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________________ prabuddha jIvana me, 2017 kuti lekhaka | pRSTha jina-vacana hA, suvAsita thavAnI eka dhUna lAgI. dhUna AcamanA gajabanI hatI. samarpita thayA ane suvAsita banI mRtyunA paMjAmAMthI chUTI javAnuM sAmarthya dharAvato puSpa sAthe saMvAda gayA. eka vAtanI satarkatA jarUra rAkhI. bIjAne hoya te ja AvatIkAlanI icchA karI zake! suvAsita banAvavAnI khaTapaTathI bacyA, anyathA jassasthi maccuNA sakkhaM jassa ca'sthi palAyaNaM / sUrya ugyo. suvAsita banavA na pAmata. A ja che amArA jo jANe na marissAmi so hu kaMkhe sue siyA / / prabhAte pharavA mATe caraNa cAlyA. jIvananI gupta athavA pragaTa ladhu kathA. | (3, 24- 2 7) rasto puSpothI suvAsita hato, caraNa thaMbhyA mane lAgyuM ke A saMvAdamAM adhyAtmanA jene mRtyu sAthe maitrI hoya, je mRtyunA paMjAmAMthI ane puSpo sAthe saMvAda thayo. zAstrono sAra che. adhyAtmanA pracAranI ciMtAmAM chUTIne bhAgI javAnuM sAmarthya dharAvato hoya - tame gajabanA suvAsita cho, AnuM rahasya vyasta vyakti jIvanabhara azAMta rahe che. AnAthI ane 'huM kyAreya marIza nahi' evuM je jANato mukta thaI svaye zAMta thavA je samarpita thAya che te hoya te ja AvatI kAlanI icchA karI zake. - puSpo mauna rahI vadyA, AmAM rahasya jevuM pote ja zAMti pAme che. | *** He who has friendship with death, who kaMI nathI. hindI : saMta amitAbha anu. : puSpA parIkha is capable of escaping from death, or who knows that he will never die, can sarjana-sUci desire to see the next day. DaoN. ramaNalAla cI. zAha graMthita 'gina varSana' mAMthI 1, zaraNAgatinI anubhUti vagaranuM zaraNa (taMtrIsthAnethI) DaoN. sejala zAha 'prabuddha jIvana'nI gaMgotrI 2. jAgRti bhANadevajI 1. zrI muMbaI jena yuvaka saMgha patrikA 3. sAdhakanuM saMkalpasUtraH jayavIyarAya sUtra Do. ramajAna hasaNiyA 1929 thI 1932 4. zrI buddhisAgarasUri kathA padmazrI DaoN. kumArapALa desAI 14 2, prabuddha jaina 5, isuno mArga, krosano mArga phAdhara vargIsa vAlesa 1932 thI 1933 6. saptabhASI AtmasiddhizAstra sadguru Adezita saMpAdana mA, pratApakumAra ToliyA briTiza sarakAra sAme na jhUkavuM eTale navA nAme 3.tarUA jena 7. jainadharmamAM apavAda mArganuM svarUpa DaoN. chAyA zAha 1934 thI 1937 8. upaniSadamAM paMcakoza vidyA DaoN. nareza veda 4.punaH prabuddha jenanA nAmathI prakAzana 9. caturtha bAhyatapa rasatyAga subodhIbena satIza masAlIA 1939-1953 10. kSaNabhaMgura naTavarabhAI desAI 5.prabuddha jena navA zIrSa ke banyuM "prabuddha jIvana' 1953 thI 11. gAMdhIjI : saMkSipta paricaya-abhuta pustakano adbhuta anuvAda sonala parIkha zrI muMbaI jena yuvaka saMghanA mukhapatranI 1929 thI, eTale 12, 5. haragoviMdadAsa zeTha : prAkRta bhASAnA amara zabdakoSakAra AcAryazrI vAtsalyasUrIzvarajI 85 varSathI avirata saphara, pahelA sAptAhika, pachI 13, bhAva-pratibhAva ardhamAsika ane tyArabAda mAsika 14. jJAna-saMvAda subodhIbena satIza masAlIA * 2017 mAM 'prabuddha jIvana'no 65mA varSamAM praveza * 2013 eprilathI sarakArI maMjUrI sAthe prabuddha jIvana" aMka 15. sarjana-svAgata DaoN. kalA zAha saMyukta gujarAtI-aMgrejImAM, eTale 2013 eprilathI gujarAtI- 16. zrI muMbaI jaina yuvaka saMghane maLela anudAna aMgrejI 'prabuddha jIvana' varSa-pa. 49. A glittering sunshine of selfless compassion Prachi Dhanwant Shah * kula 65muM varSa 18. Practising Forgiveness in Difficult Situations Dilip V. Shah * 2008 oNgasTathI 'prabuddha jIvana ane paryuSaNa vyAkhyAnamALA saMrathAnI vebasAITa uparathI joI-sAMbhaLI zakazo. 96. Enlighten yourself by Self Study of Jainology Dr. Kamini Gogri * *prabuddha jIvana'mAM prakAzita lekhonA vicAro je te lekhakonA Lesson Sixteen (Continued) potAnA che jenI sAthe maMtrI ke saMsthA saMmata che tema mAnavuM nahIM. 20. The Story of Udayan Mantri Pictorial Story Dr. Renuka Porwal 82-83 prabuddha vAcakone praNAma 21, 'jo hoya mAro A aMtima patra to...' : pUrva maMtrI mahAzayo - je kaMI karI zakAya e karo - je kaMI thAya te thavA do! DaoN. caMdrakAMta zeTha 44 jamanAdAsa amaracaMda gAMdhI (1929 thI 1932) caMdrakAMta sutariyA ' (1932 thI 1937) prabuddha vuna he zArade mA~, he zArade mA~, ratilAla sI. koThArI (1933 thI 1933) tArAcaMda koThArI (1935 thI 1936) ajJAnatA se hameM tAra de maaN| maNilAla mohakamacaMda zAha (1939 thI 1951) tu svara kI devI hai saMgIta tujhase, paramAnaMda kuMvarajI kApaDiyA (1951 thI 1971) hara zabda terA hai hara gIta tujhse| jaTubhAI mahetA cImanalAla cakubhAI zAha (1971 thI 1981) hama hai akele hama hai adhUre, DaoN. ramaNalAla cI. zAha (1982 thI 2005) terI zaraNa meM hameM pyAra de mA~ / / Do. dhanavaMta tilakarAya zAha (2005 thI 2016) mukhapRSTha
