paMDitajI Aja bhI 'puruSamAtA' ke snehabhare nAmase smaraNa karate haiM / vacapanase hI sukhalAlako khela-kUdakA bar3A zauka thaa| ve bar3e nirbhIka aura sAhasI the| eka bAra tairanA sIkhanekA jImeM AyA to vinA kisIkI madada mAMge jAkara kue~ meM kUda par3e aura apane tai~ tairanA sIkha liyA / ghur3asavArI bhI unheM bahuta pasaMda thii| sarakasake savArakI taraha ghor3ekI pITha para khar3e hokara use daur3Ane meM unheM var3A majA AtA thaa| kaI vAra ve isameM mu~hake bala gire bhI the| eka bAra sukhalAla apane do mitroMke sAtha tAlAva para nahAne cale / bAteM karate karate tInoM mitroMmeM yaha hor3a lagI ki ulaTe pA~va calakara kauna sabase pahale tAlAva paraM pahu~catA hai| vasa ! ava kyA thA ?, lage sukhalAla to ulaTe pA~va calane / thor3I hI derameM ve thUharake kA~ToMmeM jA gire| sAre zarIrameM burI taraha kAMTe cubha gye| ve vahIM behoza ho gye| unheM ghara le jAyA gayA / var3I muzkilase cAra-cha: ghaMToMke vAda jaba ve hozameM Aye, to kyA dekhate haiM ki sArA vadana kAMToMse vidha gayA hai| tela lagAyA jA rahA hai aura nAI eka-eka kara kAMTe nikAla rahA hai| para unhoMne isakI jarA bhI paravAha nahIM kii| lage bar3ha car3hakara apanI zaurya-gAthA gAne / aise sAhasapriya aura krIDApriya sukhalAla parizramI, AjJAkArI tathA svAvalaMbI bhI kama nahIM the| viveka aura vyavasthA unake pratyeka kAryameM dIkha par3atI thii| dUsaroMkA kAma karaneko ve sadA tatpara rahate the| par3hAImeM ve kabhI lAparavAhI nahIM karate the| unameM Alasya nAmako na thaa| buddhi itanI tIkSNa thI ki kaThinatama viSaya bhI unake liye sarala-sA thaa| smaraNazakti itanI tIvra thI ki jo bhI ve par3hate, turaMta kaMThastha

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saMkSipta paricaya ho jAtA / pustakoMkI dekhabhAla itanI adhika karate the ki sAlabharake upayogake vAda bhI ve vilakula naI-sI rahatI thiiN| gujarAtI sAtavIM zreNI pAsa karaneke bAda sukhalAlakI icchA aMgrejI par3hanekI huI, para unake abhibhAvakoMne to yaha socA ki isa hoziyAra lar3akeko par3hAIke badale vyApAra meM lagA diyA jAya to thor3e hI arasemeM dukAnakA vojha uThAnemeM yaha acchA sAjhIdAra vnegaa| ataH unheM dukAna para baiThanA pdd'aa| dhIre dhIre sukhalAla saphala vyApArI vanane lge| vyApAra meM una dinoM bar3I tejI thii| parivArake vyavahAra bhI DhaMgase cala rahe the| sagAI, zAdI, mauta aura janmake-maukoM para paisA pAnIkI taraha bahAyA jAtA thaa| atithi-satkAra aura tithi-lauhAra para kucha bhI vAqI na rakhA jAtA thaa| paMDitajI kahate haiM - ina savako meM dekhA krtaa| yaha saba pasaMda bhI bahuta AtA thaa| para na jAne kyoM manake kisI konese halkI-sI AvAja uThatI thI ki yaha saba ThIka to nahIM ho rahA hai| par3hanA-likhanA chor3akara isa prakArake kharcIle rivAjoMmeM lage rahanese koI bhalA nahIM hogaa| zAyada yaha kisI agamya bhAvIkA iMgita thaa| caudaha varSakI AyumeM vimAtAkA bhI avasAna ho gyaa| sukhalAlakI sagAI to vacapana hI meM ho gaI thii| vi0 saM0 1952meM paMdraha varSakI avasthA meM vivAhakI taiyAriyA~ hone lagIM, para sasurAlakI kisI kaThinAIke kAraNa usa varSa vivAha sthagita karanA pdd'aa| usa samaya kisIko yaha jJAta nahIM thA ki vaha vivAha sadAke liye sthagita rhegaa| cecakakI bImArI vyApAra meM hAtha baTAnevAle mukhalAla sAre parivArakI AzA bana gaye the, kintu madhura laganevAlI AzA kaI vAra ThaginI banakara dhokhA de jAtI hai / paMDitajIke parivArako bhI yahI anubhava huaa| vi. saM. 1953 meM 16 varSake kizora sukhalAla cecakake bhayaMkara rogake zikAra hue / zarIra ke roma romameM yaha vyAdhi parivyApta ho gaI / kSaNa kSaNameM mRtyukA sAkSAtkAra hone lgaa| jIvana-maraNakA bhIpaNa dvandva-yuddha chir3A / aMtameM sukhalAla vijayI hue, para isameM ve apanI A~khoMkA prakAza kho baiThe / apanI vijaya unheM parAjayase bhI vizeSa asahya ho gaI, aura jIvana mRtyume bhI adhika kaSTadAyI pratIta huaa| netroMke aMdhakArane unakI aMtarAtmAko nirAzA evaM zUnyatAmeM nimagna kara diyaa| para duHkhakI saccI auSadhi samaya hai / kucha dina bItane para mukhalAla svastha hue / khoyA huA A~khoMkA bAhya prakAza dhIre dhIre aMtarloka meM pravaMza

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paMDita sukhalAlajI karane lgaa| aura phira to unakI vikalatA, nirAzA tathA zUnyatA vinaSTa ho gaI / unake sthAna para svasthatA evaM zAMtikA sUryodaya huA / ava yuvaka sukhalAla kA jIvana-maMtra vanA-'na dainyaM, na palAyanam / '. mahArathI karNakI bhA~ti 'bhadAyattaM tu paurupaM' ke amogha astrase bhAgyake sAtha lar3anekA dRr3ha saMkalpa kara liyaa| apanI vipadAoMko unhoMne vikAsakA sAdhana vanAyA / 'vipadaH santu naH zazvat'-mAtA kuntI dvArA vyakta mahAbhAratakArake ye zabda Aja bhI unheM utane hI priya aura preraka haiM / sukhalAlane cecakakI bImArIse mukta hokara apanA jIvana-pravAha badala diyA / saphala vyApArI honevAle sukhalAla vidyopArjanake prati unmukha hue, aura janmase jo vaizya the ve karmase ava brAhmaNa ( sarasvatI-putra) vanane lage / 16 varSakI vayameM dvijatvake ye navIna saMskAra ! lIlAdharakI lIlA hI to hai / vidyA-sAdhanAke mArga para sukhalAlakA aMtarmukhI mana AtmAke prati gamana karane lgaa| unhoMne vidyAsAdhanAkA mArga apnaayaa| apanI jijJAsA-tuSTike liye ve sAdhu-sAdhvI aura saMta-sAdhakoMkA satsaMga karane lge| isa satsaMgake do zubha pariNAma aaye| eka ora dharmazAstroMke adhyayanase sukhalAlakI prajJAmeM abhivRddhi hone lagI aura dUsarI ora vrata, tapa aura niyamapAlana dvArA unakA jIvana saMyamI evaM saMpanna banane lgaa| vi0 saM0 1953 se 1960 takakA 6-7 varSakA kAla sukhalAlake jIvana meM saMkrAMti-kAla thaa| usa avadhimeM eka bAra eka munirAjake saMsargase sukhalAla mana-avadhAnake prayogakI ora mudd'e| eka sAtha hI sau-pacAsa bAteM yAda rakhakara unakA vyavasthita uttara denA kitanA Azcaryajanaka haiM ! kintu alpa samayameM hI sukhalAlane anubhava kiyA ki yaha prayoga na kevala vidyopAjanameM hI vAdhaka hai, apitu usase buddhimeM vaMdhyatva tathA jijJAsAvRttimeM zithilatA A jAtI hai / phalataH tatkAla hI isa prayogako chor3akara ve vidyA sAdhanAmeM saMlagna ho gaye / Aja bhI yadi koI avadhAna sIkhanekI vAta cher3atA hai to paMDitajI spaSTataH kahate haiM ki buddhiko baMdhyA aura jijJAsAko kuMThita banAnekA yaha mArga hai| isI prakAra eka bAra sukhalAlako maMtra-taMtra sIkhanekI icchA ho AI / avakAza to thA hI; vauddhika prayoga karanekA sAhasa bhI thaa| socA - sAMpakA jahara utAra sakeM yA abhIpsita vastu prApta kara sakeM to kyA hI acchA ? lage maMtra-taMtra sIkhane, kintu alpAnubhavase hI unheM yaha pratIti ho. gaI ki ina

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- saMkSipta paricaya savameM satyAMza to kvacit hI hai, vizeSataH daMbha aura mithyAtva hai| usameM ajJAna, aMdhazraddhA tathA vahamako vizepa bala milatA hai| unakA parityAga kara ve phira jIvana-sAdhanAmeM laga gaye-jJAnamArgakI ora pravRtta hue| vi0 saM0 1960 taka ve lImalI gAMvameM yathAsaMbhava jJAnopArjana karate rahe / ardhamAgadhIke Agama tathA anya dhArmika granthoMkA paThana-manana kara unheM kaThastha kara liyaa| sAtha hI aneka saMskRta pustakoM tathA rAsoM, stavanoM aura sajjhAyoM jaisI asaMkhya gujarAtI kRtiyoMko bhI javAnI yAda kara liyaa| pUjya lAdhAjI svAmI aura unake vidvAna zipya pUjya uttamacaMdajI svAmIne unheM sArasvatavyAkaraNa par3hAyA, para isase unheM saMtopa nahIM huaa| lImalImeM naye abhyAsako muvidhA nahIM thii| unheM ina dinoM yaha bhI anubhava hone lagA ki apane samasta zAstra-jJAnako vyavasthita karaneke liye saMskRta bhASAkA samyaka jJAna anivArya hai| saMskRtake viziSTa- adhyApanakI suvidhA lImalImeM thI hI nahIM / sukhalAla isa abhAvase vecaina rahane lage / prazna yaha thA ki aba kiyA kyA jAya ? kAzImeM vidyAdhyayana _ devayogase usI samaya unheM jJAta huA ki pUjya muni mahArAja zrI. dharmavijayajI ( zAstravizArada jainAcArya zrI. vijayadharmasUrIzvarajI) ne jaina vidyArthiyoMko saMskRta-prAkRta bhASAke paMDita banAne ke liye kAzImeM zrI. yazovijaya jaina saMskRta pAThazAlA sthApita kI hai| isase sukhalAla atyaMta prasanna ho gye| unhoMne apane kuTumbI-janoMse gupta patravyavahAra karake banArasameM adhyayana karanekI mahArAjajIse anumati prApta kara lI, para dRSTivihIna isa yuvakako banArasa taka bhejaneko kuTumbI-jana rAjI ho kese? magara sukhalAlakA mana to apane saMkalpa para dRDha thA / jJAna-pipAsA itanI adhika tIvra thI ki use koI davA nahIM sakatA thA / sAhasa karanekI vRtti to janmajAta thI hI / phalataH ve purupArtha karaneko udyata hue / eka dina unhoMne apane abhibhAvakoMse kahA"ava mujhe ApameMse koI roka nahIM sakatA / meM vanArasa jarUra jAU~gA / agara Apa logoMne svIkRti nahIM dI to bar3A aniSTa hogA / " ghara ke sabhI loga cupa the| eka dina paMDitajI apane sAthI nAnAlAlake sAtha vanArasake liye ravAnA ho hI gaye / bilakula anajAnA pradeza, bahuta lambI yAtrA aura bhalA-bholA sAthI-ina sabake kAraNa unheM yAtrAmeM bar3I parezAnI uThAnI pdd'ii| eka bAra

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paMDita sukhalAlajI zaucAdike liye eka sTezana para utare, to gAr3I hI chUTa gaI / para jyoM-tyoM kara ve aMtameM kAzI pahu~ce / paMDitajIke jIvanake do preraka vala haiM - jAgrata jijJAsA aura avirata prayatna / ina donoM guNoM ke kAraNa unakA jIvana sadA navIna eva ullAsapUrNa rahA hai / apanI jijJAsA-tuSTike liye ve kisI bhI prakArakA puruSArtha karanesenahIM hicakicAte / bhUkhA jyoM bhojanameM laga jAtA hai, kAzI pahu~cakara sukhalAla tyoM adhyayanameM saMlagna ho gye| vi0 saM0 1963 taka, mAtra tIna hI varSameM, unhoMne aThAraha hajAra zloka-parimANa siddhahemavyAkaraNa kaMThastha kara liyaa| (paMDitajIko Aja bhI samagra vyAkaraNa TIkAke sAtha smaraNa hai|) vyAkaraNake sAtha sAtha nyAya aura sAhityakA bhI adhyayana AraMbha kara diyaa| isase paMDitajIkI jijJAsA aura bar3hane lagI / ve naye naye puruSArtha karaneko udyata hue / java pAThazAlAkA vAtAvaraNa unheM adhyayanake adhika anukUla nahIM jaMcA, to ve usase mukta hokara svataMtra rUpase gaMgAjIke taTapara bhadainI ghATa para rahane lage / unake sAtha unake mitra vrajalAlajI bhI the / banArasa jaise sudUra pradezameM paMDitajIkA koI sambandhI nahIM thA, kharcakI pUrI vyavasthA bhI nahIM thii| jijJAsA-vRtti adamya thI, ataH Aye dina unheM vikaTa paristhitikA sAmanA karanA par3atA thA / Arthika saMkaTa to isa svapnadarzI navayuvakako behada taMga karatA thA / aMtameM socA-yadi bhAratameM vyayakI vyavasthA nahIM huI to amarikAke mi0 rokaphelarase, jo aneka yuvakoMko chAtravRttiyA~ diyA karate haiM, Arthika sahAyatA prApta kara amarikA pahu~ceMge / para daivayogase Avazyaka dhana prApta ho gayA aura amarikA jAnekA vicAra sadAke liye chUTa gayA / sukhalAla ava vidyopArjanameM vizeSa kaTivaddha hue| una dinoM kisI vaizya vidyArthIke liye brAhmaNa paMDitase saMskRta sAhityakA jJAna prApta karanA atyanta kaThina kArya thA, para sukhalAla hatAza honevAle vyakti nahIM the| cilacilAtI huI dhUpameM yA kar3Ake kI sardImeM ve roja ATha-dasa mIla paidala calakara paMDitoMke ghara pahu~cate, sevA-zuzrUpA kara unheM saMtuSTa karate aura jyoM-tyoM kara apanA hetu siddha karate / isa prakAra avirata parizramase chAtra sukhalAla paMDita sukhalAlajI vanane lge| ___gaMgA-taTake isa nivAsa-kAlake vIca kabhI kabhI paMDitajI apane eka hAthase rassIke eka sireko bAMdhakara aura dUsarA sirA kisI dUsareko sauMpakara gaMgA

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saMkSipta paricaya snAnakA AnaMda lete the / eka vAra to ve vinA rassI vAMdhe nadImeM kUda par3e aura lage DUbane, kintu saMyoga se unake mitra vrajalAla vahA~ samaya para A pahu~ce aura unheM bacA liyA / vi0 saM0 1966meM sukhalAlajI nyAyAcAryakI parIkSA meM saMmilita hue, para durbhAgyase 'lekhaka' nikammA milA / sukhalAlajI likhAe kucha, aura vaha likhe kucha / aMta meM unhoMne apanI kaThinAI kAleja ke prinsipala zrI0 venisa sAhaba se kahI / ve aMgrez2a vidvAna sahRdaya the / vidyArthIkI vAstavika sthitiko samajhakara unhoMne turaMta maukhika parIkSAkI vyavasthA kara dI aura svayaM bhI parIkSakoM ke sAtha baiThe | paMDitajIke uttara sunakara zrI0 venisa sAhaba atyaMta mugdha ho gaye aura una parIkSakoMmeMse eka zrI0 vAmAcaraNa bhaTTAcArya to itane adhika prasanna hue ki unhoMne sukhalAlajI se apane yahA~ par3hane Ane ko kahA / yaha paMDitajIkI pratibhAkA eka udAharaNa hai / kramazaH sukhalAlajIne 'nyAyAcArya ' upAdhike tIna khaMDoMkI parIkSA bhI de dI, paraMtu vi0 saM0 1969 meM aMtima khaMDakI parIkSAke samaya parIkSakoM ke aise kaTu anubhava hue ki parIkSAke liye usa kAleja bhavana meM phira kabhI paira na rakhanekA saMkalpa kara paMDitajI bAhara nikala gaye / isa prasaMgake lagabhaga 2223 varSa pazcAt vi0 saM0 1992 meM pAThyakrama saMzodhana samitike eka sadasya kI haisiyata se unhoMne usa bhavana meM sammAnapUrvaka punaH praveza kiyA ! mithilAkI yAtrA vi0 saM0 1966-67 taka paMDitajIne vanArasa meM jo bhI jJAna prApta ho sakatA thA, prApta kara liyA; kintu unakI jijJAsA aura jJAnapipAsA to dina-pratidina bar3hatI hI jA rahI thI / unakA mana ava vihAra ke vidyAdhAma mithilAkI ora daur3ane lagA / 8 mithilA pradeza yAnI daridratAkI bhUmi; kintu vahA~ke sarasvatI upAsaka, jJAna- tapasvI paMDitagaNa vidyAke aise vyAsaMgI haiM ki ve adhyayana meM apanI daridratAkA duHkha hI bhUla jAte haiM / navyanyAya kA vizeSa adhyayana karaneke liye paMDitajI banArasase aba samaya-samaya para mithilA jAne lage / mithilAmeM bhI unhoMne kama kaSTa nahIM jhelaa| vahAM ve bhojana meM pAte the- dAla, bhAta aura sAga / mithilAkI sardI aura phusakI jhoMpaDImeM ghAsa ke kabhI agara dahIM mila gayA to paDsa bhojana ! barasAtakA muqAbalA karanA loheke cane cabAnA thA |