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________________ Regd. With Registrar of Newspaper for India No. MAHBIL/2013/50453 ISSN2454-7697 * 'prabuddha jIvana' gujarAtI-aMgrejI varSa : 5 (kula varSa 65) * aMka : 20 me 2017 vikrama saMvata 2073 vIra saMvata 2543 vezAkha vada tithi pAMcama * * 0 0 zrI muMbaI jena yuvaka saMgha patrikA * * * (prAraMbha sana 1929thI) Urs gaat 0 0 chUTaka nakala rU. 30-00 00 vArSika lavAjama rU.300-00 mAnada taMtrI : DaoN. sejala zAha zaraNAgatinI anubhUti vagaranuM zaraNa grISmanI sattA dharA para potAnI pakaDa jamAvI rahI che. rastAnI potAnA mULane A vRkSo kaI rIte sAbUta rAkhI zakyA haze? baMne tarapha gulamahora purabahAra khIlyA che. sonabarganA jhUmakhAM dhIkatI astitvanI A judI oLakha kaI? prakRti anekavAra mUka saMdeza dharAmAM mAraganI suMdaratAmAM vadhAro karI rahyAM che. raMgIna phUlo saheje pAThavatI hoya che jene ApaNA baherA kAna sAMbhaLavA taiyAra hotA dhyAna kheMce, paraMtu je mANasa rastA para, doDavAmAMthI UMco nathI nathI. Avato tene zuM khabara ke lAla-pILAM raMgonA phUlo, rAtrInA tArAnI AtmAnA e ThaMDA-ramaNIya pradeza bhaNI javA mATe vaLAMkavALA A Rtuno AnaMda? AgharAM rastA levA paDe che. mohapAza kheMce paraMtu mana sthira rAkhI garamI vadhu ne vadhu erakanDIzanara tarapha svAbhAvika kheMce ane gati karavAnI hoya che. je AtmA para aneka bhAra ladAya che, tenAthI potAnI jAtane ThaMDA killAmAM pUravAno vakhata Ave, paraMtu A to vachUTI bahAra nIkaLavuM saheluM nathI ja. gamatAM mohapAzanuM pasaMda karela, samRddhino anubhava AkarSaNa...oha! e caDhANano karAvatuM kArAgRha, jarA anukULa agharo rasto maMjIle pahoMcIne bhAsatuM kArAgRha. dhIre-dhIre A aMkanA saujanyadAtA. AlAdakatAno anubhava karAve AkAzamAM vAdaLo gherAze tyAM sudhI che. A ghaDIbharano AnaMda manane to A sIdhA taDakAne ApaNe ja eka prabuddha vAcaka mohano anubhava karAve che ane mana jhIlavAnAM che, bheru mArA! | pharI pAchuM sunizcita thaI jAya che. ThaMDakanA sthaLo para javA mATe prAptinA AnaMdamAM rAcavA mAMDe che. parvatanA cakrAkAra rastAone oLaMgavA paDe, caDANa agharuM hoya mana jevuM sajAgatA khoI bese che, tarata ja mana nIce sarakavA mAMDe che, paga hoya ke vAhana, vadhu kALajI rAkhavI paDe. Toca para pahoMcIne che. ne nIce paDavuM paNa eTaluM jhaDapI hoya che jANe hAthamAMthI sarI prakRtinI sAthe thoDI nikaTatA anubhavAya, nIce gIcogIca manuSyanA jatI retI. eka vAra e lapasaNo rasto pakaDyA pachI gartAmAM ane nagarathI dUra, ghoMghATa vagaranA pradezamAM mana sthira thAya. AkAza pharI pAchA upara caDavA mATenI AkhI mahenata pharI karavAnI. pharIthI bahu dUra paNa sAme, sIdhA dekhAtAM parvato, gherA lIlA jhADo, rAkhoDI hAMphI javAya, ghaDIbharano AnaMda maLe ane mana potAnI e mATI, paMkhI vagaranuM AkAza. dUra nadInAM vahetAM pANI parathI dhIro- avasthAmAMthI nIce sarI paDe. kevuM che, ne prAptine sAva nagaNya banAvI uSNa pavana vahI rahyo che. prakRtimAM ogaLI javAnuM mana thAya che. detuM vAstava. jyAM pahoMcyA cho tyAMno bhAra na lAge ane tyAMthI urdhva UMcA parvatonA DhoLAva para A vRkSo sIdhA kaI rIte ugatA haze? bhaNI gatie javAya e mATe jarUrI che jAta prAptinuM abhimAna na A vRkSone DhaLI javAno Dara nahIM lAgato hoya? DhaLatI jamIna para thavuM. bahu ja agharuM che kAraNa jAta prApti eTale manuSya mATe potAnI * zrI muMbaI jaina yuvaka saMgha, 33 mahamadI minAra, 14mI khetavADI, e.bI.sI. TrAnsaporTanI bAjumAM, muMbaI-400 004. TeliphonaH 23820296 * oNphisa sthaLa saujanya : zrI manISabhAI doSI. * zrI muMbaI jaina yuvaka saMghano baeNnka A/c. No. baeNnka oNpha InDiyA CD A/c. No. 0039201 000 20260 * Website : www.mumbai-jainyuvaksangh.com * email: shrimjys@gmail.com Web Editor: Hitesh Mayani-9820347990
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________________ 4 prabuddha jIvana me, 2017 siddhinA AnaMdathI mukta rahevuM keTaluM agharuM che? meLavyuM hoya paNa ane bhautikatAnI samRddhi ane bIjI tarapha e hAthanI mULabhUta enA abhimAnamAM ke sukhamAM na sarI paDavuM. e prAptinI avasthAmAM saMskRtinuM patana. paNa jyAre meLavAtuM satya AMkaDA ane vastu rUpe paNa nirveda rahevuM saraLa nathI. e saMta jevA, jenI pAse pIeca.DI.nI dekhAtuM hoya, ane gumAvAtI jaNasa apratyakSarUpe hoya, tyAre kone paDI DIgrI AvI hoya paNa enAthI mukta thaI e DIgrIne kyAMya dUra mUkI che ke zuM gumAvAI rahyuM che? Aje prajAne AvI saMvedanazIla ke Atmika dIdhI ane potAnA AtmanA AnaMdamAM masta thaI sAdhanAmAM sarI ke AMtarika bAbatomAM rasa nathI. prajAne rasa che ke tamAruM jJAna gayA. Aje aneka lokonI vacce potAnI e vidvatAnA mohathI mukta jIvananAM varSonAM phaLarUpe, tamane zuM Ape che? bhautikatAmAM vadhAro thaI rAha darzAve che. premathI anekonA mana jItI vALe che mAnavatAnA karavA mATe tamAruM zikSaNa upayogI bane che ke nahIM? Ama, zikSaNa dharma bhaNI. evA ja bIjA sAMsArika saMpattinA bAdazAha, Aje e prajAne zikSita karavA mATe nahIM paraMtu arthopArjananuM eka sAdhana potAnI bhautikatAnA mohathI mukta thaI potAnA siddhAMta anusAra, banyuM. mAnavatA, saMskRti, mUlya keLavaNI hAMsiyAmAM dhakelAtAM gayAM. anekone madadarUpa thAya che. emane emanA nAmano ullekha nathI gamato enA pariNAme bhautika sagavaDo UbhI karAI, mAnavIya saMsparzanA ane ema karavAthI emano aMdarano sajAga manuSya mane kahe che bhoge. sejalabena, mane caDAvAnuM rahevA do.' potAnA vakhANathI dUra rahI AdhAra banatAM e avAjo, e sAthIo, e vaDIlonI samRddhi aMge vRkSanA majabUta thaDanA mULiyA jamInamAM keTalAM UMDA UtaryA che zuM kahuM? emane AvA lapasaNA rastA nIce nathI lAvatA, paraMtu ane thaDane keTalI majabUtAIthI jamIna sAthe TakAvI rAkhyuM che tenuM teo uttarottara vadhu ne vadhu potAnA mohathI mukta thaI prabuddha mahattva AMkanAra vIro ochAM maLavAnA. loko jue che ke kevA phaLa jIvanano ane tenA vikAsano bhAga bane che. AvA vaDIlo, sajAga UgyAM che. A phaLane toDI khAnArane rasa che phaLanA svAdamAM, nahIM vAcako pAsethI ghaNuM zIkhavAnuM che. jyAre bIjI tarapha potAnA kAma ke enI prakriyAmAM. mATe lokapriyatA mATe bhAgatA ane sattAnA ahaMkArI jIvone zuM ahIMnI gelerI/agAsImAMthI jAMbunuM vRkSa dekhAya che. A vRkSane kahevuM? "huM karuM, huM karuM e ja bhramaNAmAM jIvatA A manuSyothI 80 thI vadhu varSa thaI gayA che. thaDa jarjarita dekhAya che. ekamAMthI bacatA rahevuM, kAraNa emano mohAMdha AkhA jaMgalamAM Aga phelAve bIjI ane bIjAmAMthI trIjI zAkhAono ghaTATopa sahaja ja samajAya tevo nathI. je DALImAMthI jAMbu toDIne khAI rahI chuM, tenI jeTalI jokhamI avasthA A nAmAMkita hovAnI che, teTalI ja mULa zAkhA zodhavI agharI che, ane jAMbunA svAdanI vacce, e vagara adhUrA jJAna aMgenI paNa che. zikSaNa Aje samRddhinuM pradarzana kare che. kAraNanI kasarata karavAno, rasa paNa nathI. dhyeya che phaLa mANavAno. jAta jAtanA borDa Aje pravezI cukyA che. skUla e jagyA, gurukuLa paNa jo mULane saMvardhita karI, samRddha nahIM karAya to pachI phaLane kaI nAmanA arthane kyAMya bhUlI cUkI che. bhAratamAM vizva vidyAlaya kakSAnA rIte samRddha karAze ? ziziramAM A vRkSanA pAna kharI gayA haze. zikSaNano pAyo nAkhanAra aMgrejo. 1857mAM kalakattA, muMbaI ane navA UgyAM paNa haze ane hamaNAM varasAda paDaze eTale ugelA madrAsamAM yunivarsiTInI sthApanA thaI. zikSaNa, aMgrejonI kArobArI jAMbu paDavA mAMDaze. jamIna para jAMbuDI raMganA AkAro upasaze. savalata mATe zarU karAyuM hatuM. e mATe aMgrejI zikSaNanI AvazyakatA thoDAka ThaLiyA jamInane kharabacaDI karaze. bALako ThaLiyA ekabIjA hatI. tyArabAda bhaNelA lokone lAgyuM ke pragati mATe aMgrejI zikSaNa para pheMkI potAnuM nizAna sAdhaze, mammIo bagaDatAM kapaDA aMge jarUrI che ane prAMtIya, mAtRbhASAnuM mahattva bAjue mUkAyuM. eka bUmo pADaze. A nirdoSa ramata koI skUlamAM zIkhavADAtI nathI evA samayamAM manuSya jIvavA lAgyo jyAM pragati sAthe bhASA ane ane chatAM sAva sahaja, ramAtI A ramata sAthe, bALaka vRkSa ane te paNa aMgrejI bhASA ja Avazyaka lAgI. A pragatinI bhUkha evI prakRtinA A judA-judA svarUpane jovA pAme che. baMdha oraDAmAM hatI ke e mATe manuSya zuM gumAvato gayo tenuM te bhAna jALavavA kRtrima ThaMDaka vacce AvI ja philma ke citra bALakane dekhADAya che ane paNa taiyAra nahoto. eka tarapha, be hAthamAM dorAtI saphaLatAnI rekhA ene paryAvaraNa jAgRtino varga kahevAya che. mUlya zikSaNane nAme tA. 1lI eprila 2016 thI paradeza mATenA lavAjamanA dara nIce pramANe che. 1varSanA lavAjamanA $ 30 0 3 varSanA lavAjamanA $ 80 0 5 varSanA lavAjamanA $100 0 10 varSanA lavAjamanA $ 200/ vArSika lavAjama ApazrI $ (Dolara) mAM mokalAvo to $ pAMca beMka cArjisa umerIne mokalazo. bhAratamAM vArSika lavAjama rU. 300 traNa varSanuM lavAjama rU. 7500pAMca varSanuM lavAjama rU. 1250 dasa varSanuM lavAjama rU. 2500 zrI muMbaI jaina yuvaka saMghano baeNnka /c No. : baeNnka oNpha InDiyA CD A/c No. 003920100020260.