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: 10 : paMDita sukhalAlajI vistara para sokara sukhalAlajIne saba kucha sahA aura apane abhISTa mArga. para DaTe rahe / paMDitajIke pAsa eka garama svITara thA / jIvanameM pahalI bAra unhoMne use kharIdA thA / kar3Ake kI sardI thii| gurujIne svITarakI var3I tArIfa kI / paMDitajI tAr3a gaye / sardIse khudake ThiThuranekI paravAha na kara unhoMne vahe ... svITara gurujIkI sevAmeM sAdara samarpita kara diyA, aura khudane ghAsake vistara aura jarjarita kaMvala para sardIke dina kATa diye / ____ zurU-zurUmeM paMDitajI mithilAke tIna cAra gA~voM meM adhyayana-vyavasthAke liye dhUme / aMtameM unheM darabhaMgAmeM mahAmahopAdhyAya zrI. bAlakRSNa mizra nAmaka guru mila gaye, jinakI kRpAse unakA parizrama saphala huaa| mizrajI paMDitajIse umrameM choTe the, para nyAyazAstra aura sabhI darzanoMke prakhara vidvAna the| sAtha hI ve kavi bhI the aura sabase bar3I bAta to yaha thI ki ve atyaMta sahRdaya evaM sajjana the / paMDitajI unheM pAkara kRtakRtya hue aura gurujI bhI * aise paMDitaziSyako pAkara atyaMta prasanna hue / tatpazcAt zrI0 bAlakRSNa mizra vanArasake orienTala kAlejake prinsipala niyukta hue / unakI siphArizase mahAmanA paMDita madanamohana mAlavIyajI aura AcArya AnaMdazaMkara dhruvane san 1933 meM paMDitajIko jaina-darzanakA adhyApaka niyukta kiyA / vanArasameM adhyApaka hote hue bhI paMDitajI zrI. vAlakRSNa mizrake vargameM yadA kadA upasthita rahA karate the / yaha thA paMDitajIkA jIvaMta vidyArthI-bhAva / Aja bhI paMDitajIke mana para ina guruvaryake pAMDitya evaM saujanyakA vaDA bhArI prabhAva hai / unake nAma-smaraNase hI paMDitajI bhakti, zraddhA evaM AbhArakI bhAvanAse gadagada ho jAte haiM / isa prakAra vi0 saMvat 1960 se 1969 takake nau varSa paMDitajIne gaMbhIra adhyayanameM vyatIta kiye the| usa samaya unakI avasthA 32 varSakI thii| usake bAda apane upArjita jJAnako vidyArthIvarga meM vitarita karanekA puNya kArya unhoMne zurU kiyA / yahA~ eka vastu vizeSa ullekhanIya hai ki apane adhyayana-kAlameM paDitajI mAtra vidyopArjanameM hI nahIM lage rahe / vaMgabhaMgase prAraMbha hokara vividha rUpoMmeM vikasita honevAle hamAre rASTrIya Andolanase bhI ve pUrNataH avagata rahe / taduparAnta dezakI sAmAjika evaM dhArmika samasyAoM para bhI unhoMne ciMtana

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saMkSipta paricaya kiyaa| isa prakAra paMDitajIkI dRSTi zurUse hI vyApaka thI / niHsaMdeha yaha unakI jAgrata jijJAsAkA hI phala thA / adhyApana, graMtharacanA tathA anya pravRttiyA~ __ zrI. vAbU dayAlacaMdajI jauharI Adi utsAhI evaM bhAvanAzIla navayuvakoMse ArkaSita hokara ava paMDi.jIne banArasake badale AgarAko apanA pravRtti kendra banAyA / vahA~se ve AsapAsake zaharoMmeM muniyoMko par3hAneke liye cAra-chaH mAsa jA Ate aura phira AgarA vApasa Akara adhyayana-adhyApana karate / isa prakAra tIna-cAra varSa bIte / itanemeM mahAtmA gAMdhIke prasiddha satyAgraha-saMgrAmakI duMdubhi dezake kone-konemeM bajane lagI / paMDitajI usase alipta kaise raha sakate the ? unheM bhI vApUke karmayogane behada Akarpita kiyA / prAraMbhameM ahamadAvAdake kocarava AzramameM aura tatpazcAt satyAgraha-Azrama, sAbaramatImeM vApUke sAtha rahane pahu~ce / vahA~ sabake sAtha cakkI pIsate aura anya zrama-kArya karate / gAMdhIjIke sAtha cakkI pIsate pIsate hAthameM phaphole uThanekI bAta Aja bhI paNDitajI Anandake sAtha yAda karate haiN| kintu thor3e hI samayake bAda unhoMne yaha anubhava kiyA ki unake jaise parAdhIna vyaktike liye vApUke karmayogakA pUrNataH anusaraNa saMbhava nahIM hai / isa vAste vivaza hokara phira ce AgarA lauTe, para una para cApUkA sthAyI prabhAva to par3A hii| ve sAdagI aura svAvalaMbanake pujArI bane / pIsanA, vartana malanA, safAI karanA vagairaha svAvalaMbanake kAmoMko karanameM unheM AnaMda Ane lagA / yaha vi0 saM0 1973 kI bAta hai| ina dinoM jIvanako vizeSa saMyamI banAneke liye paMDitajIne pAMca varSa taka ghI-dUdhakA bhI tyAga kiyA aura khAne-pInekI jhaMjhaTase chuTTI pAne aura jyAdA kharcase bacaneke liye unhoMne apanI khurAkako vilakula sAdA vanA liyaa| isakA natIjA yaha huA ki san 1920 meM paMDitajIko bavAsIra ke bhayaMkara rogane A gherA aura ve marate-marate jyoM-tyoMkara bace / tavase paMDitajIne zarIra-sa~bhAlanakA padArthapATha siikhaa| ___avataka to paMDitajI adhyApana-kArya hI karate the, para vi0 saM0 1974 meM eka bAra zAMtamUrti sanmitra muni zrI karpUra vijayajIne paMDitajIke mitra vrajalAlajIse kahA ki-" Apa to kucha likha sakate haiM, phira Apa likhate kyoM nahIM ? sukhalAlajI likha nahIM sakate, isaliye ve paMDitoMko taiyAra karanekA kArya kareM / " paMDitajIko yaha bAta laga gii| unheM apanI vivazatA bahuta khaTakI / unhoMne socA-"maiM svayaM likha nahIM sakatA to kyA huA?

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paMDita sukhalAlajI dUsareko likhAkara to graMtha-racanA kI jA sakatI hai !" turaMta hI unhoMne karmatattvajJAna sambandhI prAkRta bhASAkA 'karmagraMtha' uThAyA / ghora parizrama kara usa kaThina graMthakA anuvAda, vivecana aura abhyAsapUrNa prastAvanA taiyAra kara chapavAyA / tava to sabhI vidvAna dAMtoM tale u~galI davAne lge| isa prakAra paMDitajIkI lekhana-pratibhAkA paMDitavargako prathama paricaya prApta huA / usIke sAtha paMDitajIke grantha-nirmANa kI paraMparA prAraMbha ho gaI, jo akSuNNa rUpase Aja taka cala rahI hai| .. tIna varSake pazcAt paMDitajIne 'sanmatitarka ' jaise mahAna dArzanika graMthakA saMpAdana-kArya AgarAmeM rahakara AraMbha kiyA, para usI samaya gAMdhIjIne ahamadAvAdameM gujarAta vidyApIThakI sthApanA kI aura paMDitajIke mitroMne unheM vidyApIThake purAtattva maMdira meM bhAratIya darzanake adhyApaka-padako grahaNa karanekA anurodha kiyA / paMDitajIko gAMdhIjIke prati AkarSaNa to pahale se thA hI, manapasaMda kAma karate hue gAMdhIjIke saMsargameM rahanekA yaha suyoga pAkara ve atyaMta prasanna hue aura saMvat 1978 meM ahamadAvAda jAkara gujarAta vidyApIThake adhyApaka bana gaye / gujarAta vidyApITha aura sAvaramatI Azrama una dinoM rASTrIya tIrthasthAna mAne jAte the / vidyApIThameM adhyApana-kAryake liye bhAratabharake coTIke vidvAna ekatrita hue the| zrI. kAkA kAlelakara, AcArya kRpAlAnI, AcArya giDavAnI, muni jinavijayajI, adhyApaka dharmAnanda kosambI, zrI. kizoralAlabhAI mazarUvAlA, pro. rAmanArAyaNa pAThaka, zrI. rasikalAla parIkha, paM0 becaradAsajI, zrI. nAnAbhAI bhaTTa, zrI. naraharibhAI parIkha ityAdi aneka vidvAnoMne apanI vahumUlya sevAe~ niHsvArthabhAvase vidyApIThako samarpita kI thiiN| paMDitajI bhI unameM saMmilita hue / yaha suyoga unheM bahuta pasaMda AyA / vidyApIThameM rahakara paMDitajIne adhyApanake sAtha-sAtha adhyApaka dharmAnanda kosambIse pAlI bhASAkA adhyayana bhI kiyA / taduparAMta paM0 vecaradAsajIke sahayogase 8-9 varSakA avirata parizrama kara 'sanmatitarka' ke saMpAdanakA bhagIratha kArya sampanna kiyA / vidvAnoMne usa graMthakI (mUla pA~ca bhAga aura chaThA bhAga anuvAda, vivecana tathA vistRta prastAvanA AdikA) muktakaMThase prazaMsA kii| DaoN. harmana jekobI, pro0 loyamana aura pro0 lyUDarsa jaise prasiddha pazcimI vidvAnoMne bhI usakI tArIfa kI / gAMdhIjIko bhI usake nirmANase bar3A hI saMtopa huA, aura unhoMne kahA-" itanA bhArI parizrama

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saMkSipta paricaya karaneke pazcAt sukhalAlajIko ekAdha varSakA vizrAma lenA cAhie / " itanameM san '30 kA aitihAsika varSa A phuNcaa| sAre deza meM svataMtratA-saMgrAmake nakAre vajane lage / rASTrIya AMdolana meM saMmilita honekA savako AhvAna huA / prasiddha dAMDIkUca prAraMbha huI, aura gAMdhIjIke sabhI sAthI isa ahiMsaka saMgrAmake sainika vane / paMDitajI bhI usameM saMmilita honeko adhIra ho uTe, para unake liye to yaha saMbhava hI na thA, ataH ve mana masosakara cupa raha gye| unhoMne isa samayakA sadupayoga eka aura siddhi prApta karane ke liye kiyA / aMgrejImeM vividha viSayake uccakoTike gaMbhIra sAhityakA prakAzana dekhakara paMDitajIko aMgrejIkI apanI ajJAnatA bahuta khaTakI / unhoMne kaTivaddha hokara san 3031 ke ve dina aMgrejI-adhyayanameM bitAye / isI silasilemeM ve tIna mAsake liye zAMtiniketana bhI raha Aye / aMgrejIkI acchI yogyatA pAkara hI unhoMne dama liyA / san 1933 meM paMDitajI vanArasa hindU yUnivarsiTImeM jaina-darzanake adhyApaka niyukta hue| dasa varSa taka isa sthAna para kArya karaneke pazcAt san 1944 meM ve nivRtta hue / isa dasa varSakI avadhimeM paMDitajIne aneka vidvAnoMko, jinheM paMDitajI 'cetanagraMtha' kahate haiM, taiyAra kiyA aura kaI graMthokA saMpAdana kiyA / nivRttike samaya hindU vizvavidyAlaya banArasake tatkAlIna vAisa cAnsalara aura vartamAna uparASTrapati DA. rAdhAkRSNane yUnivarsiTImeM hI grantha-saMpAdanakA mahattvapUrNa kArya sAMpane aura etadartha Avazyaka dhanakI vyavasthA kara denakA paMDitajIke sAmane prastAva rakhA, para paMDitajIkA mana aba gujarAtakI ora khIMcA jA rahA thA, ataH use ve svIkAra na kara sake / isase pUrva bhI kalakattA yUnivarsiTIke tatkAlIna vAisa cAMsalara zrI. zyAmAprasAda mukharjIne sara AzutoSa ceyara ke jaina-darzanake adhyApakakA kArya karanekI paMDitajIse prArthanA kI thI, para paMDitajIna usameM bhI savinaya apanI asamarthatA pradarzita kI thii| samanvayasAdhaka pAMDitya paMDitajIke adhyApana evaM sAhitya-sarjanakI mukhya tIna vizeSatAeM haiM : (1) "nAmUlaM likhyate kiMcit "-jo kucha bhI par3hAnA yA likhanA ho vaha AdhArabhUta hI honA cAhie aura usameM alpokti, atizayokti yA kalpita uktikA tanika bhI samAveza nahIM honA cAhiye /

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: 14 : paMDita sukhalAlajI (2) aitihAsika dRSTi yAnI satyazodhaka dRSTi - kisI bhI tathyakA upayoga apane mAnya matako satya siddha karaneke hetu nahIM, para usa matake satyasvarUpakA sAkSAtkAra karaneke liye hI honA cAhiye / (3) tulanAtmaka dRSTi -- kisI bhI granthake nirmANa meM kaI preraka valoMne kArya kiyA hotA hai / isIke sAtha usa grantha para pUrvakAlIna yA samakAlIna granthoMkA prabhAva hotA hai tathA usameM aneka anya uddharaNoMke samAviSTa honekI saMbhAvanA rahatI hai / isake atirikta samAna viSayake granthoM meM, bhASA-bhedake hote hue bhI, viSaya - nirUpaNakI kucha samAnatA avazya rahatI hai / isaliye jisa vyaktiko satyakI khoja karanI hai, use tulanAtmaka adhyayanako apanAnA cAhiye / paMDitajIne uparyukta paddhati se grantha - racanA kara kaI sAMpradAyika rUr3hiyoM aura mAnyatAoMko chinna-bhinna kara diyA | kaI naI sthApanAe~ aura mAnyatAe~ prastuta kIM / isaliye ve eka ora samartha vidvAnoMke prItipAtra vane, to dUsarI ora purAne rUr3hivAdiyoMke kopabhAjana bhI vane / paMDitajI saMskRta, prAkRta, pAlI, gujarAtI, hindI, marAThI, aMgrez2I Adi aneka bhASAoMke jJAtA haiM / gujarAtI, hindI aura saMskRta meM unhoMne grantharacanA kI hai / prAraMbha meM paMDitajI prastAvanA, TippaNiyA~ Adi saMskRtameM likhavAte the, kintu bAdameM gujarAtI aura hiMdI jaisI lokasugama bhASAoM meM likhanekA Agraha rakhA / java kisI viSaya para likhanA hotA hai, taba paMDitajI tatsaMbaMdhI kaI grantha par3havAte haiM, sunate sunate kaI mahattvake uddharaNa noTa karavAte haiM aura kucha ko yAda bhI rakha lete haiM / usake bAda ekAgra hokara svasthatApUrvaka dhArApravAhI rUpase grantha likhavAte haiM / unakI smaraNazakti, kuzAgra buddhi aura vibhinna viSayoM ko vaijJAnika DhaMga se prastuta karanekI asAdhAraNa kSamatA dekhakara Azcarya hotA hai / paMDitajIkA mukhya viSaya hai : bhAratIya darzanazAstra, aura usameM bhI ve jaina-darzanake vizeSajJa haiM / unhoMne sabhI darzanoMke mUla tattvoMkA eka sacce abhyAsIke rUpa meM abhyAsa kiyA hai / isIlie ve unakI tAttvika mAnyatAoMko jar3a - mUlase pakar3a sakate haiN| Aja javaki hamAre sAmAnya paMDitoMko bhAratIya darzanoM meM paraspara vibheda naz2ara AtA haiM, paMDitajIko unameM samanvaya - sAdhaka abheda-tattva dRSTigocara hotA hai / isa prakAra sarva bhAratIya darzanoMke madhya samanvayavAdI dRSTikoNakI sthApanA hI darzanake kSetrameM paMDitajI kI maulika dena hai / Aja to ve bhAratIya darzana hI nahIM, saMsAra ke sabhI darzanoM meM samanvaya

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saMkSipta paricaya : 15 : sAdhaka tattvoMke darzana kara rahe haiM / aba paMDitajI sahI arthoM meM 'sarvadarzanasamanvayake samartha paMDita ' vana gaye haiM / jIvanapaddhati paMDitajI adhika se adhika svAvalaMbana ke pakSapAtI haiN| kisI para avalaMbita rahanA unheM rucikara nahIM / dUsaroMkI sevA lete samaya unheM bar3A kSobha hotA hai / parAvalaMbana unheM priya nahIM hai, ataH unhoMne apane jIvanako bahuta hI sAdA aura kama kharcavAlA banAyA hai / aparigrahake ve AgrahI haiM / paMDitajIke bhojana, vAcana, lekhana yA mulAqAtakA kAryakrama sadA nizcita rahatA hai / ve pratyeka kArya meM niyamita rahanekA prayatna karate rahate haiM / nirarthaka kAlakSepa to unheM dhanake durvyaya se bhI vizeSa asahya hai / bhojanakI parimitatA aura Tahalane kI niyamitatA ke hI kAraNa paMDitajI tana aura manase svastha rahate haiM / ve mAnate haiM ki bhojana ke pazcAt AlasyakA anubhava honA kadApi ucita nahIM / zarIrakA jitanA popaNa ho utanA hI usase kAma bhI liyA jAya / dhana-saMcayakI bhA~ti zarIra-saMcaya bhI manuSya ke patanakA kAraNa hotA hai / isa mAnyatA ke kAraNa ve zarIra-puSTike liye auSadhi yA vizeSa bhojana kabhI nahIM lete / jaba svAsthya bigar3a jAtA hai, taba anivArya rUpase hI davAkA Azraya lete haiM / san 1938 meM paMDitajIko epeNDisAiTisakA oparezana bambaI meM karavAnA par3A thA | tabase unheM yaha vizvAsa ho gayA ki tavIyatakI orase lAparavAha rahane para hI aisI bImAriyA~ A gheratI haiM / aba ve apane khAne-pInemeM z2yAdA caukanne ho gaye haiM / kamakharcIko paMDitajI apanA mitra mAnate haiM, para sAtha hI apane sAdhIke liye sadA udAra rahate haiN| kisIkA, kisI bhI prakArakA zoSaNa unheM pasaMda nahIM / kisI jijJAsu yA tattvaciMtakako milakara paMDitajIko bahuta khuzI hotI hai / apanI yA auroMkI jijJAsA saMtuSTa karanA unakA priya kArya hai / - yaha paMDijIkA jIvanamaMtra hai - auroMkI ora nahIM, apanI ora dekho | dUsare kyA kahate haiM, isakI ciMtA na kro| apane manako svaccha evaM svastha rakhanA hamAre hAthameM hai / ' eka bAra prasaMgavazAt unhoMne kahA thA, bAta hameM sadA yAda rakhanI cAhiye ki hama apane manako apane basameM rakha sakate haiM | mana hI vaMdhana aura muktikA kAraNa hai / mAna lIjiye maiMna kisIne rasakA pyAlA ma~gavAyA / rasakA vaha bharA huA pyAlA lAte lAte rAstemeM gira 8 8