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________________ me, 2017 prabuddha jIvana keTalAMka lokonA jIvananI vArtAo, bALakone kahevAya che ane Aje zikSaNa ane zikSakone na samajI zakatA samAja vize bALakane e vibhUtinA phoTA ane philma paNa dekhADAya che ane vicAratAM du:khI thavAya che. eka peDhI jarjarita avasthAmAM mUkAI che bALakano mUlya zikSaNano varga pUro thAya che. pachI thoDAka vijJAna ane chatAM sahu koI bAhya pragatinA khokhalA samAjanI baDAI hAMkI ane gaNitanA sUtro sAthe joDAyelA dAkhalA gaNAvAya che. bhASAnA rahyA che. A bhUminI vizeSatA, vAtAvaraNanI vizeSatA sAthe sAva vargamAM pATha ane kavitAnI vArtA bALakane kahevAya che ane itihAsa ja cheDo phADIne beThelo mANasa ema vicAre che ke InTaranezanala ane bhUgoLamAM anukrame thoDIka tArIkho ane vAtAvaraNane lagatI zALAmAM abhyAsa karatuM tenuM bALaka bahu ja saphaLa vyakti banaze. bAbato zIkhavADAya che. zikSaNanA 15 vattA 5 varSa pUrA thAya che. potAnA cheDAM karatAM paNa vadhu kiMmata ApI, moTA makAnamAM lIdhelo bahAra nIkaLatuM grejyueTa bALaka je have dezanuM yuvA baLa che, tenI praveza zikSaNanI ke vyaktinI guNavattAmAM koI vadhAro nathI karato. pAse zuM jJAna che, zuM samaja che evI koI parIkSA levAtI nathI? A potAnI bhASAne bAju para mUkIne anya bhASAmAM bolato vyakti prakRtinA pratyeka tattvoe tenA jIvana vikAsamAM zuM phALo bhajavyo enI saphaLatA ke vyaktitvanI chaDI nathI pokArI rahyo. saphaLatAke kaI rIte Teko pUro pADyo te aMge tene khabara nathI. paraMtu have samaja ane kauzalano sumeLa che. bhautika rIte samRddha samAjane vRddhAzrama tenI pAse A jagatanA kArobAra aMgenI vahIvaTI samajanI apekSA ane ghoDiyAgharanI vadhu jarUra eTale paDI kAraNa manuSya karatAM vadhu rakhAya che ane te joDAI jAya che koI eka zAkhA-prazAkhAnI saMpattinI apekSA vadhI. paraMparAne AgaLa vadhAravAmAM. jAMbunuM vRkSa hajI vadhaze, phelAze paraMtu pharI pAchA e ja prazna para AvIne aTakI javAya che ke saMpatti je thaDa jarjarita thaI rahyuM che temAM koIne rasa nathI. koIne rasa nathI moTI ke jJAna? zuM jJAnathI saMpattinI tulanA karAya? jenI pAse ke aMdaranA mULiyAmAM kyAM kharAbI AvI che, ke vRkSanA dareka chevADA jJAna che te moTI ke saMpatti? javAba saraLa che "jJAna"; paraMtu vyavahAru sudhI kema poSaNa nathI pahoMcI rahyuM? darekane rasa che ke A jhADanuM dRSTie zuM sAbita thAya che? sAbita e thAya che ke jenI pAse utpAdana saMkhyAnI dRSTie keTaluM che? A jhADa je phaLo ApI rahyuM saMpatti vadhu che e jJAnane potAnI sattA heThaLa dabAve che. jyAM saMpatti che tenA phaLanI tulanA anya phaLa sAthe thAya che ane e rIte tenuM che tyAM sattA Ave che ane jyAM jJAna che tyAM sattA aMgenI bhUkha ja mUlyAMkana thAya che. samAjamAM keTalAMka loko A jhADa nIce chAMyaDo nathI eTale potAnA nijAnaMdamAM masta. levAnI apekSA rAkhe che to keTalAMka loko A jhADane potAnA jhADanA parNa potAnA nijAnaMdamAM masta hoya che tema, uparanuM sAmrAjyanuM gaNavA utsuka che to keTalAMka loko karuNA nAme tene AkAza ane nIcenI jamInanI vacce potAnuM sthAna TekavIne beselA jarUra vagarano khorAka pUro pADI potAnI vAha-vAha meLavavA utsuka pratyaka parNa potAnA nijI astitvanI samajamAM masta che. tAjA, kuNA, AchAM rAkhoDI raMgathI zaru thayelI temanI yAtrAmAM aneka raMgo eka kheDUta mAthe potAnA hAthanI chAjalI karI, potAnA dIkarAne AvyA, popaTI raMga, pachI ghero lIlo raMga pachI, sUkAI jatA pharI kahe che beTA, A jhADanuM Ayu have bahu nathI; ane have A jhADa rAkhoDI raMga ane aMte sUkAI jatAM kharI paDe ane temanI sukAyelI tane bahu sArA phaLa pUrA pADaze nahIM, mATe tuM ja bIjA pradezamAM avasthAno khakhaDATa ziziramAM gAjI uThe, jatAM pahelAno zora. jaI tAruM nasIba ajamAva. paNa ahIM tane je anubhava maLyo che pharI pAchAM e ja Rtucakrano bhAga ane satata cAlatuM e cakra. te ja tArI mUDI che, ane tAre tAruM jIvana A mUDIne AdhAre ja - - - - - saphaLa karavAnuM che. A zabdo koI ja ADaMbara vagara vaDIla dvArA ziyALA ane grISmanI Rtu sAdhu bhagavaMta mATe vihArano samaya kahevAyA che ane enI kiMmata eTalA mATe ochI thaI jAya che ke e hoya che. grISma RtumAM sUryodaya vahelo thAya eTale vihAra mATe zabdo sAva sahaja potAnI bhASAmAM kahevAya che. paraMtu jo A ja sAdhu bhagavaMta vahelI savArano samaya pasaMda kare che. kAraNa sUryodaya vAta, koI parisaMvAdamAM mAIka upara koTa paherIne kahevAI hota pachI dharAnI garamI emane vihAra mATe sAnukuLa paristhiti na Ape. to badhA ja UbhA thaIne tALIo pAData ane kaheta ke zuM vAta che, bIjI tarapha vahelI savAre khAlI rastAne kAraNe vAhano potAnI eka kheDUta na hoya evI vyaktie saMzodhana karIne kevI moTI vAta samatulatA gumAvatA rastA para cAlatAM sAdhunA jIvanane hAni karI, kevI karuNatA che ApaNI? je ApaNuM nathI tene apanAvI pahoMcADe che. "vihAra' e dharmanI khyAtine samAja sudhI pahoMcADe levA mATe ApaNe adhIrA banyA chIe. meLavavuM eTale bhautikatA, che. anaMta kALathI "sAdhu to calatA bhalA'nI vAtathI ApaNe sahu lokapriyatA ke sattA nahIM. aphATa tophAnanA samaye, manane sthira saMmata thatAM AvyA chIe. Aje bhautika sagavaDomAM thayelA vadhArA rAkhI, rasto zodhavAnI zraddhA sAthe TakI rahevuM ane AgaLa vadhavuM, sAme dharmaguru potAnA Adarzo ane dharma siddhAMto dvArA TakI rahyA e jIvanabaLa - eTale meLavavuM-pAmavuM. che. jyAre koI AvI ghaTanA bane che eTale tarata ja aneka jagyAo para A aMgenI carcA-vicAraNAno prAraMbha thaI jAya che. bauddhiko che.
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________________ prabuddha jIvana me, 2017 potAnA mata pradarzita kare che. prajAno eka varga mata pradarzita kare che. jo tamane paNa vahetA jaLa ke kokila kaMTha praphullita karatAM hoya, ke vihAra baMdha thavo joIe, A rIte havenA jamAnAmAM na cAle, to tame hajI jIvaMta cho. vAhananA prayoga para pratibaMdha na hovo joIe, rastAnI DAbI bAju hajIe tamArI AMkha AkAza bhaNI joI Thare che, cAlavAne badale jamaNI bAjue cAlavuM joIe vagere vagere. aneka to tame hajI jIvaMta cho. salAha-sUcano tatkAlIna samaya pUratA rajU thAya ane pachI aMtamAM hajIye vahetA nIra kaMpArI anubhavAve sarakAra kayAM pagalAM leze ane kayAM levAvA joIe e vicAra para to tame hajI jIvaMta cho. vAta aTake ane pharI e prakAranI ghaTanA bane tyAM sudhI vAta rokAI prakRti tArI sattA mane game che kAraNa emAM mane snehanI jAya. paraMtu aphasosanI bAbata e che ke 2011nA senasekSa mujaba anubhUti thAya che. ogaLavAnI anubhUti thAya che. tArA sAnidhyamAM bhAratanI kula vastI 1.21 biliyanamAMthI 4,451,753 jaina vastI mane, mArA AtmA sAthe saMvAda karyA jevuM lAge che. huM rAga-dveSathI bhAratamAM che, jemAMthI aMdAje jaina sAdhu-sAdhvInI saMkhyA aMdAja 2 mukta thaI, tane ane mArI AjubAjunA sahune cAhI zakuM chuM, thI aDhI lAkha karatAM vadhu to nahIM ja rahevAnI. cumAlIza lAkha loko tArI sAthe houM chuM tyAre mane vera-bhAvathI duSita thavuM nathI gamatuM. potAnA dharmanA sAdhu-sAdhvIo/pravAhaka/pratinidhio/staMbhanI pyurIphIkezana AvuM kudaratI hoya to pharI pharI tyAM jaIne zaraNa levuM rakSA mATe zuM pagalAM laI zake tema che? A prajA pAse zikSita loko kone na game? che, saMpatti che, sattA che, anuyAyIo che, pratibaddhatA che ane chatAM cAlo, evuM zaraNuM zodhIe jenAM caraNamAM zaraNAgatinI paNa AvI ghaTanA vakhate kazuMka khUTe che. ApaNe mAnIe ke na mAnIe, anubhUti na hoya zikharanI Toce pahoMcavAnI ekatA ane saMniSThA, kyAMka khUTe che. Hsejala zAha Adhunika prajAne A kALajI ane saMskRti sudhI ApaNe vALI nathI sejalshah702@gmail.com zakyA. AvA samaye javAbadArInI anubhUti khUTe che...vihAra e Mobile : +91 9821533702 mAtra e samudAyanI javAbadArI nathI, e ApaNI javAbadArI che. emane surakSita sthaLe pahoMcADavAnI javAbadArI jyAM sudhI saMgha nahIM 7 me gurudeva ravIndranAtha TAgorano janma divasa upADe ane aneka sUcano karyA karaze paraMtu eka nirNaya para nahIM ekalo jAne re! AvI zake tyAM sudhI A prazna Ama ja rahevAno-ukela vagara. tArI jo hAka suNI koI nA Ave, to ekalo jAne re! beDaminTana ramatI vakhate ekathI bIje cheDe