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paMDita sukhalAlajI par3A aura phUTa gyaa| sArA rasa jamIna para phaila gyaa| isa para hameM gussA AnA svAbhAvika hai| para aise maukoM para hameM, jinheM AdhyAtmika sAdhanA iSTa hai, itanA hI socanA cAhiye ki pyAleko yA rasako nIce giranese bacAnA bhale hI hamAre hAthameM na ho, para hamAre cittako krodha dvArA patita honese vacAnA to hamAre vasakI bAta hai| hama use kyoM na kareM ? " vyApaka dRSTi paMDitajI mUlataH jJAnopAsaka haiM, para jJAnako hI sarvesarvA mAnanevAle ve poMgApaMthI nhiiN| ve jIvanako vyApaka dRSTise dekhate haiN| saMkucitatA unameM nAmako bhI nhiiN| ve darzanazAstra evaM saMskRta-pAlI-prAkRta sAhityake samartha vidvAna hote hue bhI manovijJAna, mAnavavaMzazAstra, samAjazAstra ityAdi vividha jJAna-vijJAnakI zAkhAoMke bhI jAnakAra haiN| sAtha hI jIvanopayogI vividha pravRttiyoMkA mahattva ve khUba jAnate haiN| isIlie to unheM gaMbhIra adhyayana tathA zAstrIya ciMtanameM jitanI ruci hai utanI hI pazupAlana, khetI, strI-zikSA, harijanoddhAra, grAmodyoga, khAdI, katAI-bunAI, zikSAkA mAdhyama ityAdi rASTranirmANa aura janasevAke vividha racanAtmaka kAryomeM ruci hai| ve inameM rasa lete haiM aura samagra mAnavajIvanake sAtha apane vyaktigata jIvanakA tAdAtmya sthApita karanekA niraMtara prayatna karate haiN| ajJAnatA, aMdhazraddhA, vahama, rUr3hiparAyaNatA Adike prati paMDitajIko saqhta nafarata hai / strI-puruSa yA mAnava-mAnavake U~ca-nIcake bhedabhAvako dekhakara unakI AtmAko var3A kleza hotA hai / jisa dharmane eka dina janatAko ajJAnatA, aMdhazraddhA tathA rUr3hise mukta karanekA puNyakArya kiyA thA usI dharma yA matake anuyAyiyoMko Aja pragatirodhaka durguNoMko prazraya dete dekhakara paMDitajIkA puNyaprakopa prakaTa ho jAtA hai aura ve kaha uThate haiM-"drAkSAkSetre gardabhAzcaranti / " jJAnakA hetu satya-zodhana aura kriyAkA hetu jIvana-zodhana arthAt ahiMsApAlana hai / ataH yadi kahIM zAstrake nAma para aMdhazraddhA aura ajJAnatAkI tathA kriyAke nAma para vivekahInatA aura jar3atAkI puSTi hotI ho, to paMDitajI usakA ugra virodha kiye binA raha nahIM skte| isIke pariNAmasvarUpa ve paraMparAvAdI aura rUr3hivAdI samAjakI ghora niMdAke pAtra banate haiN| jJAnasAdhanAko saphala banAneke liye ve satyako saMpradAyase bar3hakara mAnate haiM / sAMpradAyika kadAgraha yA apane matakA moha una para kabhI nahIM chaayaa| buddhi aura hRdayake vikAsakI avarodhaka pravRttikA unakI dRSTimeM koI mUlya nahIM /

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saMkSipta paricaya : 17: isa prakAra paMDitajI sadA hI krAMtikArI evaM pragatizIla dRSTikoNakA svAgata karate rahe haiM, anyAya aura damanakA virodha karate rahe haiM, sAmAjika durvyavahArase pIDita mahilAoM evaM padadalitoMke prati sahRdaya vane rahe haiN| paMDitajI dhArmika evaM sAmAjika rogoMke sacce parIkSaka aura cikitsaka hai / nivRttike nAma para pravRttike prati hamAre samAjakI udAsInatA unheM behada khaTakatI hai| unakA dhArmika Adarza hai : mitti me sababhUpasu - samasta vizvake sAtha advaitabhAva yAnI ahiMsAkA pUrNa sAkSAtkAra / isameM sAMpradAyikatA yA pakSApakSIko tanika bhI avakAza nahIM hai| unakA sAmAjika pravRttikA Adarza hai --- strI-purupa yA mAnavamAtrakI samAnatA / ___paMDitajI premake bhUkhe haiM, para khuzAmadase kosoM dUra bhAgate haiN| ve jitane vinamra haiM, utane hI dRr3ha bhI haiM / atyaMta zAMtipUrvaka satya vastu kahane meM unheM koI hicakicAhaTa nahIM / AvazyakatA par3ane para kaTu satya kahanA bhI ve nahIM cUkate / paMDitajIkI vyavahArakuzalatA prasiddha hai| pArivArika yA gRhasthIke jaTila praznoMkA ve vyAvahArika hala khoja nikAlate haiM / ve itane vicakSaNa haiM ki eka bAra kisI vyakti yA sthAnakI mulAqAta le lene para use phira kabhI nahIM bhUlate; aura jaba ve usakA varNana karanA zurU karate haiM, taba sunanevAlA yaha bhA~pa nahIM sakatA ki varNanakartA cakSuhIna hai / ve udAra, sarala evaM sahRdaya haiN| koI unheM apanA mitra mAnatA hai, koI pitA aura koI guruvarya / ___ gA~dhIjIke prati paMDitajIkI aTUTa zraddhA hai / bApUkI racanAtmaka pravRttiyoMmeM unheM bar3I ruci hai / apanI vivazatAke kAraNa ve unameM sakriya sahayoga nahIM de sakate, isakA unheM bar3A duHkha hai| ina dinoM gujarAtake bhUdAna kAryakartAoMne to unheM apanA banA liyA hai| pU0 ravizaMkara mahArAjake prati paMDitajIko var3A Adara hai / taduparAMta 'guNAH pUjAsthAnaM guNipu na ca liMgaM na ca vayaH 'isa siddhAntAnusAra zrI. nArAyaNa desAI jaise navayuvakoMkI sevA-pravRttike prati bhI ve sneha va zraddhApUrvaka dekhate haiN| pravRttiparAyaNa nivRtti vanArasase nivRtta hokara paMDitajI vambaIke bhAratIya vidyAbhavanameM avaitanika adhyApakake rUpameM kAma karane lage, para bambaIkA nivAsa unheM anukUla na huA / ataH ve vApasa vanArasa lauTa gaye / san 1947 meM ve ahamadAbAdameM

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paMDita sukhalAlajI Aye aura gujarAta vidyAsabhAke zrI0 bho0 je0 vidyAbhavanameM avaitanika adhyApakake rUpameM kArya zurU kiyA / yaha kArya Aja bhI jArI hai aura ava to ahamadAbAda, hI meM paMDitajIkA qAyamI muqAma ho gayA hai / / vaise dekhA jAya to paMDitajI ava nivRtta gine jAte haiM, para unakA yaha nivRtti-kAla pravRtti kAlase kisI taraha kama nahIM / vidyAke upArjana aura vitaraNakA kAya Aja 77 varSakI AyumeM bhI ve avirata gatise kara rahe haiM, aura mAno kisI prAcIna RSi-Azramake kulapati hoM isa taraha vidyArthiyoM, adhyApakoM aura vidvAnoMko unakA amUlya mArgadarzana sulabha ho rahA hai / __ apane nikaTa AnevAle vyaktiko kucha-na-kucha dekara mAnavatAke RNase mukta honekI paMDitajI sadA ciMtA karate rahate haiN| hAla hI meM ( tA0 16-2-57 ke dina ) gujarAtake navayuvaka bhUdAna kAryakartA zrI0 sUryakAMta parIkhako patra . likhate hue AcArya vinovA bhAvene paMDitajIke bAre meM satya hI likhA hai "paMDita sukhalAlajIko Apako vicAra-zodhanameM madada milatI hai, yaha jAnakara mujhe khuzI huii| madada deneko to ve baiThe hI haiN| madada lenevAlA koI mila jAtA hai to usIkA abhinaMdana karanA caahiye|" vidvattAkA vahumAna gata dasa varSAmeM paMDitajIkI vidvattAkA nimnalikhita DhaMgase bahumAna huA hai san 1947 meM jaina sAhityakI ullekhanIya sevA karaneke upalakSyameM bhAvanagarakI zrI. yazovijaya jaina graMthamAlAkI orase zrI. vijayadharmasUri jaina sAhitya suvarNa-caMdraka (prathama) arpita kiyA gayA / san 1951 meM Apa oNla iNDiyA orieNTala kAnpharansake 16veM lakhanaU adhivezanake jaina aura prAkRta vibhAgake adhyakSa bane / san 1955 meM ahamadAvAdameM gujarAta vidyAsabhA dvArA Ayojita zrI. popaTalAla hemacaMdra adhyAtma vyAkhyAnamAlAmeM 'adhyAtmavicAraNA' saMbaMdhI tIna vyAkhyAna diye| san 1956 meM vardhAkI rASTrabhASA pracAra samitikI orase dArzanika evaM AdhyAtmika graMthoMkI hindImeM racanA kara hindI bhApAkI sevA karaneke upalakSya meM

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saMkSipta paricaya ru0 1501) kA zrI0 mahAtmA gA~dhI puraskAra (paMcama) Apako pradAna kiyA gayA / ( caturtha puraskAra pU0 vinobAjIko pradAna kiyA gayA thaa|) san 1957 meM mahArAjA sayAjIrAva yUnivarsiTI, bar3audAke tattvAvadhAna meM mahArAjA sayAjIrAva onareriyama lekcarsakI zreNImeM 'bhAratIya tattvavidyA' para Apane pA~ca vyAkhyAna diye| san 1957 meM gujarAta yUnivarsiTIne Apako DaoNkTara oNpha leTarsa (D. Litt.) kI sammAnita upAdhi pradAna karanekA nirNaya kiyaa| san 1957 meM akhila bhAratIya rUpameM saMgaTita 'paMDita sukhalAlanI sanmAna samiti' dvArA vaMvaImeM ApakA sArvajanika DhaMgase bhavya sanmAna kiyA gayA / eka sanmAna-koza bhI arpita kiyA gayA aura Apake lekha-saMgrahoM ( do gujarAtImeM aura eka hindImeMkula tIna graMthoM )kA prakAzana karanekI ghoSaNA kI gaI / sAhitya sarjana paMDitajIke saMpAdita, saMzodhita, anuvAdita aura vivecita graMthoMkI nAmAvalI nimnAMkita hai (1) AtmAnuzAstikulaka-( pUrvAcArya kRta ) mUla prAkRti; gujarAtI anuvAda (san 1914-15) / (2-5) karmagraMtha 1 se 4-devendrasUri kRtaH mUla prAkRta; hindI anuvAda, vivecana, prastAvanA, pariziSTayukta; san 1915 se 1920 taka; prakAzaka : zrI AtmAnaMda jaina pustaka pracAraka maMDala, AgarA / (6) daMDaka-pUrvAcArya kRta prAkRta jana prakaraNa graMthakA hindIsAra; san 1921; prakAzaka uparyukta / (5) paMca pratikramaNa jaina AcAra viSayaka grantha; mUla prAkRtaH hindI anuvAda vivecana, prastAvanA yukta; san 1921; prakAzaka uparyukta / (8) yogadarzana-mUla pAtaMjala yogasUtraH vRtti upAdhyAya yazovijayajI kRta tathA zrI haribhadrasUri kRta prAkRta yogavizikA mUla, TIkA (saMskRta) upAdhyAya yazovijayajI kRta; hindI sAra, vivecacana tathA prastAvanA yukta; san 19.22; prakAzaka uparyukta / (9) sanmatitarka-mUla prAkRta siddhasena divAkara kRtaH TIkA (saMskRta) zrI abhayadevari kRta; pA~ca bhAga, chaThA bhAga mUla aura gujarAtI sAra, vivecana tathA prastAvanA sahita: paM. vecaradAsajIke sahayogase / san 1925 se 1932 taka

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: 20 : paMDita sukhalAlajI prakAzaka : gujarAta vidyApITha, ahamadAvAda / (chaThe bhAgakA aMgrejI anuvAda san 1940 meM jaina zvetAmbara mUrtipUjaka kAnpharansakI orase prakaTa huA hai / ) (10) jaina dRSTie brahmacaryavicAra-gujarAtImeM, paMDita vecaradAsajIke sahayogase, prakAzaka uparyukta / / (11) tattvArthasUtra-umAsvati vAcaka kRta saMskRta; sAra, vivecana, vistRta prastAvanA yukta; gujarAtI aura hindImeM; san 1930 meM / gujarAtIke prakAzaka : gujarAta vidyApITha, ahamadAvAda, tIna AvRttiyA~ / hindI prathama AvRttike prakAzaka : zrI0 AtmAnaMda janma zatAbdI smAraka samiti, vambaI; dUsarI AvRttike prakAzaka : jaina saMskRti saMzodhaka maMDala, vanArasa / (12) nyAyAvatAra - siddhasena divAkara kRta; mUla saMskRta; anuvAda, vivecana, prastAvanA yukta; san 1925; jaina sAhitya saMzodhaka meM prakaTa huA hai| (13) pramANamImAMsA-hemacaMdrAcArya kRta; mUla saMskRta; hindI prastAvanA tathA TippaNa yuktaH san 1939, prakAzaka : siMghI jaina granthamAlA, bambaI / (14) jainatarkabhASA- upAdhyAya yazovijayajI kRta; mUla saMskRta; saMskRta TippaNayukta, hindI prastAvanA; san 1940; prakAzaka uparyukta / / (15) heturvidu-cauddha nyAyakA saMskRta grantha; dharmakIrti kRta; TIkAkAra arcaTa, anuTIkAkAra durveka mizra, aMgrejI prastAvanA yukta; san 1949; prakAzaka : gAyakavADa orieNTala sirIz2a, var3audA / (16) jJAnabiMdu-upAdhyAya yazovijayajI kRta; mUla saMskRta; hindI prastAvanA tathA saMskRta TippaNa yukta; san 1949; prakAzaka : siMghI jaina granthamAlA, vambaI / (17) tattvopaplavasiMha-jayarAzi kRta; cArvAka paramparAkA saMskRta grantha; aMgrejI prastAvanA yuktaH san 1940; prakAzaka : gAyakavAr3a orieNTala sirIja, bar3audA / - (18) vedavAdadvAtriMzikA-siddhasena divAkara . kRta; saMskRta; gujarAtImeM sAra, vivecana, prastAvanA; san 1946; prakAzaka : bhAratIya vidyAbhavana, vambaI / (yaha grantha hindImeM bhI prakAzita huA hai|)

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saMkSipta paricaya 21 : (19) AdhyAtmika vikAsakrama - guNasthAnake tulanAtmaka adhyayana saMbaMdhI tIna lekha san 1925; prakAzaka : zaMbhulAla ja0 zAha, ahamadAbAda | (20) niryatha saMpradAya - mahattva ke prAcIna tathyoMkA aitihAsika nirUpaNa; hindImeM; san 1947 prakAzaka : jaina saMskRti saMzodhaka maMDala, banArasa | (21) cAra tIrthakara bhagavAna RSabhadeva, neminAtha, pArzvanAtha tathA mahAvIra saMbaMdhI lekhAMkA saMgraha, hindI meM; san 1954 prakAzaka uparyukta | (22) dharma aura samAja - lekhAMkA saMgraha; hindImeM; san 1951; prakAzaka : hindI grantha - ratnAkara kAryAlaya, vambaI | (23) adhyAtmavicAraNA -- gujarAta vidyAsabhAkI zrI0 popaTalAla hemacaMdra adhyAtma vyAkhyAnamAlA ke aMtargata AtmA, paramAtmA aura sAdhanA ke saMbaMdharme diye gaye tIna vyAkhyAna; gujarAtI meM san 1956 prakAzaka : gujarAta vidhAsabhA, ahamadAvAda / (24) bhAratIya tattvavidyA - mahArAjA sayAjIrAva yUnivarsiTI, asia ke tatvAvadhAna meM mahArAjA sayAjIrAva onareriyama lekcarsake aMtargata jagata, jIva aura Izvara ke saMbaMdha meM diye gaye pA~ca vyAkhyAna ; prakAzaka : astdA yUnivarsiTI ( presa meM ) / inake atirikta dArzanika, dhArmika, sAhityika, sAmAjika aura rASTrIya viSaya se sambaddha aneka lekha paMDitajIne gujarAtI aura hindImeM likhe haiM / inameM se adhikAMza lekha ' paMDita sukhalAlajI sanmAna samiti kI orase prakAzita ( darzana ane citana' nAmaka gujarAtIke do granthoM meM tathA ' darzana aura citana ' nAmaka hindI eka granthameM saMgrahIta kiye gaye haiM /

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nAsti yeSAM yazaHkAye z2arAmaraNa bhayam /

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C/o sarva-sevA-saMgha, gAMdhInagara, tirupura, ji. koimbatUra / (tAmiLanADa) . b-b-chw - - zrI mahAzaya, paNDita sukhalAlajIkI vidyAsevAke kAraNa kRtajJatA pragaTa karaneke liye unakA sanmAnakA samArambha bambaImeM kiyA jA rahA hai, yaha khuzIkI bAta hai / taTastha yA niSpakSa buddhi vidyopAsanAkI gamaka hai| yaha guNa paMDita sukhalAla jImeM paripUrNatayA pAyA jAtA hai / maiM AzA karatA hU~, usa mahAna guNakA sparza hama sabako hogaa| vinovAke praNAma -

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gAMdhIyuganA darzanazAstrI - kAkAsAheba kAlelakara paMDita sukhalAlajI sAthe mAre paricaya 30-35 varasane che. emanI kuzAgra buddhi ane vidvatA sau koI jANe che. bhAratIya tattvajJAna uparanuM emanuM . prabhutva asAdhAraNa che. 30-35 varasanA paricayamAM meM emanI vANImAM ke vartanamAM anudAratAne lavaleza je nathI; pakSapAta ke saMkucitatA joI nathI. dRSTi hovA chatAM adekhAI karanArA leke meM joyA che. evA loke pratye sukhalAlajIe haMmezA kSati dhAraNa karI che, ane tethI emane viSe Adara vadhate ja game che. paMDita sukhalAlajI najare joI zakatA nathI, paraNane emaNe gRhasthAzrama karyo nathI. A moTI be UNapa hevA chatAM emanuM jIvanadarzana adhUruM nathI. . e ja batAve che ke je mANasa pAse sukSma buddhi ane udAra hRdaya hoya te enI anubhUtimAM UNapa rahevAnuM kAraNa nathI. vidvAne mAM jyAre pakSapAta, saMkucitatA, krodha athavA lebha pesI jAya che, tyAre temanAmAM eziyALApaNuM AvI jAya che. sukhalAlajI nirAgrahI ane niHspRhI hovAne kAraNe emaNe pitAnI tejasvitA khoI nathI. ApaNe emanI pAsethI have be vastunI apekSA rAkhIe. eka, teo ApaNane potAnuM vistRta Atmacaritra lakhI Ape ane bIjuM, bhAratIya darzanazAstronA niceDarUpe eka sarvasamanvayakArI darzana-graMtha ApaNane Ape, je bhAratIya tattvajJAnane navaprasthAnarUpa nIvaDe, ane duniyAne navajIvananI racanA karavA mATe majabUta pAyo pUro pADe. gAMdhIyuganA darzanazAstrI ja A kAma karI zakaze.

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paM0 sukhalAlajI zrI. rAhula sAMkRtyAyana paM0 sukhalAlajI hamAre tapasvI vidyAcaraNasampanna prAcIna paMDitoMke pratIka haiM | saMskRta darzanake adbhuta vidvAn hone para bhI unakI tIvra jijJAsAko dekhakara Azraya hotA hai / hara naye jJAnako arjita karaneke liye isa vArdhakya meM bhI taiyAra rahate haiM / varSo pahalekI vAta hai / rUsake AcArya racetskI ke "buddhisTa lAjika" ko par3havAkara unhoMne sunA thA / kaha rahe the, usakA hamArI bhASA meM anuvAda honA cAhiye aura hareka saMskRta ke darzanAcAryako use par3hanA cAhiye / tibbata meM cauddha nyAyakI bahuta-sI pustake mujhe milIM, jinake liye sabase adhika prasannatA AcArya icetskI aura paM0 sukhalAlajIko huI / pramANavArttika bhASya " ko prakAzita honemeM vIsa varSa laga gaye / pahale to AzA hI nahIM thI ki vaha kabhI prakAzita hogA bhI / paMDitajI taba taka pratIkSA nahIM kara sakate the| unhoMne merI utArI huI pratiko maMgavAkara sArA grantha utaravA liyA | 6 maiM pichale vIsa-paccIsa varSoMse paMDitajI ke samparka meM rahA hU~ / unake sarala aura madhura vyaktitvane aura bhI mujhe adhika prabhAvita kiyA hai / vaha AcAra-vicAra sabameM atyanta udAra haiM / sAmpradAyika saMkIrNatA unase kosoM dUra rahI / apane samAja dvArA surakSita nidhiyoMkA unheM pUrA abhimAna thA, aura unake saMrakSaNakA prayatna bhI karate haiN| para, unakI vidvattA unheM pUrNa bhAratIya banAtI hai / valki kahanA cAhiye, vaha mAnavatA ke abhinna aMga haiM / purAne vidvAnoMmeM itanI adhika vicAra - sahiSNutA maiMne nahIM dekhI, yadyapi sabhI mata-matAntara ke mahAn grathoMke prati Adara aura sneha maine dUsare paMDita meM bhI dekhe haiM / paMDitajI hamAre bIca meM zatAyu hokara raheM aura apanI apAra jJAnanidhise jijJAsuoM aura chAtroMko tRpta karate raheM / masUrI, 22-2-57

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prajJAcakSu paMDita sukhalAlajI zrI. ravizaMkara mahArAja paMDita sukhalAlajIne maLavA mATe eka vakhata huM banArasa yunivarsiTImAM zrI. gaMgAbena jhaverI sAthe gaye hato. teo e vakhate emanA mukAma upara nahotA. ame thoDI vAra beThA, eTalAmAM paMDitajI AvyA. meM emanA khuzakhabara pULyA. tyAM te emaNe mane nAma daIne bolAvyo. mane thayuM ke bahu varSo pahelAM gUjarAta vidyApIThamAM ame thoDI kSaNa mATe maLyA hatA. eTalA TUMkA paricaya uparathI emaNe mArA avAjane pakaDI pADyo haze, tyAre ja e mane oLakhI zake ne? A keTalI smaraNazakti ! paMDitajIne joIne punarjanmane bhavya vicAranuM smaraNa thaI Ave che. gItAmAM pUrva janma vega sAdhanArane vega adhUro rahyo hoya te na janma laIne e pUrNa kare che, ema kaheluM che. evuM ja kaMIka paMDitajIne joIne lAge che. emanI AjanI siddhio emanA pUrvajanmanuM phaLa kema na hoya ?, svAmI dayAnaMda sarasvatInA guru svAmI virajAnaMdajInuM jIvanacaritra meM vAMceluM. e paNa bALapaNathI aMdha chatAM prajJAcakSu ne mahAna vaiyAkaraNI hatA. paMDitajIne jouM chuM tyAre svAmI virajAnaMdajInuM citra mArI AMkho AgaLa khaDuM thAya che. bALapaNamAM ja emanI banne AMkhe cAlI gaI che; paNa bhAre puruSArtha karIne teo prajJAcakSu banyA che. dharma ane tatvajJAnane emano UMDo abhyAsa, bIjAnI AMkhe kareluM bahoLuM vAcana tathA avakana, tema ja koI paNa abhyAsanA viSaya ke prasaMgenA AkalanamAMthI tattva pArakhI kADhavAnI emanI sUkSma medhA joIne ApaNane saune Azcarya thAya che. kumArI helana kelara viSe ApaNe ghaNuM sAMbhaLIe chIe, paNa teo te ApaNAthI bahu dUra paDyAM. paMDita sukhalAlajI to ApaNI vacce ja che; ApaNA jevA ja dekhAtA chatAM AvI mahAna zakita dharAvatA prajJApuruSa che. teo kevaLa ApaNu gRjarAtanuM ja nahi, paNa bhAratanuM eka amUluM ratna che. emanA jIvananI prakriyA joIne huM haMmezAM mugdha thAuM chuM ane jyAre jyAre emane maLavAnuM thAya che, tyAre emane moDhe thoDI vAta sAMbhaLIne khUba saMtoSa ane AnaMda anubhavuM chuM. chotera varSa sudhI emaNe emanI zaktio mAraphata samAjanI ane sAhityanI anerI sevAo bajAvI che. enI kadara thaI rahI che e joI mAruM aMtara hasI UThe che. evA mahAna vidvAna puruSa viSe mArA je abhaNa mANasa vizeSa zuM lakhe? namrabhAve A prasaMge huM emane namaskAra karuM chuM. umaravA, tA. 1-3-57

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paMDita sukhalAlajI zrI. nAnAbhAI bhaTTa paMDitajIno pratyakSa paricaya pahelavahele gujarAta vidyApIThamAM thayo. pUjya bApue mane gujarAta vidyApIThamAM goThavyuM te vakhate vidyApIThamAM je adhyApake ekaThA maLyA hatA teo dareka eka eka svataMtra vidyApITha thApI zake eTalA zaktizALI hatA. teo pote ja eka eka vidyApITha hatA, ema kahevuM vadhAre yathArtha che. paMDitajI gujarAta vidyApIThanA purAtatva vibhAgamAM te vakhate kAma karatA hatA. paMDita sukhalAlajI, samata rAmanArAyaNa pAThaka, munizrI jinavijayajI, paMDita becaradAsajI, zrI. rasikalAla parIkha, kosAMbIjI vagere A vibhAgamAM kAma karatA hatA. paNa vidyApIThamAM huM paMDitajInI bahu najIka na AvI zakyo. vidyApIThamAM mane emanI vidyAe mugdha karyo, paNa emanA jIvananuM bIjuM pAsuM jovA-jANavAne mane tyAM vakhata na maLyo. sAmAnya rIte vidyA eTale narI vikatA e artha ApaNuM manamAM Uge che. AvI vidvattA kAM te naryA zabda ane zabdonA artha upara rAce che athavA te vadhAre vyavahArU rUpa laIne koI paNa eka viSayamAM mANasane pAraMgata banAve che. AthI karIne ApaNuM paMDita moTe bhAge pithI-pati na hoya che athavA te vidyAnA koI eka vibhAgamAM niSNAta heya che. paMDita sukhalAlajI AvA pothI-paMDita to che ja, paMDitajI AvI vidyAnA niSNAta paNa che; paNa taduparAMta paMDitajIe pitAnI paMDitAIne tema ja potAnA niSNAtapaNAne jIvananI sAthe sAce sumeLa sAdhe che; eTale emanI paMDitAI vadhAre tejasvI banI che ane emanuM bhAratIya tattvajJAnanA pradezamAM niSNAtapaNuM hajI Aje paNa ApaNane jIvatuM lAge che. eTale paMDitajI purAtattvamAM kAma karanArA hovA chatAM niraMtara adhatana che. jIrNa jevA jaNAtA zabdomAM paMDitajI no prANa pUrI zake che ane navA yuganA mAnavInI bhUkha tema ja maherachAne Adara karI zake che. paDitajI janma jena che, teo jaina paraMparAmAM UcharyA che, chatAM vaidika paraMparAmAM tema ja bauddha paraMparAmAM je sadaMze rahelA che tene teo Adara kare che ane tamAma paraMparAomAM je dUSaNo dAkhala thaI gayAM che tenA tarapha temane ekasarakho virodha che. A ja kAraNathI AvatI kAlanA je dharmanI jagatamAM dekhA daI rahI che tenA paMDitajI eka purogAmI che, ema ApaNane lAvyA vinA rahetuM nathI.

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A te thaI paMDitajInI paMDitAInI vAta. paNa emanI paMDitAInI sAthe emanI nirabhimAnitA ApaNane mugdha kare che. paMDitajI dekhAve sAva sAdA-kema jANe koI zILInA cAThAvALo vANiye hAya! aSTAvakra muninA vAMkAcUkAM aMge joIne jema janakanI sabhAnA brAhmaNone hasavuM AvyuM hatuM tema ajANyA AdamIne paMDitajIne vyAsapITha para jaIne kadAca hasavuM paNa Ave. paNa jeo hADaka-cAmaDAne mUlavanAra camArathI ucca koTinA lake che teo to paMDitajInuM A nirabhimAnapaNe joIne mugdha thayA vinA rahI ja na zake. vANuM sAva sAdI, paNa arthagaMbhIra. bolavAmAM jarAya aMga-upAMganI laTakyaTaka nahi, ane tema chatAM adhikArI zretAonA haiyA soMsarI UtarI jAya evI emanI vAto bhUlI na javAya evI hoya che. A nirabhimAnitA mAtra vANImAM ja nahIM, paNa paMDitajInA samagra jIvanamAM nItaratI jaNAya che. balavAmAM, cAlavAmAM, khAvAmAM, pIvAmAM, besavAmAM, UThavAmAM narI sAdAI jarAya ADaMbara nahi, jarAya kRtrimatA nahi-narI saMskArapUrNa sAdAI. paNa A sAdAI eTale mAtra jIbha paranI mIThAza ema rakhe kaI samaje. paMDitajI jeTalA vidvAna che, paMDitajI jeTalA sAdA che teTalA ja nIDara che, nirbhaya che. emanAM vANI ane vartana vivekathI bharyA che, chatAM jagatamAM ane temAMya khAsa karIne samAjamAM tema ja dharmamAM cAlatAM jUTha ane pAkhaMDa tarapha emane virodha hamezAM ugra hoya che. duniyAnA DAhyA mANaso je jUTha tema ja pAkhaMDa sAthe ghaNIvAra mAMDavALa kare che tevI mAMDavALa paMDitajI kadI paNa karatA nathI ane jyAre jyAre virodha karavAne pitAno dharma jaNAya tyAre UMDA aMtara ne vedanA karatA zabdathI paMDitajI virodha kare che. vidvatA, sAdAI ane nirbhayatAne Avo subhaga sumeLa ghaNuM ochAM mANamAM jovA maLe che. paMDitajIne kadAca evA mANasamAM mokhare mukAya. vidyApIThamAMthI ame chUTA paDyA pachI mAre paMDitajI sAthe paricaya vadhato Avyo che, ane chelle chelle lokabhAratImAM to e paricaya ghaNe vadhAre dRDha thayo che. jema jema huM paMDitajInA paricayamAM vadhAre vadhAre Avata gayo tema tema mAre temanA taraphano Adara vadhato cAlyo che. ame sau lekabhAratImAM paMDitajInA jIvananI suvAsa avAranavAra laI zakIe chIe, e amAruM sadbhAgya che. tA. 3-3-57, lekabhAratI, saNosarA

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mahApAjJa paNDita sukhalAlajI DA0 vAsudevazaraNa agravAla paNDita mukhalAlajIkA smaraNa karate hue eka saMmAnita vizepaNa jo mere manameM AtA hai vaha 'mahAprAjJa ' hai / ve sarvathA prajJAke rUpa haiM, bhItara-vAhara dIrgha prajJAse otaprota haiM / prAcIna upaniSad yugameM prajJA zabda para vizeSa dhyAna diyA gayA thA / jIvanakI jo vyavahAraparAyaNa kuzala vuddhi hai use prajJA kahate the| apane nijI vicAroM aura karmAma saMtulana prajJAkA lakSaNa hai| dUsaroMke karmomeM vyavahAravuddhise aura hitAkAMkSAse sahayoga aura sahAyatA denA prajJAkA lakSaNa hai| prajJAvAn vyakti saMsArake vyavahAroMko chor3atA nahIM; unameM bharasaka vuddhikauzalase pravRtta hotA hai| usake pratyeka kAryameM utsAha aura zraddhAkA vIja rahatA hai / isa prakArakI prazasta buddhimattA jisa vyakti meM ho use hama prAjJa yA prajJAvAn kheNge| Ajakala jise samajhadArI yA hRdayake ArjavabhAvase yukta vicAra aura karmakI kuzalatA kahate haiM vahI prAcIna paribhASA meM prajJA kahI jAtI thI / prajJAko hI mAgadhI yA pAli bhASAmeM 'paJjA' aura ardhamAgadhI bolImeM 'paNNA' kahA gayA / hamArA anumAna hai ki usIkA rUpa kisI. janapada vizeSakI volImeM, saMbhavataH kuru janapadake kSetrameM, 'paNDA' huA / jaise prajJAse yukta prAjJa, vaise hI paNDAse yukta vyakti 'paNDita' isa padavIkA adhikArI huA / sacce arthameM paNDita honA jIvanakI mahatI pratiSTA aura saphalatA hai / daivayogase yaha saMmAnita padavI zrI0 sukhalAlajIke nAmake sAtha lokakI antaHpreraNAko vyakta karatI huI svataH jur3a gaI hai, jisameM unake vizAla sarasa vyaktitvakI arthavatI jhA~kI milatI hai / / zrI0 sukhalAlajI vyakti nahIM, saMsthA haiM / unake zarIrakA gotra aura nAma jo bhI ho, unhoMne apanA sArasvata gotra vanA liyA hai| jahA~ jahA~ sarasvatI yA zAradAkI saccI upAsanA kI jAtI hai, vahIM zrI0 mukhalAlajIke manako rasa milatA hai / jahA~ jJAna aura vidyAkI carcA hai, jahA~ saMskRti aura kalAkI sAdhanA hotI hai, usa brAhma-sara meM zrI0 mukhalAlajI abhiSeka karake gadgad ho jAte haiN| unake manameM abhinivezakI sImAe~ nahIM, na kisI prakArakA pUrvAgraha hai / unakA mana udAra hai / maiMne Aja lagabhaga bIsa varpomeM javase unheM jAnA hai, unake isI svabhAva aura svarUpako sakuzala dekhA hai / unake bhItara preraNAkA srota kaisA akSayya hai, isakI kalpanA vaha vyakti

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kara sakatA hai, jisane unheM sAhitya - jagatake sahayogiyoMke sAtha sambandhake aneka sUtra jor3ate hue dekhA hai / ve sAfa-suthare vicAra aura tadanurUpa sughaTita suzilpayukta karma meM vizvAsa karate haiM / svayaM apane jIvana meM unhoMne isakA pratipAlana kiyA hai, aura dUsaroMmeM bhI ve isa guNako dekhanA cAhate haiM / apane jIvanameM unhoMne jo jJAnakI gaMbhIra sAdhanA kI hai vaha stutya hai / pANinIya vyAkaraNa, siddhahema - zabdAnuzAsana jaise mahAn grantha, bhAratIya jaina aura bauddha darzana, unameM bhI vizeSataH nyAya aura prAmANyavAda ke aneka viziSTa grantha unakI smRtimeM vidyamAna haiM / unake tarka aura hetuoMmeM gahare paiThakara unhoMne viziSTa vicAra kiyA hai / unake isa mahatkarmakA anubhava karake stavdha ho jAnA par3atA hai / unakI pracaNDa dahakatI huI smRti IzvarakA varadAna hai, jise unhoMne apanI ekAgra niSThAse aura bhI kuzalinI banAyA hai / kintu zuddha zAstrIya pANDitya to anyatra bhI mila sakatA hai / paNDitajIkI jo vizeSatA hai, vaha unakA dRSTikoNa hai / unhoMne pratyeka jJAnako jIvanakI dRSTise samajhane aura arthAnekA abhyAsa kiyA hai / vaha pANDiya kyA jo jIvanase asaMspRSTa rahe ? ve gAndhIjIke nikaTa saMparka meM Aye aura lagabhaga gyAraha varSoM taka ahamadAvAda - gujarAta vidyApIThameM kArya karate rahe / avazya hI donoM mahAn vyaktioMne eka-dUsareko pahacAnA, aura apane kAryoMko jIvanarasa se samanvita banAkara prastuta karanekI yuktiko hI apanAyA / kaI avasaroM para zrI0 paNDitajIko nikaTa se dekhanekA avasara mujhe milA hai, aura prativAra unake prati maiMne apane AkarSaNako bar3hA huA pAyA hai / jaina sAhityake sarvAMGgapUrNa vRhat itihAsakI eka yojanA merI preraNA se pArzvanAtha vidyAzramane svIkRta kI / Arambhase hI paNDitajIne usameM sakriya ruci lI / na kevala unhoMne usakA samarthana kiyA, varan usake Arambhika saMgaThana meM vahumUlya parAmarza aura sahayoga diyA | yojanAke sambandha meM jo eka vAkya unhoMne kahA vaha mujhe kabhI nahIM bhUlatA - " yaha kAma karanA hai / " Aja bhI yojanAkI pravRttiyoM meM lage hue saba sahayogI isa preraNAghana sUtrase kaThinAI meM mArgadarzana prApta karate haiM / maiM AnandakA vaha kSaNa bhI kabhI nahIM bhUla sakatA jaba rAjakoTakI meghANI samitike nimantraNa para meghANI vyAkhyAnamAlA ' ke prathama vyAkhyAna dene meM aura kucha hI sTezana pUrva brAhmamuhUrtameM lagabhaga cAra baje milI ki paNDita sukhalAlajI una vyAkhyAnoMke avasara para < 8 Amantrita hokara rAjakoTa jA rahA thA relameM hI sUcanA upasthita rahane ke

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liye yAtrA kara rahe haiN| mere mana para usa samaya unake vyaktitvakI jo chApa par3I vaha amiTa hai / meM nahIM jAnatA ki aura kitanoMko bhI unake isa prakArake rasapUrNa vyaktitvakA madhumAn anubhava prApta huA hogA / maiMne ise apanA saubhAgya hI mAnA ki unhIMke sabhApatitvameM meM 'prAcIna bhAratIya lokadharma' para apane vyAkhyAna sunA sakA / usa samaya bhI unhoMne jisa hRdayakI mahattAkA paricaya diyA thA aura zrotAoMko savizeSa rUpase ukta viSayakI ora AkRSTa kiyA thA, ve madhura saMsmaraNa mere manameM nihita haiM / paNDitajIne aneka zAstrIya granthoMkA nirmANa kiyA hai, para unake eka vizeSa kAryakA mere manane varAvara abhinandana kiyA hai / vaha unakA siddhasena divAkarakI dvAtriMzikAoMke viSayameM adhyayana hai / kahA jAtA hai ki vattIsabattIsa zlokoMkI battIsa dvAtriMzikAe~ siddhasenane likhI thIM, jinameMse 22 abhI taka upalabdha haiM / unakA mUla saMskaraNa kabhI chapA thaa| Azcarya hai ki siddhasena jaise mahimAzAlI mastiSkakI ina kRtioMkI ora vidvAnoMkA dhyAna kaise nahIM gayA ? siddhasena guptayugake na kevala gambhIra dArzanika the, kintu usase bhI adhika ve saMsAriNI prajJAse samanvita vyakti the| merI kalpanA hai ki vyaktitvake jisa kSIrarasakI upalabdhi hameM paNDita sukhalAlajImeM hotI hai usIke navanItase siddhasenakA svarUpa nirmita huA thaa| unakI dvAtriMzikAoMko par3hate hue mere manameM unake viSayameM vicitra kalpanAe~ AI haiN| zrI0 paNDitajIkI dRSTine siddhasenake usa pakSako pahacAna liyA aura sanmatiprakaraNakI prastAvanAmeM una savakA paricaya deneke anantara unamase eka dvAtriMzikAvedavAdadvAtriMzikApara bhASya likhakara usa mahAn AcAryako punaH hamAre dRSTipathameM lAnekA upakrama kiyA hai| ___manuSyake zatasAMvatsarika jIvana meM AyuSyakA bhAga vahI mAnanA cAhie jisameM soddezya karmakI ArAdhanA kI gaI ho / paNDitajIkA jIvana usIkA nidarzana hai / vizvake divya kopameM jo AyuSya rUpI amRta hai, usakA zatadhAra pravAha paNDitajIko prApta ho yahI Izvarase prArthanA hai-- "AyurasmAsu dhehi, amRtatvam AcAryAya / " " AcArya amara hoM-jJAna amara ho, use amara banAneke liye ziSyoMkI kar3iyAM jur3atI raheM /