jema zaTalakoka ahIMthI ekalo jAne, ekalo jAne, ekalo jAne re! - tArI jo... tyAM phaMgoLAyA kare tema prazna eka peDhIthI bIjI peDhI vacce, eka samAjathI bIjA samAja vacce phaMgoLAyA karavAno. bIjuM eka parimANa jo saunAM moM sivAya e paNa che ke eka ukela ApanAra maLaze to e anyanA ahamano ore ore o abhAgI ! saunAM moM sivAya; bhoga bane ane anyanA ahamanI sAme bIjAnuM svamAna AvIne jyAre soe bese moM pheravI, soe DarI jAya; UbhuM rahe..AvA vAtAvaraNamAM samaya anuttara AgaLa cAlyA karato tyAre haiyuM kholI, are tuM mana mUkI, hoya che. ApaNe ja ApaNA mATe javAba zodhavAno che. tArAM mananuM gANuM ekalo gAne re! - tArI jo .. jo saue pAchAM jAya, cAlo, sahu prakRti bhaNI, ore ore o abhAgI ! soe pAchAM jAya; parvatano rAkhoDI raMga tyAre kAMTA rAne tAre lohI nIgaLate caraNe sUkAyelA parNano rAkhoDI raMga bhAI ekalo dhA ne re! - tArI jo... jarjarita thaDano rAkhoDI dhULiyo raMga, jyAre dIvo na dhare koI, ane je mATImAM huM bhaLI javAnI chuM eno paNa rAkhoDI dhULiyo raMga. ore ore o abhAgI! dIvo na dhare koI, have raMganA artha zuM zodhavAM? jyAre ghanagherI tuphAnI rAte, bAra vAse tane joI; vRkSamAMthI TukaDe TukaDA dekhAtuM AkAza mane dore che; tyAre AbhanI vIje, tuM saLagI jaIne lIlA parvatanI Toca para besIne ke taLiye besIne sauno dIvo ekalo thAne re! - tArI jo... A grISmanI garamImAM mane koyalano sAda saMbhaLAya che. [ ravIndranAtha TAgora...bhAvAnuvAda - sva. mahAdevabhAI desAI sAruM che ane prakRtino avAja saMbhaLAya che
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________________ me, 2017 prabuddha jIvana jagRti | HbhANadeva 1. jAgRtinuM mUlya jo jAgRtino vikAsa thAya to ApaNA jIvanavikAsanI cAvI A sRSTi para agaNita prakAranA jIvo che. A samagra hAtha lAge che. eTaluM ja nahi, paraMtu ApaNA jIvananI aneka jIvasRSTimAM eka mAnavI ja evuM prANI che ke je potAnI jAta vize samasyAonuM nirAkaraNa paNa hAtha lAge che. aMdhakArane kAraNe pedA sabhAna-jAgrata thaI zake che. potAnA hovAnuM bhAna, potAnA thayelI gUMca prakAzanA prAgaTyathI ApoApa ukelAvA lAge che. astitva vize sabhAnatA, potAnA vANI ane vartana vize jAgRti 2. jAgRti eTale zuM? mAnavI sivAya anya koI jIvasRSTimAM jovA maLatI nathI. A jAgRti jAgRti eTale sabhAnatA, avadhAna ke bodha. paNa A to badhA e mAnavInI lAkSaNikatA che. A jAgRti ja mAnavInI moTI AzA paryAyavAcaka zabdo thayA. jAgRtinuM yathArtha svarUpa zuM che? vastuta: che ane tene AdhAre ja mAnavI devatva sudhI pahoMcI zake che. A jAgRtine jAgRtino artha samajAvavAnuM kArya bahu kaThina che. sadbhAgye avadhAna (Awareness) paNa kahevAmAM Ave che. jAgRtino koIka svarUpano thoDoghaNo anubhava to saune thayo ja have ApaNI samakSa prazna e che ke ApaNI A jAgRti, A hoya che tene AdhAre te taMtu pakaDIne ApaNe jAgRti ke avadhAnanA avadhAna saMpUrNa che ke AMzika che? zuM ApaNe ApaNAM vANI ane svarUpane samajI zakIe chIe. ApaNe jene jAgRtAvasthAmAM kahIe vartana vize, mananI badhI gatividhio aMge hamezAM jAgrata hoIe chIe te ane A yathArtha jAgRti, baMne eka nathI. chIe? zuM ApaNe pUrNataH jAgrata hoIe chIe ? vastutaH ApaNAmAM ApaNAM nitya jIvananI traNa avasthAo chejAgRtino mAtra aMza hoya che. mAtra prAraMbha ja hoya che. pUrNa jAgrata (1) nidrAvasthA to mAtra paramAtmA che ke bhagavAna buddha hoI zake che, kAraNa ke (2) svapnAvasthA temanAmAM bebhAnAvasthAno aMza paNa nathI. paramAtmA pUrNa jAgrata (3) jAgRtAvasthA che, tethI ja to te jJAnasvarUpa gaNAya che. mAnavImAM A jJAnano samajaNanI saraLatA khAtara ApaNe jAgRtAvasthAne be bhAgamAM ati alpa aMza UtarI Avyo che. ane tethI ja tenAmAM jAgRtino vaheMcI zakIe. aMza che. A jAgRti to mAtra taNakho che. A taNakho mahAprakAzanuM (1) pratyakSIkaraNanI avasthA svarUpa dhAraNa karI zake che. A taNakhAnI mahAprakAza sudhInI yAtrA (2) vicArAvasthA e ja jIvanavikAsanI yAtrA che. Ama ApaNAM nityajIvananI A cAra avasthAo che. A cArenA paththaramAM jAgRtinuM tattva nathI. vanaspati sRSTimAM cetanA che, svarUpane samajIne tenA