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zrImAna paMDita zrI sukhalAlajI munirAja zrI puNyavijayajI vidyAguruzrImAna paDita sukhalAlajI mArA vidyAguru che. ApaNA jIvananI pragati mATenAM je vividha agA che temAM vidyAguru e eka viziSTa aMga che. mArA jIvanamAM me' je anekAneka sAdhu vidyAguru ane gRhastha vidyAgurue meLavyA che. e saumAM sarvocca sthAna huM be vyaktine ApuM chuM. temAM prathama sthAna pUjyapravara, satata nApAsanAparAyaNa, aneka jJAnabhaDArAnA uddhAraka, vyavasthApaka ane zrI jaina Atmanada graMtharatnamALAnA saMpAdaka zrI caturavijayajI mahArAjanu che, je mArA dIkSAguru ane zikSAguru che. jIvananA caudame varSe mane mArI janmadAtrI ane dhadAtrI mAtAe (je Aje vRddhAvasthAmAM jIvaMta che ane jemanuM nAma sAdhvIjI zrI ratnazrIjI che ) temanA caraNamAM sapyA ane temanA ja zrIcAmAM huM dIkSA ane zikSA pAmyA. mArI ceAgyatAnusAra teozrIe atiyeAgyatApUrvaka mane aneka vijyeAnI jAte tema ja aneka paDitA dvArA kramika zikSA ApI. aneka prakAranAM kAryonI kuzaLatAnI prApti paNa mane temanA ja dvArA thaI che ane temanA jIvanamAMthI meM ghaNI dhaNI preraNA ane yAgyatA meLavI che. Aje mArAmAM je kAMi che tenuM mULa A gurudeva ja che. khIjuM sthAna pa MDita zrI sukhalAlajInuM che, jemaNe mane ekAMta AtmIyabhAve adhyayana karAvyuM che, tema ja prasage prasaMge mane aneka viSayAnuM jJAna pustakA dvArA nahi paNa meDhethI ja ApIne mArI dRSTine temaNe vizada banAvI che. mArA jIvananA yAga ja kAI evA vicitra haze ke jethI huM mArA jIvananA prAraMbhathI aneka prakAranAM kAryomAM parAvAI javAne lIdhe jIvanamAM adhyayana ati alpa karI zakayo chuM. tema chatAM mArA upara vidyAguruone eve prema teA ke jethI Aje mArI e UNapa TaeNArdanI najare nathI AvatI; chatAM e vAta teA dIvA jevI che ke mAruM adhyayana ati apUrNa che. A baMne guruoe mArA tIkhA svabhAvane AnaMdathI jIravIne paNu ane dareka rIte samRddha karyA che. e guruemAMthI eka guruthI ke je mArA jIvananuM sasva hatA te teA Aje svavAsI thai cUkayA che. paNa eka guru Aje vidyamAna che, jemanI pAse Aje paNu huM aneka rIte adhyayana karuM chuM. Aje jyAre paNa huM mArA A vidyAguru pAse jAuM chuM tyAre tethI, 10

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game teTalA kAryavyasta hoya tema chatAM, pitAnuM dareka mahattvanuM kArya cheDIne paNa mArI sAthe anAkuLapaNe pitAne atigaMbhIra adhyayana ane ciMtanamAMthI uddabhavelI anubhavapUrNa vAto kare che, jethI jIvanamAM navuM jJAna ane kuraNa jAge che. upara huM kahI Avyo chuM ke mArA jIvanamAM meM adhyayana ghaNuM ochuM karyuM che, te chatAM mArA vidyAgurIe prasaMge prasaMge anekavidha dArzanika, zAstrIya Adi aneka viSaye maDhethI ja evI rIte samajAvyA che jethI Aje lagamaga anAbadhapaNe huM mahAzAstromAM praveza kahI zakuM chuM. A rIte meM mArA jIsanama be guo dvArA jIvaMta preraNA meLavI che. temAM zrImAna paDitajInuM sthAna paNa ativiziSTa che. huM A baMne guruone aMtamAMthI kadIye visArI zakuM tema nathI. jJAnagAMbhIrya ane pratibhA-zrImAna paMDitajIe temanA jIvanamAM sarvadezIya jJAnanI sAdhanA karI che. temanuM jJAna koI eka viSayane lakSIne che tema nathI, paNa temanuM jJAna ghaNuM vyApaka ane vizvamukhI che. jainasaMghamAM temanI joDI bhAgye ja maLI zake eTaluM jJAna paMDitajI dharAve che. jenA dArzanika, Amika ane karmavAda viSayaka sAhityanuM temaNe ghaNA UMDANathI avagAhana karyuM che. vartamAna yugamAM jainadarzanamAnya anekAntavAda vize teoe talasparzI ciMtana karyuM che ane e vizenA saMkhyAbaMdha ciMtanapUrNa lekhe teozrIe lakhyA che, jene Aje jenAcAryo ane jaina munivarga AdarathI jue che. jainetara dArzanika sAhitya, upaniSado AdinuM adhyayana ane ciMtana paNa teozrIe eTalA ja UMDANathI karyuM che, ane jyArathI temaNe Igliza bhASAne svAyatta karI te pachI to temaNe seMkaDo pAzcAtya ane pautya vidvAnoe lakhelA tattvaciMtanapUrNa saMkhyAbaMdha graMthanuM avagAhana karI pitAnAM jJAnane amaryAdita banAvyuM che. e ja kAraNa che ke zrImAna paMDita jyAre paNa ekanA eka viSayane pharI pharI carce che tyAre paNa temAM navInatA ane prauDhatanuM saune darzana thAya che. patijInI pratibhA paNa evI che ke jethI teo pratyeka vidhyane gaMbhIra rIte svAyatta karI le che. Aje ATalI uMmare paNa paMDita ane zAstrathAsaMga leza paNa ocho thA nathI pitAnI prakRtine svastha rAkhavA paMDitajI ghaNI ghaNI lAMghaNo ane ardhalaMghaNI kheMcI kADhe che, paraMtu jJAnopAsanAnI laMghaNa teo bhAgye ja kare che. game tevI paristhitimAM divase ke rAte zrImAna paMDitajInuM tattvaciMtana nirAbAdhapaNe cAlatuM ja hoya che. 11

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zrImAna paMDitajI mAtra zAstraniSNAta kAzInA pati jevA paMDita nathI, paraMtu teo dhArmika, sAmAjika, rAjakIya bhASAzAstra Adi aneka viSayanuM UMDuM jJAna dharAve che. e ja emanA jJAnagaMbhIryanuM sAdhaka banyuM che. Aje mane bAsaTha varSa thavA AvyAM che. temAM huM lagabhaga mArA bALapaNathI ja eTale ke vIsa varSanI uMmare zrImAna paMDitajIne vidyArthI banyo chuM. meM paMDitajIne satata adhyayanaparAyaNa ane ciMtanaparAyaNa ja joyA che. vividha zAstronA vividha viSayonI temaNe eka ja daSTie nahi, aneka daSTie chaNAvaTa karI che. temAM vicAraparAkSukha sAMpradAyika bhAvanAne kadIye sthAna ApyuM nathI. te chatAM teozrIe sAMpradAyikatAne kadIye nirupayogI mAnI nathI, paraMtu e sAMpradAyikatA evI na hovI joIe ke jIvana-vikAsanA mArga ane satya-jJAnanI ArAdhanAmAM bAdhaka thAya. zrImAna paMDitajIe jenadarzananA A vyApaka daSTibiMdune lakSamAM rAkhIne je vidyAsAdhanA karI che tethI ja temanI dRSTi atigaMbhIra, satyAnveSI ane tAttvika banI che. dhAraNAzakti-zrImAna paMDitajI joke zatAvadhAnI nathI, te chatAM temanI smaraNazakti ati jIvaMta che. jIvananA AdikALathI temaNe je je adhyayana karyuM che e badhA viSe Aje paMDitajIne mATe tAjA ja jovAmAM Ave che. moTe bhAge adhyayana karanAra mATe evuM hoya che ke je viSayane jyAre abhyAsa karatA hoya tyAre te te sAjAtAjA hoya che, paNa pAchaLathI te nahivata banI jAya che, jyAre paMDitajI mATe tema nathI. dA. ta. paMDitajIne ApaNe koI saMskRta bhASAnA prayoga viSe kaI pUchIe ke A zabdaprayoga viSe kema samajavuM, tyAre paMDitajI siddhahemavyAkaraNanA adhyAya, pAda ane satra sudhAne naMbara ApIne ApaNane javAba Apaze e ja rIte bIjA viSayomAM paNa ApaNe pUchIzuM to te te vijyanA maulika rathAnonI yAdI ApavA pUrvaka ja paMDitajI ApaNI sAthe vAta karaze. dareka viSayamAM AvI tAjI smRti e paMDitajInI avadhAnazakti ke dhAraNAzaktine jIvaMta purAvo che. bIjI rIte ApaNe paMDitajInI dhAraNAzakti ane smRtine joIe. teozrI jyAre koI graMthane ke viSayane hAthamAM le che, tyAre eka ja graMthanI aneka vyAkhyAo ke te te viSayanA aneka graMthane ekI sAthe sAMbhaLI le che, ane tyArabAda kayA kayA vyAkhyAkAre ke graMthakAree kaI kaI rIte te te viSayanuM pratipAdana karyuM che, kyAM kyAM ekabIjAnAM maMtavyo judAM paDe che, te te AcAryonA pratipAdanamAM kaI kaI vizeSatAo che, ityAdinuM pRthakkaraNa 12

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* Aje yauvanAzakti sAmAna pati teo barAbara karI le che. seMkaDe pramANa aneka graMthasaMdarbhone smaraNamAM rAkhI tenuM AvuM pRthakaraNa karavuM e paMDitajInI dhAraNA ane smaraNazaktine sacoTa purA che. sAmAnya rIte lokomAM kiMvadantI cAle che ke "sAThI buddhi nAThI.' A kiMvadantI sAmAnya jaDa janatA mATe sArthaka haze, paraMtu jJAnopAsanApArAyaNa vyaktio mATe e kadIye sArthaka nathI, jenI sAkSI zrImAna paMDitajI pUre che. ATalI uMmare paNa paMDitajInI rasmaraNazakti sajI-tAjI che, eTaluM ja nahi, paNa te smaraNazakti Aje yauvanavaye pahoMcI che. zuM prAcIna kALamAM ke zuM AjanA yugamAM ApaNane AvA DhagalAbaMdha purAvAo maLI Avaze ke jemanuM jIvana ciMtanaparAyaNa hoya che. evI vyaktionI buddhi, smRti ke pratibhA mAMdagImAM ke mRtyunI anya kSaNa paryanta jevIne tevI ja rahe che. sthavirazrI vajasvAmIe Arya rakSitane jIvananA aMta paryata vidyAdhyayana karAvyuM hatuM. sthavirazrI Arya rakSitasUri ekaso vIsa varSanI uMmaranA hatA. temaNe pitAnA vidvAna ziSya ravira AryadurbalikA puSyamitrane jIvananA aMta sudhI vidyAdAna dIdhuM hatuM mAthurI ane valabhI vAcanAnA pravartaka sthavire paNa vRddha hatA. vizeSAvazyabhASya upara paNa TIkA lakhanAra AcArya jinabhadagaNi kSamAzamaNa chaThThA gaNadharavAda sudhI TIkA lakhatAM lakhatAM ke lakhIne svargavAsI thayA. AcAryazrI haribhadrasUri tattvArthanI TIkA racata racatAM ja palakavAsI thayA. AcAryazrI malayagiri Avazyaka sUtranI ane braha89 sUtranI vyAkhyAo apUrNa rAkhIne devalokavAsI thayA. chellA chellA nyAyavizArada nyAyAcArya mahApAdhyAya zrI yazovijyajI paNa saMkhyAbaMdha graMthane adhUrA rAkhI svargastha thayA. prAcIna yugamAM thaI gayelA saMkhyAbaMdha mahAnubhAvamAMthI be-pAcanI A vAta thaI vartamAnamAM paNa Aje vRddhAvasthAmAM rahelA aneka munivaro evA che ke jeo satata adhyayanaparAyaNa rahe che. AgamoddhAraka zrImAna sAgarAnaMdasUri mahArAjanA meM chellAM keTalAM suratamAM darzana karyA, tyAre temane ghaNIvAra vAyunI asahya takalIpha rahetI. traNa traNa divasa sudhI suvAya, besAya ke uThAya nahi. evI avarathAmAM paNa temanI pAse kAgaLa, pensila paDyAM ja hoya. A avasthAmAM je rakuraNa thAya tene pite tarata TapakAvI letA. A ja rIte jainetara ane pAzcAtya tatvaciMtAnI aneka hakIkato ApaNI sAme che. je uparathI ApaNane e khAtarI thAya che ke jemanuM jIvana jJAne pAsanAmaya ane tAvika ciMtanamaya hoya che jI ravi naladramaNi mA A

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temanI caitanyaktie jIvananI anya kSaNeA paryaMta jIvatI jAgatI ja rahe che. zrImAna paMDitajInI paNa cai :nyazakti sucArurUpe chavatI jAgatI jovAmAM Ave che. guNagrAhakatA----paMDitajInI daSTi haMmezAM gurugrahiNI ja rahI che. game te sapradAyanAM zAstro vAMce, game tevI vyaktinAM lakhANo vAMce ke game te vyakitane paricaya sAthe,--e badhAya prasaMgeAmAM temanI dRSTi guNagrAhaNI ja rahI che, e temanAM lakhANA uparathI ane temanI sAthenA vArtAlApa parathI anubhavI zakIe chIe. zrImAna paoNMDitajInuM guNugrAhakapaNuM }vuM che tenAM udAharaNA tA mArI pAse aneka che; paNa temAMnuM eka prasa MgApAtta TAMkuM chuM. eka vAra huM ane paMDitajI sAthe kheThA hatA,tyAre vArtAnA kAI prasaMga AvatAM temaNe AcAryazrI lAvaNyasUri viracita siddhasenIyA dvAtriMzikAonI TIkA ane munizrI dhrura dharavijayajIe taiyAra karela nihnavavAda Adi viSayamAM vAta karI ke--mahArAjajI! me' AthA joyA. vastunA pratipAdananI zailI game tevI he, paNa jyAre vyaktine vastu barAbara grAhya thai heAya tyAre vastunA hArdane te peAtAnA lakhANamAM utArI zake che, ane e rIte AvAM lakhANA tAttvika dRSTie AdarapAtra che. A te! mAtra eka udAharaNa ja ApyuM che. paNa paMDitajI sAthe vAtA karavAmAM anekAneka prasaMgeAmAM temanI guNagrAhakatA tarI ja Ave che. A guNagrAhakatAne lIdhe ja te hareka viSayamAM taTastha parIkSaNu paNa vyavasthita rIte karI jANe che 19 tr svAta trya--paMDitajIvanavyavahAramAM ane vicArAmAM hamezAM svataMtra rahyA che. petAnI vidvattA viSe temane kadIye abhimAna jAgyuM nathI. keAi prale:bhana temane kadIye AkarSI zakayu nathI. temanA jIvanamAM evA dhaNA prasaMge AvyA che, jemAM aneka judI judI vyaktie temane aneka rIte AkavA prayatna AdaryAM che, para Mtu jyAre temane khabara paDe ke A badhuM pralAbhanarUpa che, tyAre temaNe sAmI vyaktine sApha sApha kahI ja dIdhuM che ke- tamArA pakSamAM ke vADAmAM AkarSavA mATe ke amuka uddezathI jo A heya te ApaNA sabaMdha ahIM ja pUrI thAya che." paMDitajIne nAme krAi phaLa vecI khAvA mAge te te kadIye zakaya nathI. pAtAnI prajJAne gIre mUkIne teo kadI vAta karatA nathI. evA prasaMga upasthita thatAM ja teme tene kApI nAkhe. te peAtAnA vicAregamAM hamezAM svataMtra ja rahyA che. keAInAya gamA-aNa gama nI ke mAnApamAnanI temaNe A mATe darakAra rAkhI nathI. tema chatAM peAtAnA vicAra| ayeAgya bhAsatAM tenuM parivartana karavAmAM paNa te AnAkAnI kare tevA nathI. 14

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paMDitajInI sevA-zrImAna paMDitajIe vyApaka rIte jaina prajAnI je sevA karI che te cirasmaraNIya ja raheze. temaNe jaina tatvajJAnanA prAsAdabhUta sanmatitika jevA mahAna graMthane sazadhita karIne eka mahAna kArya karyuM che. te uparAMta pramANamImAMsA, jJAnabiMdu Adi graMthane suyogya rIte saMpAdita karyA che. devendraskRita karmano hiMdI anuvAda temaNe karyo che. Aja sudhImAM temaNe vividha viSayanA ciMtanapUrNa lekha lakhyA che. A badhAM kAryomAM kyAreka ekabIjAne gamatI aNagamatI bAbatono samAveza thavA chatAM vitta jena prajA paMDitajInI viziSTa sevAne svIkAra karaze emAM leza paNa zaMkAne sthAna nathI. aMtima nivedana--zrImAna paMDitajIe jIvanamAM ativizALa ciMtanapUrvaka vidyAsAdhanA ane ArAdhanA karI che, eTaluM ja nahi, paNa bhAI dalasukha mAlavaNiyA jevA pitAnI ja kakSAnA tattvaciMtaka ziSyane paNa taiyAra karyA che. uparAMta che. nathamalajI TATiyA, zrImatI che. IndukaLAbahena vagere aneka vyaktio mATe prauDha viSayanA mahAnibaMdha (thisisa) lakhavAmAM sAkSI ane preraNAdAyaka banyA che. aneka vidvAnoe emanI pAsethI gaMbhIra vicAre meLavyA che, ane mAro vizvAsa che ke paMDitajI potAnI jiMdagImAM ghaNuM ghaNuM karI jaze. chatAM ya mArI eka hakkadAra ziSya tarIke bhIkha che ke zrImAna paMchie pitAnA jIvanamAM adhyayana karatAM AcAryazrI siddhasena divAkara, AcAryazrI bhallavAdI, nimahattAputra zrI haribhadrAcArya ane yazovijaye pAdhyAya vize ane temanA graMtharAzi vize potAnA hRdayamAM je vyApaka ane gaMbhIrAtigaMbhIra vigatone saMcaya karyo che tene yathAsamaya mUrta rUpa ApI bhAratIya prajAne ane te sAthe jene prajAne samRddha banAve. mArI A bhIkha mAtra taTastha rahIne moDhAnI ja bhIkha nathI, paNa te aMge je koI sAdhane Avazyaka hoya te badhAya pUrA pADavAnI pratijJA sAthenI bhIkha che. te mATe ati Avazyaka Arthika sAdhanano paNa AmAM samAveza karIne ja huM bhIkha mAgI rahyo chuM. huM te varSothI AvI AzA rAkhuM chuM ane zrImAna paMDitajIne prasaMge prasaMge vinaMti paNa karuM chuM ane Aje gurugAna-prasaMge punaH paNa vinavuM chuM. zrImAna paMDitajIe prasaMge prasaMge uparyukta mahApuruSo viSe je TUMkI TUMkI nadhi karI che ane je bhAvo vyakta karyA che te joyA pachI anekAneka jaina vidvAna munivare aMtarathI mAne che ke A mahApuranuM tAtvika jIvana ane emanA graMthAzinuM tAtvika parIkSaNa zrImAna paMDitajI sivAya AlekhI zake evI bIjI eka paNa vyakti jaina samAjamAM tema ja anya samAjamAM che ja nahi. 16

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aJjaliH paM0 zrI rAmakuvera mAlavIya, sAhitya-pradhAnAdhyApaka vanArasa hindU yUnivarsiTI vabhUva yo bhAratavarSabhUmau saurASTradeze ramaNIyazome / yo lImalIgrAmanivAsabhUmiH zrIsaMghajInAmakavaizyasamrAT // 1 // sa saMghavIgotravibhUpaNaM sacchvetAmbaro jaina iti prasiddhaH / sarvasya lokasya mahopakartA premNA satAM mAnasamAcakarya // 2 // tasyaiva putraH kamanIyamUrtimahAprabhAvo matimAn sudhIraH / vAlye'pi yasya pratibhA pragalbhA zIlaM sadAnandakaraM budhAnAm // 3 // kAzImanuprApya gRhItavAnyaH zikSA viziSTAM kila devavANyAm / zanaiH zanaiH khyAtayazA vabhUva supaNDitaH zrIsukhalAlajainaH // 4 // nyAyasya jainasya samarthavettA tathA'nyazAstrasya sa pAradarzI / vidyAvibhUlA vinayena sadyaH saMkhyAvatAM mAnasamadhyuvAsa // 5 // nyAyaM tu navyaM samadhItya vidvAJcchrIvAlakRSNAdbhuvi paNDitendrAt / zrImAlavIyena mahAtmanA yo vidyAkRtaM gauravamAsasAda // 6 // sarasvatIpAdasarojasevayA tato guroraGghrirajo'nukampayA / yo vizvavidyAlaya eva kAzyAmadhyApako'bhUt prathito guNaughaH // 7 // vidyAsadabhyAsavimaNDitAntassupaNDitAH ke na bhavanti bhavyAH / parantu vidvAn kathito bhavAn yo manogataM saMzayamucchinatti // 8 // andho'pi yo dRSTivizepayukto lokeSu zAstreSu ca dRSTasAraH / kRzo'pi yo hyAtmavalapragalbho jitendriyaH satsu sulabdhamAnaH // 9 // kareNa yo lekhanazaktihInaH paraM prasiddhastu sulekhako yaH / tameva vidyAguravo'timAnyA adyasthitaM gautamamAmananti // 10 // zikSAsamudbhAsitamAnasAntaHziSyAstvadIyA vicaranti loke / sahasrazazcandramayUkharamyAM samujjvalAM kIrtimudAharanti // 11 // bhavadguNAnAM suranimnagAyAM snAnena vANI kila mAmakInA / atIvanarmalyamavApnuvAnA ke ke guNaM naiva tu saMnidhatte // 12 // bhavatsuhRd-rAmakuberasaMjJaiH sAhityavitsevakamAlavIyaiH / zrImatsu jainendradhurandhareyu padyaprasUnAJjalirarpito'yam // 13 // banArasa, 9-5-57 16

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A Pure-hearted Servant of Light Shri Gurdial Malik In the days of noise and show, quiet and consolidated work is rather rare. To me revered Pandit Sukhalalji, therefore, is a monument of such unusual achievement. His wide and varied and deep scholarship is reminiscent of Rishis of old. His unbounded zeel for, and pursuit of, knowledge have helped him triumph over handicaps of all sorts. Panditji, however, is not only -an encyclopaedia of learning, but he is also a man of character with socklike rectitude. Thus, he is, every inch of him, a devoted and dynamic seeker of the Word of which the Bible says, "The Word was God and with God." Panditji is, indeed, a pure-hearted and pure-minded servant of the Goddess of Light. My humble and reverent salutations, therefore, to him. May his shining example imbue me with ever-increasing and ever-deepening aspiration after, and inquiry for the Light "that was, is and ever shall be." 99

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Original Thinker. Dr. T. R. V. Murti Sayaji Rao Gaekwad Professor of Indian Civilization and Culture, Banaras Hindu University. I feel greatly honoured in associating myself in paying my respectful felicitations on the Revered Pandit Sukhlalji's completion of seventy five years of age. Panditji has dominated the world of Indian philosophy and religion for the last forty years and more by his deep scholarship and noble Personality. His philosophical writings on various topics and the scores of his learned and critical introductions and notes to philosophical classics will stand as abiding monument to his peculiar genius and scholarship. I came into contact with the Revered Panditji nearly twenty years ago when he was actively teaching in the Benares Hindu, University as the incumbent of the Jain chair of Logic and Metaphysics in the Sanskrit Mahavidyalaya. I have been privileged to enjoy his valued friendship all these years. Numerous were the occasions when we have had lively philosophical discussions on the roadsides or in his study; most of these just occurred without pre-arrangement, or set purpose. And seldom have I come back from these discussions without receiving new light or striking interpretations even on subjects which I thought I understood quite well. Of course, Panditji's scholarship of Indian thought is surprisingly comprehensive and deep; and his memory is phenomenal. I should however like to record what has specially impressed me in his personality. Pandit Sukhlalji is an original thinker, a restless one. He would look at a theory now from this, now from that angle; he would often-times revise and reverse his own previous conclusions on the subject. The open-mindedness of his spirit, his sensitivity to all aspects of a problem and his

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indefatigable persistence in the search of truth have impressed me as worthy of emulation. I have no manner of doubt that Panditji is an authentic and worthy representative of the spiritual line of Indian seers. It is not surprising that his outspoken and independant views have not found favour with some sections of Hindus and Jainas. A fearless thinker, a seeker of truth is not worried, as Panditji is not, by the thought of secular gains and losses. I have not known him utter an unfair or uncharitable remark about any person or get upset by adverse happenings. With few easily satisfied wants and an equanomous temperament, he has been a living example of a true philosopher, a Sthita-prajna. As an original thinker and as a man of striking spiritual virtues, Panditji has been successful in inspiring a circle of young men like Pandit Dalsukhbhai Malvaniya and others. This is not one of the least of the many services that he has rendered to our cultural life. May the Revered Panditji live for many more years amongst us as a beacon of courageous and spiritual insight. Banaras-5, 8-5-1957 19

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HP Pandit Sukhalalii ...: A Dynamic Litterateur Professor Dr. A. N. Upadhye, Kolhapur * Prajnachaksu Pandit Sukhalalji is one of the great Indian authors and thinkers : he has enriched contemporary learning and thought by his manifold writings in Hindi and Gujarati. If some of us do not know him, it is because our study and reading, nowadays, do not go beyond our specialised branches of learning and favourite languages : that is a hurdle which we must cross and understand and appreciate a writer like Pandit Sukhalalji who has rendered a progressive, purposeful and fruitful contribution to the wealth of human thought. The personality of Pandit Sukhalalji has manifold aspects. Those who have met him know that he has lost his eyesight at an early age. His figure is frail; and left to himslef, he would not catch the attention of anybody. But, if one gets an opportunity to discuss any serious topic with him, one will come to know within a few minutes that behind his frail figure there is a mighty spirit full of power, founded on extensive learning and equipped with an all round vision of multitudinous problems about life and literature. Pandit Sukhalalji's physical disability going with an outstanding scholarship and abiding literary output reminds me of that great English poet, John Milton. What Panditji really is, is not easily indicated from what he appears to be at the first sight. He is a gem of great lustre and value, but it is a matter of surprise that they are concealed behind a simple appearance. By his age Panditji belongs to the last generation; but by his vision and thoughts he not only lives in the living present but he is also ahead of his times. Those who have steadily read his articles and studied his works know

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that by his education, obviously of the traditional type, he is a Naiyayika (theologian-logician ), a Vaijakarana ( grammarian), a Darsanika ( philosopher) and a Dharmajna (religious expert), as far as his basic equipments go. But his format is something different from the hackneyed type. His studies of Nyaya and Darsana works like the Sanmatitarka, Pramana-mimamsa, Jnanabindu, Hetubindu and Tattvopaplavasimha clearly indicate that his equipments and consequent discussions have something characteristic about them. Nowadays the terms Indian' and * Bharatiya' are very often used but with a limited import. There are many writers who talk of Indian philosophy, but basically they do not go beyond the Vedanta of one school or the other, Whenever Panditji writes on any topic, it may be the theory of knowledge, the path of Yoga or the means of liberation, one finds in his writings a comprehensive study and a cosmopolitan outlook; and the material from the Brahmanic, Buddhist and Jaina systems of thought is ably marshalled and relevently focussed with a view to elucidate a certain topic. The keen intellect of Panditji pierces to the very core of signification behind the varied terminology employed in different systems of Indian thought. In our land there are few Pandits who have such a vision as is evidenced by the writings of Pandit Sukhalalji. It has become customary with our Pandits to find weak points in other systems than the one which they stand for and then criticise them with all the vehemence at their command. But Pandit Sukhalalji generally adopts the Anekanta mode of thinking and arguing, and he is an exception. As a Darsanika he finds in different religions a common ground which is conducive to the welfare of humanity. He worthily represents the line of great Indian Darsanikas like Samantabhadra, Siddhasena, Haribhadra and Hemachandra. Panditji possesses an insatiable thirst for knowledge and is out for an earnest search for Truth. 1

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Pandit Sukhalalji is one of the living authorities on Jainism. His studies in Jainism are all along carried on in the broad perspective of the Indian pattern of thought and learning. His exposition of the Sanmati-tarka and the Tattvartha-sutra, his studies in the Jaina Karma doctrine, his elucidation of Yoga, his appraisal of the personalities of Vrsabha and. Mabavira are solid contributions towards a sympathetic understanding of Jainism. Howsoever difficult a subject might be, in the hands of Pt. Sukhalalji its exposition becomes lively and thought-provoking. His interpretations of the Stutis of Siddhasena and of the Adhyardha-sataka of Matscheta clearly show that here is a scholar who can put himself at the point of view of the author himself and try to understand the circumstantial setting and the world of thought and learning which were responsible for the niental make-up and literary expressions of the author. Panditji has a typical method of study of his own. The realm of knowledge for him recognises no religious, racial, temporal and geographical barriers; and the human thought-process, as he understands it, is a continuous and connected flow. Naturally, unlike most of the Pandits, with whom he shares a thorough grounding in traditional learning, he brings to bear upon his studies the modern instruments of the historical and comparative method of study. This endows the writings of Panditji with an abiding and universal appeal. Pandit Sukhalalji has contributed a number of papers on religion and its effect on society. Religion for him is not a time-worn instrument only to be worshipped, but he wants it to be a living force to be employed for the amelioration of the society as a whole. He has never hesitated to explode the myths of credulity and exploitation in one form or the other. He would always insist upon the basic in the Religion, but not hesitate to allow the 22

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amplifications to fall in line with the progressive forces of the present-day times. The thoughts of Pandit Sukhalalji in this respect deserve special attention from all serious thinkers of religious values and social progress. There is something characteristic about the style of Panditji, whether he writes in Hindi or Gujarati. There is a simplicity: it is like himself : simple in expression but pregnant with signification. There is precision, and there is a pointed appeal in all that he writes. His Gujarati style reminds me of the chaste and simple expression in which Mahatmaji wrote his Atmakatha. Unlike Mahatmaji, Panditji is really a Pandit by traditional learning and training but when he writes on any social topic, his thoughts and expressions run very parallel to those of Mahatmaji; and one has to admit that these two great men, though working in different fields, have forcefully strengthened the Gujarati expression and style in this century. Their names will be remembered as successful moulders of Gujarati language as a vehicle of higher thoughts. If Pandit Sukhalalji meant, he conld have loaded his Gujarati expression with high sounding Sanskrit words, as was done by some contemporary writers in Maharastra; but he is a cosmopolitan by his Anekanta method of study : he has never written just for a handful of intellects but always addressed a wider society in a simple language with a view to make his thoughts as widely appealing and popular as possible. Panditji has a dynamic personality: not only is he an embodiment of simple living and high thinking, but he sheds round him an effulgent reflection of his mode of living and of his height of thinking. It is a pleasure to differ from him. When Panditji finds that there are basic differences, he lays them bare with searching arguments, with appealing illustrations and with humorous anacdotes; and then with a fund of worldly wisdom, with a sense of

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fairness and justice and in a pursuasive tone he argues out the entire situation. And when you leave Panditji, after such a treat, you find that you have returned definitely. viser and soberer. Panditji is a light of learning which enkindles your thinking power: wherever he stays, he creates round him atmosphere of study and progressive thinking. The enormous literary output which we owe to Pandit Sukhalalji is an outcome of extensive study and intensive thinking. Whatever subject he takes up for study, he invests it with originality of thought and cosmopolitan outlook. His expositions of Ahimsa and Anekanta are at once unique, and they present an essence of his deep learning. Panditji is a scholar, a teacher and even a preacher embodying in himself the best of their qualities; and he is all along struggling to educate the society round about him. 3rd April, 1957 Rajaram College, Kolhapur

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Pandit Sukhlal Sanghavi An Appreciation Manamalopadhyaya Vidhusekhara Sastri Pandit Shri Sukhlalji Sanghavi is one of the greatest Sanskrit scholars in India, of whom everyone should feel proud not only in this country but also abroad. He was born in 1880 A. D. at Limbli near Wadhwan (Kathiawad). His education began, as usual, in a school in which he read only Gujarati up to the 7th class. Unfortunately, however, owing to a virulent type of small-pox he lost his eyes being completely blind at the age of sixteen. But nobody then could have the remotest idea that this boy was destined to become a great Sanskrit savant in our country. Indeed, though he was deprived of his Marnsa-Chakshus fleshy eye', he was destined to be a Prajna-Chakshus 'having the eyes of wisdom' of the highest class. In fact, his real education began after his unfortunate blindness, when he had to depend completely on his reader. From the very beginning he had a genuine love for Sanskrit and Philosophy. From Kathiavad he came to Benares. There he studied Nyaya under the late Mm. Pandit Vamacharania Bhattacharya whom I am proud to call a satirtha (fellowstudent) of mine under the late Mm. Pandit Kailasachandra Bhattacharya. For his study he had to travel also to Mithila where he read under several teachers, the most prominent of whom was Mm. Pandit Balakrishna Mishra. Here a short event in his life happend which for its interestingness may be recounted. His pecuniary condition was not good, and it is well-known how a Sanskrit student lives in the house of his teacher. He had a sweater on his body which his poor Sanskrit teacher saw and praised. Pandit Sukhlalji offered it to him next day without thinking as to how he could pass the severe winter of Mithila, And what he did ? He passed the cold nights spreading over 74

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him a few bundles of straw covering them with a worn-out rug. In his student life he did not take more than Rupees 2 or 3 a month for his board. Such was his vow. From Mithila he came back to Benares, and here for some years he studied different branches of Sanskrit philosophy and literature for which he devoted all his time day and night, and thus acquired a comprehensive knowledge of Sanskrit literature as a whole, mastering most difficult works in it. By religion he is a Jaina, and naturally he studied Jaina Sanskrit and Prakrit literatures embracing all their different branches. On Jainism there is none who can be considered his rival. From Benares he came back to Gujarat. But before coming there he had passed some time in Agra being engaged in editing, with Hindi translation and annotation as well as his own valuable introductions, some highly interesting religious and philosophical books, such as. Pancha-Pratikramana, the first four Karma-Granthas, Yogadarsana and Yogavimsika. In Gujarat, he was appointed a professor of Indian Philosophy in the Puratattvamandira of the Gujarat Vidyapitha or the National University established by Mahatma Gandhi. The specially notable work he was engaged in there was the edition of big work covering not less than 900 pages with various valuable and useful indices and appendices of Abhayadeva's commentary on the Sanmatitarka of Siddhasena Divakara, the first author of Logic in Jainism. Here it should be mentioned that Pandit Sukhlalji in this great work was assisted by Pandit Bechardas Doshi of Gujarat, a renowned Sanskrit and Prakrit scholar and author. This work is in five volumes and not less than ten years he devoted in editing this. As already stated he is a blind man, and it is surprising to note that he undertook the work and finished it very creditably with his learned and precious notes showing his profound scholarship in every line. It will be interesting to

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note as to how a blind man as he was could edit such a book just as can reasonably be expected from a modern scholar conversant with scientific method of editing. He sits in his study surrounded by a number of his pupils or co-workers each with a manuscript in hand and he asks each of them to read out the variants one after another, he himself thinking over them deeply in order to choose the best reading that can be put in the body, other readings being relegated to the foot-notes. In editing the book he has done the most valuable and at the same time difficult work. In this work he had to work and labour day and night and so he was obliged to take perfect rest for some time. As a Naisthika Brahmacharin (a life-long celibate' as he is ) his necessities of life are naturally very few and he does not care to earn much, being satisfied as an ideal scholar with whatever he earns. From his honorarium or remuneration he maintains one or two assistants to help him in his work. From Gujarat he came to Benares Hindu University in 1933, being appointed there as the Professor of Jain Philosophy and retired voluntarily from service in 1944. During this time he wrote and edited a number of valuable works in Sanskrit, Hindi and Gujarati. His commentary and translation work both in Gujarati and Hindi of the Tattvarthasutra, which is widely studied in Jainism, by Umasvati who is considered to have been the first Sanskrit writer in Jainism, are most important for those who desire to understand the real significance of the text in clear and lucid language elucidating all the knotty points in the work. The introductions to his editions of the Jnanabindu and Pramanamimasa are real contributions to Sanskrit logical works. His elaborate commentary in Gujarati on the Sanmatitarka already referred to can be written only by a man of his calibre.