dvArA ApaNe jAgRtinA svarUpane samajavAno paraMtu tenAmAM jAgRti nathI. prANIsRSTimAM jAgRtino vikAsa thayo prayatna karIe. che, paraMtu potAnI jAta viSayaka jAgRti [Self Awareness] hotI (1) nidrAvasthA: nathI. AvI jAgRtino prAraMbha mAnavIthI thayo che. mAnavImAM nidrAvasthAmAM ApaNuM mana svarUpamAM sthira thaI jAya che, paraMtu jAgRtino prAraMbha thayo che, paraMtu A jAgRti ghaNI adhUrI ane tamoguNanA AvaraNane kAraNe manane svanuM ke bAhyajagatanuM kazuM bhAna AMzika che. hotuM nathI. tethI nidrA to spaSTa rIte bebhAnAvasthA ja che. Adhunika manovijJAnanA tAraNa pramANe ApaNAM jAgrata mana klorophormanI asara heThaLanI avasthA ke zArIrika-mAnasika AghAta karatAM ajAgRta mananuM kSetra ghaNuM moTuM hoya che, jenA vize ApaNI lAgavAthI AvelI bebhAnAvasthA paNa svarUpataH A prakAranI jAgRti nahivat hoya che. jAgRtamana viSe paNa ApaNI jAgRti bebhAnAvasthA ja che. AMzika hoya che ane satata rahetI nathI. ApaNA jIvananI Ama chatAM ApaNe noMdhavuM joIe ke A bebhAnAvasthA paththaranI viTaMbaNAonuM kAraNa A ApaNI ajAgRti che. jIvananI mukhya bebhAnAvasthA nathI ja. nidrAvasthAmAM koIka svarUpanI jAgRti hoya samasyA ajJAna che. ajJAnamAMthI samasyAo janme che ane jJAnathI ja che. zarIranA yaMtro cAle ja che, zarIra paDakhAM phare ja che; macchara samasyAonuM nirAkaraNa maLe che. ajAgRti ajJAnanuM ja eka svarUpa che. karaDe to hAtha tyAM pahoMce ja che! mana sivAya ApaNI cetanAnA aneka staro ane vibhAgo che. (2) svapnAvasthA: A sarvane gaNatarImAM laIe to ApaNI jAgRti, ApaNA astitva svapnAvasthAmAM bAhya jagata sAtheno saMparka hoto nathI, paraMtu viSayaka ApaNI jAgRti ati alpa pramANamAM che, tema samajavuM vyakti svaracita jagatamAM vihare che. nidrAvasthAnI tulanAe muzkela nathI. svapnAvasthAmAM jAgRti kAMIka pramANamAM vikaselI hoya che. Ama
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________________ prabuddha jIvana me, 2017 chatAM vastutaH svapnAvasthA paNa eka svarUpanI bebhAnAvasthA ja hoya vizleSaNanI prakriyA nathI, e to mAtra jAgRtinI avasthA che. che, kAraNa ke svapnAvasthAmAM paNa bAhya jagatanuM ke potAnI jAtanuM AmavizleSaNa bauddhika ghaTanA che ane jAgRti parAbauddhika ghaTanA bhAna hotuM nathI. che. AmavizleSaNanI ghaTanAthI vyakti manasAtIta bhUmikAe pahoMcI (3) pratyakSIkaraNanI avasthA na zake. jAgRtino svarUpagata hetu ja manasAtIta bhUmikAe pratyakSIkaraNa (Perception)nI ghaTanAmAM mana jJAnendriyo dvArA pahoMcavAno che. hA, e vAta sAcI che ke jAgRti ane bAhya viSayo sAthe joDAya che. A avasthAmAM mana bAhya jagatanA AtmavizleSaNa ekabIjAnA pUraka banI zake tema che, paraMtu baMne viSayomAM ramamANa hovAthI potAnA vize jAgrata nathI. bAhya eka ja ghaTanA nathI. jAgRtinI avasthAmAM mananA ATApATA, jagatanI sAthenA tAdAbhyane lIdhe A avasthAmAM ApaNe ApaNA mananI gatividhi ApoApa pragaTa thAya che. tene pariNAme mananA jAgRta svarUpanuM anusaMdhAna gumAvI besIe chIe. eTale prathama be svarUpane samajavAnI ghaTanA ApoApa banI jAya che. paraMtu A avasthAo karatAM jAgRtinuM pramANa A avasthAmAM vadhu hovA chatAM manovizleSaNa nathI. A to jAgRtinA prakAzamAM thayeluM mananuM darzana A avasthA paNa yathArtha jAgRtinI avasthA nathI. che. eTale AtmavizleSaNa dvArA vyaktinA manamAM potAnA vize je (4) vicArAvasthA samaja pragaTe che, tenA karatAM jAgRtinA prakAza dvArA je samaja pragaTe vicArAvasthAmAM paNa mana potAnI kriyAomAM ramamANa rahe che. che, te samaja vadhu UMDI, vadhu vyApaka ane vadhu yathArtha hoya che. vicAro jJAnendriyonA bhUtakAlIna pratyakSIkaraNanI smRti para AmavizleSaNamAM mana dvArA mananuM vizleSaNa thAya che. tethI te racAyelA hoya che. eTale vicArAvasthAmAM mana Indriyo dvArA bAhya vizleSaNamAM mananI maryAdAo AvavAnI ja. jAgRti ke avadhAnanI jagata sAthe joDAtuM nathI, paraMtu Indriyo dvArA meLavelA avasthAmAM manasAtIta avasthAno prakAza pragaTe che. tethI A pratyakSIkaraNanI smRtine AdhAre bAhya jagatanA sUkSma svarUpa sAthe jAgRtinI avasthAmAM thayeluM