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* His edition of Pattvopaplayasiamha of Jayarasi Bhatta in the Gaekwad's Oriental Series deserves to be specially mentioned as it is the systematic work from the Charvaka point of view refuting all the different Indian philosophical systems. The Hetubindu is one of the most valuable works on Buddhist logic by Dharmkirti and there is a commentary on it by Archata. There are Tibetan translations of these two works, The Sanskrit of this tika is being edited by Panditji in the G. O. S. and this edition will contain also the sub-tika of Durveka Misra on it. The manuscript of the sub-tika was secured from some photographs taken by Mahapandita Rahula Sankrityayana in Tibet, which are preserved in the Bihar and Orissa Research Society. Pandit Sukhlalji is respected in learned society not only as a profound Sanskrit scholar but also as a man of character. He is free from all sorts of dogmatism of sectarianism. His thoughts are not bound by any narrowness as he always is used to view things in historical perspective following strictly pure reason and rationalism. It is for this that he is respected much more among the non-Jainas than by his orthodox co-religionists. For his liberal views he is sometimes called by them as a heretic even in abusive words. But as a true scholar he is not moved by it. For instance, one of his latest monograms entitled NirgranthaSampradaya is Hindi may be referred to. It deals with the customs and practices of Jaina monks giving comparative views as found in ancient Buddhist and Brahman works. Among other things he has discussed here the practice of meat-eating among the Jaina monks. Being himself a Jaina certainly it is no mean courage to assert that the Jaina monks once used to take meat in exceptional cases. It may be mentioned en passant that in this respect the only parallel to Panditji is Muni Jinavijayaji, a prominent figure in Gujarat and Bombay. in connection with the organisation of educational institutions,

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I can in no way conclude this brief appreciation without mentioning one thing which I consider to be the most outstanding trait of his character. He does not pay so much heed even to his studies as to the thoughts of the all-round well-being of his pupils. He is not satisfied with the superficial knowledge of his students, but always insists on their acquiring thoroughness of the subject, himself helping them as far as possible in every way, even arranging for pecuniary help. Pandit Sukhlalji is not a Sadhu formally renouncing the world, but truly speaking he is a real Sadhu. He has no home to live in. Yet he does not feel any inconvenience as he is a welcome guest wherever he goes. Modern Review : July, 1947: p. 45 to 47

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Champion of Justice and Truth Dr. Satkari Mookerjee, M. A.; Ph. D. Director, Nalanda Pali Institute. Our scholars, thinkers and philosophers, who have been nurtured in the ageold tradition of India, are still living examples of what India has aspired to achieve in the past, It is undesirable that the majority of the scholars of the indigenous tradition have failed to reach the standard required. But of the very few who still embody the ideal in their character and achievements, Pandit Sukhalalji is an outstanding representative. I wish to stress some of the traits in his character as a man and as a scholar, which mark him out from the majority and place him in a class apart. Fortunately for us, even in these degenerate days, Panditji has a few companions, and fellow-members who together with him form an illustrious band. His stupendous scholarship is too obvious. His learned editions of philosophical classics, his selections of correct readings from the mess of scribes' errors, his illuminating comments and annotations are unmistakable proofs of his mastery of the philosophical technique of the different schools of Indian thought. It is an object of admiration to scholars. Pandit Sukhalalji has set an example of learning and scholarship and insight, which is difficult to emulate. In precision of thought and speech, in the grasp of fundamentals, and in mastery of details, in the discrimination of subtle nuances of thought and expression which are apt to elude the grasp of even a careful scholar, Pandit Sukhalalji stands in the front rank. I do not know of many who can compete with him in these matters. What, however, distinguishes him is his extensive grasp of the cultural background lying behind the different apochs of upheavals of thought. He has before his mind's eye a

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clear picture of the milieu of Vedic, Upanisadic, the Buddhistic, the Jainistic and the later philosophical development, and his elucidation of the logical and psychological interrelations among these types of culture, almost compels acquiescence. What, further, has roused my admiration is his discovery of the unity in the midst of apparantly irreconcilable diversity in India's thought-movement in the past. He also has discovered for us the etimology of the diverse courses of thought. His long introductions to his editions are each a thesis, which can entitle a scholar to the highest doctorate degree of my University. They amply testify to his historical insight, which is born of objective knowledge and correct apprasal of India's thought-movements. The professional historian, who takes pride in the chronological data, should do well if he calmly studies the interconnexions of the thought-life of India in the past as has been unfolded by Panditji Real history of India can be written only by those who can understand the inner life of a people. Mere chronicle of external events is more often than not calculated to give a misleading picture. I hope and trust that the future historian of India will not shirk the labour involved in the task, and the learned contributions of Panditji will show him the way. I cannot decide what is the strongest point in Panditji's scholarship. His mastery of the abstruse arguments of Nyaya and Mimamsa is on a par with that of Buddhist and Jaina philosophy. It is difficult for me to accord the palm of superiority to this or that side. His written contributions do not represent a fragment of his learning. His knowledge of Sanskrit grammer, poetics, and bellesletires has not had an opportunity for self-expression. Here the man is uncomparably greater than what his recorded contributions show. He is really versatile scholar, and his versatility is all the more astounding because of the thoroughness and depth of knowledge of the specialist in each

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branch, India ought to be proud of such a man with such a capacious intellect. I am afraid that in this attempt at the assessment of his erudition and scholarship, I have not been able to do a particle of justice to the sayant. As a man he is unique. I feel puzzled when I try to compare his intellectual greatness with his moral elevation, He does not hanker after celebrity. He successfully parries all attempts of his admirers to express their appreciation of his merits. Personal honour does not appeal to him. Nobody can hope to win him by flattery, even when it is based upon genuine recognition of his worth. What he wants is the triumph of truth and love of knowledge. If a man is to be known by the company he keeps, a scholar is to be judged by the students, he has trained. Meet any student of Pandit Sukhalalji and test him and you will invariably find in him a disinterested love of knowledge. I have known from personal experience that his students are indifferent to worldly prospects and are imbued with a passion for knowledge. Such an achivement of success will not be eacily believed in the present day academic circles. Panditji loves a life of voluntary poverty. Being a lifelong bachelor, and leading a scrupulously celibate life, he has narrowed down his material needs to the minimum limit, He fails to understand why a scholar should covet money and material passessions. Sometimes his standard appears to us as too exacting. But it has conferred an inestimable privilege upon him, viz., immunity from humouring the rich, or the man in power. I wish that we could approximate to his standard even from a respectable distance. Pt. Sukhalalji is an outspoken man. No false courtesy or sense of etiquette deters him from speaking a truth, because it may not please a rich man or an ambitious scholar who wants to win cheap-laurels. Naturally, rich man who are accustomed to approval of all their acts and fads and also easy-going scholars, scrupulously avoid him from a

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distance. He will on no account lower his standard. He insists on thorough knowledge of Sanskrit and thorough study of texts in his students. He does not believe in the gathering of references, and quotations, without study of the texts in which they occur, which is regrettably the fashion among cheap researchers of our time. As a thinker he is absolutely independent. His allegiance is always to truth, and never to a fashionable opinion. He holds brief for none and does not hesitate to champion the cause which he thinks, stands for justice and truth. He will not flatter even men of his own community by praising their system and customs beyond their due. He will not denounce other schools simply because they uphold views different from those championed by Jaina philosophers. Pt. Sukhalalji is not only in the habit of not humouring the rich but also is not afraid of criticising the custodians of Jaina faith for any remissness in their conduct or their failure to live up to the standard. It is not a matter of surprise, therefore, that neither the Jaina community nor the academic bodies have come forward to honour him in public. We know that Panditji is far above the weakness of average academic men of our class, who have a real liking for the appreciation of their scholarship. But whatever may be the attitude of the scholar himself, no excuse can exempt us from the charge of dereliction of duty, that we have failed to show our recognition of the services of a savant, to whom the immortal gratitude of the Jaina community and of the students of Indian thought is due. must congratulate the authorities of the Jaina Ashram of Banaras Hindu University on the wisdom, though belated, for a public demonstration of their appreciation of this unostentatious scholar of whom the whole of India should be proud. Had he been born in the time of Vikramaditya, or of Bhojaraja, nothing would have been withheld from him. It is better that we have turned the corner and let us hope that this is rather a beginning 23

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and not the end. It behoves all those who are interested in Jainology to perpetuate his memory in a fitting fashion. I may suggest one or two measures in this direction. We should endow a chair in his name in the Banaras Hindu University and should found a college bearing his sacred name. We ought to erect a statue in his honour. By these measures we can show that the present generation is capable of honouring a scholar equally with our political heroes. I know that these things are superfluous, so far as Panditji is personally concerned. He has made himself immortal by his contributions. But unless and untill we do something grand and stupendous conformably to his prodigious scholarship, we shall not be able to escape the censure from posterity of being dubbed as a generation of philistines. From the address delivered on the occasion of unveiling the protrait of Panditji in the Parsvantha Vidyasrama, Banaras, April 1949. 36

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anayana netA paM0 zrI mahendrakumArajI nyAyAcArya 'jJAnodaya'kA sampAdana karate samaya maiMne zraddheya paMDita sukhalAlajIke saMkSipta paricayameM 'anayana netA' zabda likhA thaa| sacamuca paMDitajIkA kisIne apane pIche nayana nahIM kiyA, ve kisI paramparA vizvAsa yA vicArake dAsa nahIM vane / unhoMne unmukta manase, pratyeka vicArakI aitihAsika vikAsabhUmi jAnI aura kAlacakrakI anavarata parivartanadhArAmeM usa vicArakI zAzvata rUTatAkI thAha lii| manuSyako pUrvajanmake karmavandha jo bhI rahate hoM, para isa janmameM vaha mAtApitA, kuTumba, guru, zikSaka, samAja Adise kulAcAra, dharmAcAra, samAjAcAra aura dezAcAra Adike nAma para jo prApta karatA hai ve bhI kama nahIM haiN| inhIMkI pakar3a aura jakar3ase usakI antarAtmA apanA svatva khokara jaDaprAya aura yantrAlDa jaisI bana jAtI hai| saMskRtike nAma para isa navanItasama vAlakako saba apane apane DhAMce aura sAMce meM DhAlanekA saMgaThita prayatna karate haiN| jo AtA hai, zikSA dIkSA aura saMskArake rUpameM isake mastiSkarUpI kore kAgaz2a para apane nizAna banA detA hai| manuSya jaba bAliga hotA hai aura kucha socane-samajhane lAyaka hotA hai, to ye hI agRhIta aura gRhIta saMskAra usake sAmane khar3e ho jAte haiN| eka to usakI socane-samajhane aura karanekI dizA hI ina baddha saMskAroMkI dhArAmeM itanI jakar3I hotI hai ki use dUsarI vAjUke svatantrabhAvase vicArakA avasara hI nahIM aataa| kadAcit kAlalabdhi A gaI aura isa prakArake satsaMga Adi mila pAye to ye isa janmake sAre bandhana apane pUre valase usakI sAMsako hI rUMdha lete haiN| aisI jJAta-ajJAta sahaja yA sAMskArika paristhitiyoM meM virale hI svayaMvuddha hokara una bandhanoMkI jaTAjAlase apane jIvanako mukta kara Upara uTha pAte haiN| mujhe yaha kahane meM jarA bhI saMkoca nahIM hai ki paMDitajI una virala sAdhakoMmeM haiM jinhoMne apanI pUrI antaHzaktise isa dizAmeM prayAsa kiyA hai aura isa vandhanamuktikA Ananda pAyA hai| unake muktamanase siddhasena divAkarakA yaha vAkya kitanA pyArA aura jAnadAra lagatA hai 'mRtarUDhagauravAdahaM na jAtaH prathayantu vidviSaH / ' -~-purAnI kabra para kevala phUla car3hAneke liye maiMne janma nahIM liyA hai| isase yadi hamAre virodhI bar3hate haiM to vddh'eN| divAkarakI isa jyotimeM ve varAvara bar3he cale aura usakA pariniSpanna phala bhI apane isI jIvana meM pA sake / usa nirmukta AnandakI kyA upamA ho

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sakatI hai, jisameM magna yaha sAMdhaka jagatke vaibhava, yaza aura kIrtike AvaraNoMke usa pAra satyakI jyotiko apane sudRr3ha hAthoMmeM thAme hue jyotise jyoti jalAtA huA anAsakta calA jA rahA hai| 'caraiveti caraiveti 'kA jItA jAgatA nidarzana yaha usI jyotike bala para dRSTi-kAntArako pAra kara antima jIvanake amUlya kSaNoMmeM sacamuca zItIbhRta aura zAnta ho naI pIr3hIkI uSA-lAlimAse prANa aura jIvana pAnekI AzA vaTore hue Aja bhI calA hI jA rahA hai, calA hI jA rahA hai| __jahA~ unake jIvana meM eka ora yaha sAdhanA aura upAdAnakI amara-jyoti prajvalita huI hai vahIM usI parimANameM kisIke anyAya aura apamAnako na sahanekA tIkSNa teja bhI bhAsamAna hai| ve mAghake isa zlokako kitanI dRr3hatA aura AtmacetanAse par3hate hai ki sunanevAle zavaprAyameM bhI eka bAra nirbhayatA aura cetanA bhamaka uThatI hai_ 'mA jIvan yaH parAvajJAduHkhadagdho'pi jIvati / tasyAjanirevAstu jananIklezakAriNaH // ' -jo dUsareke apamAnake duHkhameM jalatA huA sisakatA hai usakA na jInA hI acchA hai| mAtAko kleza denevAle usa pAmarakA janma hI nahIM huA hotA. to acchA thaa| . spaSTa aura sayukti kintu namra zabdoMmeM anyAyakA prativAda karanA paNDitajIkA apanA svabhAva hI bana gayA hai; aura isa taraha eka ora jahA~ satyakI sAdhanA aura nyAyakI upAsanAse unhoMne mAnavatAke mandirako Alokita kiyA hai, vahA~ asatyakA prativAda aura anyAyakA nirAkaraNa karake kaMTakazuddhi bhI kI hai aura naI pIr3hIko usa mandira taka jAnekI pagaDaMDI to avazya hI banA dI hai| paMDitajI anyAyake pratikAra yA asatyake prativAdameM 'vajrAdapi kaThora' hokara bhI sAthI, par3ausI aura saMparka meM AnevAle vyaktike sukha-duHkhameM 'kusumAdapi mRdu' haiN| kitane vyavahArajJa aura komala hRdaya haiM ve isakA eka prasaGga mujhe varAvara yAda hai| merI patnI suzIlA eka bAra vImAra par3I aura paMDitajI use dekhane Aye, to maiMne usakI icchAnusAra paMDitajIko mausaMvIkA rasa pIneko nikaalaa| hama sabake atyanta Agraha karane para bhI paMDitajIne vaha rasa nahIM piyA aura yahI eka vAkya kahA ki 'yaha to vImAra ke liye hai|' kauna itanA sUkSmaH vicAra karatA hai aura vyavahArarukSa vanakara bhI use nibhAtA hai ? ve apane nizcayake pakke haiN| dUsarekA kamase kama avalambana lenekI unakI vRtti itanI paka gaI hai ki kabhI kabhI nikaTake sAthiyoMko bhI phIkA lagane lagatA hai|

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yahI nirapekSa vRtti unake jIvanakA sahaja paripAka hai jise ve atyanta zArIrika parAdhInatAke rahate hue bhI bar3hAte cale jAte haiN| eka dina unhoMne apane jIvanake AnandakA nicor3a batAte hue kahA ki mere itane sahaja mitra aura itanI dayAmUrti bhaginiyoM kA maMDala bana gayA hai ki unake manake eka mRdu kone meM bhI sthAna banAkara maiM apaneko brahmAnandIse kama nahIM mAnatA / sAhityasAdhanAko ve carama puruSArtha nahIM maante| ve kahA karate haiM ki merI sAhityasAdhanA to meM apanI paratantra paristhitike kAraNa hI isa umrameM calA rahA hU~, vastutaH rasa to mujhe pratyakSa racanAtmaka kArya aura mAnavasevAmeM hI hai| maiM kabhI kabhI akulA jAtA hU~, para kyA karU~ ? jaba jaba bhI khAlI vaiThatA hU~ to sAmAjika aura rASTriya mArgakI hI bAta sadA socatA hU~ aura sadA apanI naI pIr3hIkI aura AzAbharI antardRSTise dekhatA hU~ ki ye sAmAjika jIvana meM vikasita hokara kucha mAnavatAke vikAsameM yoga deNge| unake vicAra harakSetrake liye sunizcita haiN| unakI yaha sIkha hamezA rahI hai ki jisa kSetrameM jAo, pUre mana aura pUrNa zaktise prAmANikatApUrvaka jutto| jaba taka vidyA aura sAhityakI upAsanA karanI hai taba taka anya pravRttiyoMke mArgako samajho to, para unameM citta na vttaao| maiM jaba 'nyAyavinizcaya' aura 'tattvArthavArtika' AdikA sampAdana kara rahA thA tava unhoMne mujhe eka vAkya kahA ki-" paMDitajI, vidyAkI gaharI upAsanA karanI ho to kisI saMsthAke saMcAlaka na bananA aura vi.sI patrake saMpAdaka na bnnaa|" maiMne samajhA ki paMDitajI apanI zArIrika paratantratAke kAraNa zAyada aisA kaha raha haiM, para mujhe apane choTese jIvana meM ina donoM satyoMkA aisA sAkSAtkAra hI nahIM huA, kintu aisA tAtkAlika AghAtasA lagA ki mujhe paMDitajIke ye vacana 'upAdAnako majabUta banAo aura jo ho nirbhayatA aura nirapekSabhAvase likhate clo| yadi usameM satya hai to pracAraka apane Apa juTa jAya~ge 'yadi mArgadarzaka na hote to una paristhitiyoMmeM cittakA samAdhAna honA kaThina thaa| jaina paramparAmeM samyagdarzanakA bar3A mahattva hai aura sacamuca dRSTi spaSTa hue vinA sArI pravRttiyA~ nirarthaka hI nahIM anarthaka bhI ho jAtI haiN| isa dRSTiko paMDitajIne jIvanake pratyeka kSetrameM pUrI taraha prApta kiyA aura jJAnake kSetrameM sAmpradAyika matAgrahoMse mukta hoM vicAra karanekI udAra paramparAkA bIjavapana kiyaa| sanmatitarkakA sampAdana unakI bahumukhI prajJA, bahuzrutatva aura udAra dRSTikA jItAjAgatA udAharaNa hai| dArzanika adhyayanakA to vaha koza hI hai|

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unhoMne samAja, dharma aura rASTrake liye samaya samaya para jo nivandha likhe haiM ve sAhityakI sthAyI nidhi haiM; ve svAdhyAya aura mananakI bahumUlya sAmagrI haiM / . __ saMyogakI vAta hai ki mujhe apane jIvanako vanAne aura thor3I bahuta vidyAniSThA aura dRSTi prApta karanemeM jinakA sahArA milA unameM do prajJAcakSu hI mukhya haiM / jaba maiM san 1929 meM nayA nayA nyAyatIrthazAstrI vanakara apane janmasthAna khuraIkI pAThazAlAmeM adhyApaka niyukta huA to vahIMke seTha dIpacandrajIne DherakI Dhera cunI huI pustakeM mere adhyayanake liye sAmane rakha dI aura kahA-'beTA, aba tuma inake par3haneke lAyaka ho gaye ho| dUsare RSiyoMne bhI apanI jIvanasAdhanAse jo tattvajJAna diyA hai vaha bhI kama mahattvakA nahIM hai|' ye aba svargavAsI ho gaye haiM, para jabataka jIvita rahe tavataka vaidyaka, jyotiSa, kurAna, vAIvala, yogavAsiSTha, rAmAyaNa, mahAbhArata, darzanake vividha mUla grantha AdikA vAcana satata usa choTIsI nagarImeM karate rahe aura rAtake do-do baje taka yaha sAdhaka jJAnakI upAsanAmeM lIna rahatA thA / san 1930 meM maiM syAdvAda vidyAlaya, vanArasameM adhyApaka huA aura san 1933 meM zraddheya paM0 sukhalAlajI banArasa hindU vizvavidyAlayameM jainadarzanake prAdhyApaka hokara Aye / pahalI hI bheTameM inhoMne apane jJAnakozakI kuMjI mujhe sauMpate hue kahA-'paMDitajI, abhI umra hai, sAdhana hai, yaha kSetra hai, jo cAho kara sakate ho|' unhIMke sanmatitarkako Adarza mAnakara nyAyakumudacandrakA saMpAdana prArambha kiyA aura ATha varSa taka jisa grantharAzikA avagAhana kiyA, sacamuca usane aura paMDitajIse prApta vicArasAmagrIne merI A~khe hI khola dIM / maiM isa 'pazyatyacakSuH 'ke jIvanta nidarzana, anayana netA aura dRSTidAtAko zraddhAJjali arpita karake dhanya ho rahA huuN| una jaisA svatantra vicAraka, sUkSma cintaka, gabhIra jIvanazodhaka aura atula mAnavatopAsaka yugoM yugoMmeM virala hote haiM / Atmazaktiko vAhyonmukha karanevAle ye carmacakSu jaise hI mUMde ki unheM antaHkI sahajanidhi mila gii| prAcIna zAstroMke agAdha pAMDityake sAtha sAtha dambha aura ahaMkArake nAgapAzoMse mukta ho unane mAnavatAsparzI vicAroMkA jo Akalana kiyA hai vaha una jaise vidyAtmAkA hI viziSTa kArya hai / ve hamAre bIca kamase kama 'jIvema zaradaH zataM' yAnI zataka to avazya pUrA kareM / unake AsapAsa kali sacamuca nahIM phaTakatA; jJAnakI surabhi hI surami cAroM ora phailatI hai / ve cirakAla taka isa suvAsako vakherate raheM / 21-1-57, hindU vizvavidyAlaya, banArasa

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dRSTivihIna draSTA ! zrI bhaMvaramala siMghI ema. e., sAhityaratna hamAre A~kheM haiM jinase hama hara roja, hara ghar3I duniyAko dekhate haiM aura jo chApa dekhI huI vastuoM kI hama para par3atI hai, usase hamAre manana aura cintana meM bar3I sahAyatA prApta hotI hai, parantu hama gaMbhIratA se soceM aura jIvanadRSTi aura jIvanake cintanakI kasauTI para apane Apako kaseM to yaha samajhane meM dera nahIM lagegI ki hamameMse bahuta kamako saccI jIvanadRSTi prApta ho pAtI hai / hama dekhate haiM, para dekha nahIM pAte; hamAre A~kheM haiM, para unakI pahu~ca vahAM taka nahIM hai, jahA~se jIvana- Aloka A rahA hai / hama aMdhe nahIM haiM, para hamArI jIvanadRSTi aMdhI hai / aura paM0 sukhalAlajI A~khoMse aMdhe haiM, para unakI jIvanadRSTi kitanI tIvra aura prakhara hai ! vidyAdhyayanakA vAstavika krama prAraMbha kiyA, usa vakta taka to unakI netrajyoti jA cukI thI, paraMtu dRSTi khokara ve to eka mahAn draSTA vana gaye / vicAra aura cintanake jina kSetroM meM aura jina kSitijoM para sahI-salAmata A~khoMvAle nahIM pahuMca pAte, vahA~ taka unakI prajJAke cakSu pUrI taraha khule hue haiM aura vaha prajJA-dRSTi vyakti, samAja, rASTra aura mAnava-jAtike hara praznakI taha taka pahu~ca jAtI hai / aura netravihIna vaha dRSTi kevala atIta meM kArAvaddha nahIM, kevala vartamAna meM sImita nahIM, vaha eka sacce samAja - draSTA kI taraha bhaviSya ke aMtarAla taka pahu~catI hai / isIliye maiMne unako hamezA eka bahuta bar3A paNDita hI nahIM, vicAraka hI nahIM, santa hI nahIM, yugadraSTA bhI mAnA; kyoMki maiM suprasiddha jarmana dArzanika spaeNgalarake isa kathaMnako bahuta sahI mAnatA hU~ ki ' kisI vicArakakI mahattA ke mUlyAMkanakI kasauTI merI samajhameM usake samakAlIna yugake mahAn tathyoM aura praznoMke bAremeM usakI apanI dRSTi hai / ' speMgalara hI kyoM, duniyAke bahuta sAre dUsare vicArakoMne bhI isI vAtako satya mAnA hai, evaM jora ke sAtha kahA hai ki jo vicAraka aura dArzanika apane samakAlIna yugakI samasyAoMko samajha nahIM pAtA tathA unako hala karanekA mArga nahIM batA pAtA, usake vicAra sArI dArzanikatAke bAvajUda kaur3I kAmake nahIM hote; vaha eka banda pustakakI bhA~ti hI raha jAte haiM, jisakA saMgrahAlaya meM rakhe jAnese adhika koI mUlya nahIM hotA / aise vicArakakI A~kheM jIvana ke samakAlIna tathyoM aura praznoMke prati vanda rahatI haiM / vaha paMDita to jarUra ho sakatA hai, para draSTA yA khaSTA nahIM ho sakatA / 39

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paM0 sukhalAlajIke kAyika netra banda rahe, para samAja aura rASTrakA koI prazna nahIM hai jisa para ve hamameM se kaiyoMse adhika na dekha pAte hoM / aura kevala dekha pAnekI hI bAta nahIM, ve una praznoMke samAdhAna ke liye vicAra dete haiM aura jina vicAroMse samAdhAna ho sakatA hai, una vicAroMkA agara purAne dharma aura zAstra vicAroMse mela nahIM baiThatA, to ve purAne vicAroMke kaidI na banakara nae vicAroMke vidrohI bana jAte haiM / ve cAhe karmagranthakI vyAkhyA kareM, cAhe pramANamImAMsAkA vivecana kareM aura cAhe umAsvAtike tattvArthasUtra ke viSayakA pratipAdana kareM, jIvanadRSTi vahI rahatI hai, jo yugako pahacAnatI hai aura yugakI samasyAoMke samAdhAna meM madada detI hai / dUsare loga isa sabake bhASyakAra to haiM, para unake vivecana meM yaha yugadRSTi nahIM hai; isalie ve una granthoMkI vyAkhyA to kara dete haiM aura bahuta pAMDityapUrNa vyAkhyA vaha hotI hai, para usameM draSTA aura sraSTAkI preraka jIvanadRSTi nahIM ho pAtI / javaki sukhalAlajI prAcInase prAcIna zAstrakA bhASya karate hue bhI isa yugadRSTiko sanmukha rakhate haiM, dUsare loga prAcInatAkI cahAradIvArImeM cakkara lagAte rahate haiM / isaliye jabaki dUsare loga nirdoSa vyAkhyAkAra mAtra raha kara nibha jAte haiM, paMDitajIke bhASya meM vicAroMkI vaha prakharatA A jAtI hai jo zAstrake dUkAnadAroMko jaldIse vardAzta nahIM hotI / ve zAstroMke ananya bhakta aura pujArI hote hue bhI unhIM zAstroMke bhASyakAra paM0 sukhalAlajIko apanese alaga hI nahIM, virodhI aura vidrohI mAnate haiM / hAlAM ki dharma aura zAstrakA bhI unhoMne jitanA uddhAra kiyA, utanA aura kisIne nahIM kiyA, paraMtu unhIMko sabase z2yAdA virodha aura nindA yA lAMchanAkA zikAra bananA par3A hai, paraMtu paMDitajIke khudake hI zabdoM meM, 'java svaccha dRSTise kucha kartavya sUjhatA hai, tava vaha binA kisIkI khuzI yA nArAjIkA khyAla kie usakI ora daur3atA hai / vaha kevala bhUtakAla se prasanna nahIM hotA; dUsare jo prayatna karate haiM, unhIMkI tarafa baiThe dekhanA pasanda nahIM karatA / .... usakA siddhAnta yahI rahatA hai ki dharmakA nAma mile yA na mile, kisIke liye bhI sarvahitakArI evaM sarvakalyANakA hI kArya karanA cAhie / ' yaha siddhAnta aura isake AdhAra para, vanI huI jIvanadRSTi hI paMDitajIke jIvanakA sarvastra rahA hai| unhoMne apane vAremeM likhate hue ThIka hI kahA hai' isa dIrghakAlIna zAstrIya aura vyAvahArika kAryake yajJake kendrameM to utkaTa jijJAsA evaM satyazodhanakI vRtti hI rahI hai / isIkI preraNAse mujhe aneka satpuruSoMse milane kA saubhAgya milA, isIne mujhe pantha athavA sampradAyake saMkucita 40

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gherese bAhara nikAlA, isIne mujhe aneka tarahakI pustakoMkA paricaya karAyA, isIne mujhe aneka bhApAoMse jAnakArI prApta karaneke lie prerita kiyA / isIne mujhe merI asuvidhAoM AdikA kabhI bhAna nahIM hone diyaa| isIne mujhe aneka sahRdaya, udAra aura vidvAna mitroMse milAyA, isIne mujhe choTe-bar3e kaI vidyAkendroMkI yAtrA karanekA avasara diyA / vizeSa to kyA, isIne mujhe vRddhatvameM bhI yauvana diyA aura adyAvadhi jIvita rakhA hai|' aura isI dRSTi aura vRttine hameM paMDitajIke prati hamezA Akarpita aura zraddhAvanata rakhA haiM / samAjakA, rASTrakA yA vyaktigata jIvanakA kisI bhI tarahakA prazna huA, hama use lekara unake pAsa pahu~ca gaye aura unhoMne samasta pahaluoMse usa para vicAra kara rAstA batAyA aura vaha rAstA sarvathA nirapekSa vicAra ke AdhAra para vatAyA / udAharaNasvarUpa, eka dina maiMne unase janma-nirodhakI vaijJAnika vidhiyoMke saMvandhameM bhI pUcha liyA / mere eka sAthIne kahA ki isa prakArakA prazna paMDitajIse pUchanA sarAsara tumhArI himAkata hai; para maiM varSoMse paMDitajIko dekhatA evaM jAnatA AyA hU~ / isa vAremeM unake vicAra jAnanA cAhatA thaa| 'jainadRSTise brahmacarya para vicAra' nAmaka unakA lekha par3ha cukA thA / paMDita jIne kitanA spaSTa uttara diyaa| unhoMne kahA-'adhika bacce paidA honese eka to vIrya-kSaya hotA hai aura dUsare samAjakA kSaya hotA hai| brahmacaryase donoM kSaya vaca jAte haiM, paraMtu java vaha saMbhava na ho to saMtati-nirodhake sAdhanoMse kamase kama sAmAjika kSayako rokanekA prayatna to karanA hI cAhiye / ' isI prakArase kaI aneka praznoM para paMDitajIkI sulajhI huI vyApaka dRSTi hama dekha cuke haiM / romA~ rolAMne eka dina kahA thA-'apanI dRSTiko vyApaka banAo, nahIM to tuma jo kucha socate ho, sava naSTa ho jAyagA / saMsArake samasta naye aura svatantra vicAroMko grahaNa kro| Aja tuma apanA gherA banAkara baiThe ho aura usameM tumhArA dama ghuTa rahA hai / usa gheremeM gaurava cAhe jitanA ho, para vaha jar3a vana gayA hai| usa ghereko tor3akara vAhara Ao aura khulI havAmeM sAMsa lo / ' paMDitajIne apane lekhanameM vAravAra 'pratyakSasiddha vaijJAnika kasauTI', 'niSpakSa aitihAsika dRSTi' aura 'udAra tulanAtmaka paddhati kA ullekha kiyA hai / isa dRSTivihIna draSTAkI yaha dRSTi kitanI abhinandanIya hai ! vyakti, samAja aura rASTra sabake kalyANakI samanvita sAdhanA paMDitajIkA iSTa evaM abhipreya hai aura unakA sArA adhyayana, adhyApana, cintana evaM manana isI lakSyako saMmukha rakhakara huA hai / isa lakSyako aura isa lakSyake pathikako hama vAraMvAra zraddhApUrvaka abhinandana arpita karate haiN| tA. 13-10-56, kalakattA 41.

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...... : pratibhAmUrti paM. sukhalAlajI ... zrI. aMgaracanda nAhaTA bhAratIya darzanake mahAna vidvAn aura maulika cintaka va lekhaka paM0 sukhalAlajIkI pratibhAkA saMvase pahalA paricaya mujhe unake 'paMcapratikramaNa' aura karmagrantha' 4 bhAgoMke hindI anuvAdase milA / mujhe choTI umrase hI dhArmika granthoMke adhyayana aura yathAzakti dhArmika kriyAkANDoM aura siddhAntoMko jIvanameM utAranekI ruci rahI hai| skUlameM dhArmika abhyAsameM pratikramaNake pATha kaMThastha to kara lie aura yadA kadA sAmAyika, pratikramaNa bhI kara letA thA; para ve pATha prAkRtameM the, isaliye usake artha va bhAva jAnanekI utkaMThA lagI rahatI thI / saM0 1983 -84 ke karIba maiMne jaba paM0 sukhalAlajIke paMcapratikramaNakA hindI anuvAda dekhA to mujhe bahuta khuzI huI aura isase pahale pratikramaNake jitane bhI gujarAtI va hindI artha aura bhAvArtha par3haneko mile una savase paMDitajIvAlA saMskaraNa mujhe bahuta uccakoTikA lgaa| isI samayake AsapAsa maiM kalakattA vyApArika zikSAke liye gayA, to mujhe mere mitra mohanalAla nAhaTA yA anya kisIse jJAta huA ki paMDitajI vahAdurasiMhajI siMghIke yahA~ padhAre hue haiM / hama unase milaneke liye gye| aisA prasaMga kalakattemeM 2-3 vAra milA / aneka vyAkhyAna sune, unase bAtacIta bhI kI, to unakI asAdhAraNa pratibhA aura pAMDityakA paricaya milA / eka vAra jJAta huA ki paMDitajI siMghIjIke yahA~ 'Anandaghana caubIsI' yA padoMkA vivecana kiyA karate haiM, para mujhe unakA vaha vivecana sunanekA maukA nahIM milA / . saM0 1984 kI vasaMtapaMcamIko hamAre guru zrI kRpAcandrasUrijI bIkAnera pdhaare| usI samayake AsapAsa paM0 sukhalAlajIke hindI anuvAdake sAtha cAroM karmagranthoMko par3hanekA maukA milA / usakI prastAvanA Adi vahuta hI mahattvapUrNa lagI / eka prajJAcakSu vyakti jaina dharmakA itanA gambhIra jJAna prApta kara use sarala hindI bhASAmeM itane acche DhaMgase apane aura granthakArake bhAvoMko vyakta karatA hai, yaha dekhakara unake prati zraddhAkA bhAva jagA va unake pAMDityakI gaharI chApa sadAke liye dila para aMkita ho gii| phira to gujarAtImeM likhe gae unake kaI lekha 'purAtattva' AdimeM par3haneko mile / isa taraha unakA prabhAva mere para dinoM dina gaharA hotA gayA / . . paMDitajIke virodhI mujhe unake sambandhameM viparIta vAta bhI kahate the, para mere para jo unakA gaharA prabhAva par3a cukA thA usameM usase kamI nahIM aaii|

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maiMne una virodhiyoMkI sadA upekSA kI / guNa-grahaNakI vRtti meremeM sadA acchI mAtrAmeM rahI hai / kisIke avaguNoMko jAnane va munanekI icchA utanI nahIM rahatI; para kisI vyaktike guNa aura vizeSatAoMkI ora merA jhukAva bahuta zIghra ho jAtA hai| phira to maiM paMDitajIke lekha aura grantha, jisa kisI patrameM yA jahA~se prakAzita hote prApta karatA aura unheM par3hakara jJAnavRddhi karanekA prayatna karatA rhtaa| unake va paM0 becaradAsajIke dvArA saMyukta rUpase saMpAdita 'sanmatitarka TIkA ke saMskaraNakI prazaMsA to bahuta munI thI, para saMskRtakA merA itanA jJAna na honese meM unakA svayaM anubhava na kara sakA, para java gujarAtImeM sanmatitarka unake vivecanake sAtha nikalA to usakI prastAvanA hI par3hakara mujhe lagA ki isa granthake TIkAvAle saMskaraNameM unhoMne kitanA zrama kiyA hai ! zuddha pAThake nirNaya aura arthake gAMbhIrya taka pahu~cane meM unakI cintanazaktine kamAla kiyA hai| tattvArthake hindI vivecana aura 'vedavAdadvAtriMzikA 'ke paMDitajIke vivecanako par3hakara mujhe bahuta Ananda huaa| siddhasena divAkarakI gAMbhIryapUrNa dvAtriMzikAoM Adike hArda taka pahu~canemeM paMDitajI jaise pratibhAmUrti hI saphala ho sakate haiN| aneka bAra apane praznoMkA sundara samAdhAna bhI paMDitajIse paayaa| aura apane mitra va maulika pratibhAsampanna zrI. zubhakaraNajI botharA Adiko bhI paMDitajIke pAsameM le gyaa| una sabhIko bahuta santoSa huaa| paMDitajIkI sUjhabUjha aura cintana-zaktikA aneka vAra paricaya milaa| unake ziSya paM. dalamukhabhAI, hIrAkumArI Adiko pratibhA dekhakara bhI prasannatA huii| unake pAsa jo bhI gaye va rahe unhoMne unheM acche rUpameM taiyAra kara diyaa| ahamadAbAdameM meM unase 2-3 bAra milA aura unase chAtra va chAtrAe~ lAbha uThA rahI haiM yaha dekha mujhe bahuta santoSa huaa| unhoMne likhA bhI kAfI hai aura prArambhase hI unakA lekhana sucintita aura jJAnavarddhaka rahA hai| naye naye vicAra unake sAmane Ate rahate haiM aura ve gambhIratAse una para vicAra kara pacAte rahate haiN| unakA zAstra-zravaNa bhI bahuta vizAla hai| jaina-granthoM taka sImita na rahakara unhoMne bhAratIya vaidika aura bauddha granthoMkA bhI zravaNa kara unake rahasyako pA liyA hai aura use vizAla aura vyApaka dRSTise hI apanI cintanapraNAlIke sAtha sabhI lekhoM aura granthoMmeM vyakta kiyA hai| pramANamImAMsA, jJAnavindu AdikI TippaNiyAM unake gaMbhIra adhyayana va vizAla jJAnAbhyAsa aura sucintita lekhanake ujjvala dRSTAnta hai| 43

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saMskRta, prAkRta, pAlI Adi prAcIna bhASAoM ke sAtha hindI aura gujarAtI para inakA samAna rUpase adhisAra hai| vIcameM jaba yaha * sunA ki 60 varSakI umra hone para bhI ve aMgrejIkA abhyAsa kara rahe haiM to bahuta Azcarya huaa| ava bhI unakI nitya nayA nayA jJAna grahaNakI pravRtti sUkhane nahIM pAI hai| 'jo kucha par3hA gayA vahI vahuta hai! aisA vicAra na karake jahA~ taka jIte haiM nirantara jJAnopAsanA aura jJAnavRddhi karate rahanA hI unakI jIvana-sAdhanA va maMtra hai| prajJAcakSukI avasthAmeM jisa tamannA, sAdhanA va adhyavasAyase itanA mahAna jJAnasaMcaya kiyA usakI zata zata valihArI hai ! saubhAgyavaza 75 varSakI umra hone para bhI Aja unameM yuvakoM-sA utsAha hai, saMyamI aura apramAdI jIvana hai, svayaM sIkhate aura dUsareko sikhAte rahanekI pravRtti nirantara cAlU hai| unake naye naye ziSya aura ziSyAe~ acche rUpameM taiyAra ho rahe haiM / unakI smRti aura zaktimeM zaithilya nahIM A pAyA, jisase abhI unase bahuta kucha prApta kiyA jA sakatA hai, isa AzAse mere hRdayameM harSa hilore le rahA hai| - paMDitajIkA sammAna abhI rASTrabhASA pracAra samitine kiyA aura ava abhinandana samAroha bhI zIghra hI hone jA rahA hai| para ye to hama logoMke Adara aura bhakti ke sUcaka haiN| paMDitajIkA sammAna to bhAratake nAmI vidvAnoMne kiyA haiM / jo bhI unake granthoM aura lekhoMko par3hate haiM aura unake saMparkameM Ate haiM unakA mastaka paMDitajIke prati nata hue vinA nahIM rhtaa| AnevAlI pIr3hiyoMse unakA mahattva aura bhI adhika prakAzameM AyagA; aura unakA maulika lekhana aura sampAdana aneka vyaktiyoMko lambe kAla taka mArgapradarzana karatA rhegaa| antameM yaha zubhAzA rakhatA hU~ ki paMDitajI jaise pratibhAmUrti hamAre samAjameM nirantara udita hotI rahe aura jaina vidvAnoMne jo bhAratIya sAhityake samutthAnameM mahattvapUrNa yoga diyA hai vaha kArya aura bhI Age bar3hatA rahe / paNDitajIkI dIrghAyukI maMgala kAmanA karatA huuN|

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