mananuM darzana manasAtIta bhUmikA parathI joDAyeluM rahe che. vicAro paNa bAhya jagatanuM sUkSma svarUpa che. thayeluM mananuM darzana che. AmavizleSaNa eka manovaijJAnika prakriyA che vicArAvasthA te jAgRtAvasthAmAM thatI svapnanI kriyA che. jema ane tethI temAM manovijJAnanuM kAMIka jJAna hovuM Avazyaka che. jAgRti nidrAvasthA ane svapnAvasthAnuM yugma che, tema pratyakSIkaraNanI avasthA manovaijJAnika ghaTanA nathI. manasAtIta avasthA che. jAgRtinI ane vicArAvasthAnuM yugma che. tethI vicArAvasthAmAM paNa yathArtha avasthAmAM mananuM darzana karavA mATe manovijJAnano abhyAsa jAgRti hotI nathI. anivArya nathI. joke jAgRtinI sAthe manovijJAnanA mULa tattvonuM - jyAre citta nidrAvasthAmAM na hoya, svapnAvasthAmAM na hoya, jJAna hoya to vizeSa sahAya maLI zake che. te ja rIte AtmavizleSaNa IndriyonA viSayomAM joDAyeluM na hoya ane vicAronI prakriyAmAM karanAra vyakti paNa jAgRtinA viniyoga dvArA potAnuM kArya vadhu lIna na hoya eTale ke cittanI vRttio baMdha paDI jAya ane sArI rIte karI zake che. bebhAnAvasthAnuM AvaraNa paNa na hoya tevI avasthA te yathArtha jAgRtithI thatuM darzana ane AtmavizleSaNa judI judI ghaTanA hovA jAgRtinI avasthA che. chatAM baMnenA kSetra vacce sahayoga ke paraspara pUraka upayoga zakya che. sAmAnya rIte ApaNAM dhyAnanI dhArA bAhya jagatanA dhULa ke 3. jAgRtimAM praveza ane jAgRtino vikAsa sUkSma svarUpa pratye vahetI hoya che. jyAre mana A baMne bAjuthI pAchuM have ApaNI samakSa e prazna che ke vyaktino jAgRtinI yathArtha phare ane potAnA svarUpamAM sthira thAya tyAre te jAgRtinI avasthA avasthAmAM praveza kevI rIte thaI zake ane tenA jIvanamAM jAgRti che, tema kahI zakAya. kevI rIte vikasI zake ? jAgRtinI avasthA te cittanI potAnA svarUpamAM sthira thavAnI jAgRti athavA avadhAnanI avasthAmAM praveza pAmyA vinA tenA avasthA che. svarUpanI yathArtha samaja pAmavAnuM zakya nathI. zabdAtIta avasthA AMtarika jAgRti choDyA vinA anyamAM dhyAna ApI zakavAnI vize zabdo dvArA keTaluM samajAvI zakAya? hA, jAgRtinI avasthAmAM kSamatA te jAgatinuM vikasIta svarUpa che, vikasIta avasthA che. A praveza thAya ane jIvanamAM jAgRtino vikAsa thAya to badhuM dIvA vikasIta jAgRtAvasthAmAM cetanA potAnA svarUpanI jAgRti choDyA jevuM spaSTa joI zakIe. vinA pratyakSIkaraNa ke vicAra karI zake che. jAgRtimAM praveza thAya arthAt jIvanamAM jAgRti pragaTa thAya ApaNe samajI levuM joIe ke A jAgRtinI avasthA ane ane teno vikAsa thAya te mATenI keTalIka paddhati saraLathI kaThina AtmavizleSaNa baMne eka nathI. krame ahIM prastuta che. AtmavizleSaNamAM vyakti potAnA mananI kriyAonuM (1) bhoMyataLiyA para rajAI ke gAlIco pAtharIne tenA para manovaijJAnika vizleSaNa kare che, jyAre jAgRti ke avadhAna, te zavAsananI avasthAmAM sUI jAo. zvAsanI sAthe peTa aMdara bahAra
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________________ me, 2017 prabuddha jIvana Ave che ane jAya che. peTanI A gatine zAMtabhAve joyA karo. (12) koI zAMta ekAMta sthAnamAM beso. kuMbhaka vinAnA ujjAyI peTanI A gati pratye mAtra jAgRti rAkho. ke kuMbhaka vinAnA anuloma viloma prANAyAmano abhyAsa karo. (2) koI paNa saraLa Asana dhAraNa karIne beso. zvAsanI sAthe prANAyAma daramiyAna zvAsanI gati pratye jAgrata raho. prANAyAmanA peTa aMdara bahAra Ave che ane jAya che. peTanI A gatine zAMtabhAve abhyAsa dvArA prANanA pravAho zAMta thavA mAMDe che, tenA tarapha joyA karo, peTanI A gati pratye mAtra jAgRti rAkho. jAgRti rAkho. prANanA pravAho zAMta thatAM mananI gati paNa zAMta (3) koI paNa saraLa Asana dhAraNa karIne beso. zvAsa aMdara thavA mAMDaze, Ama chatAM pragADha jAgRtino udaya thavAnI zakyatA che. Ave che ane zvAsa bahAra jAya che. zvAsanI A gati pratye zAMta (13) koI eka anukULa AsanamAM beso. AMkho khullI rAkho. bhAve jAgRti rAkho. dRSTi bahAra rAkho, paraMtu bahAranA koI dRzyanuM darzana karazo nahi. | (4) koI paNa saraLa AsanamAM beso. zvAsa pratye jAgRti rAkho. dhyAna aMdara vALo. khullI AMkhe dRSTi zUnyasvarUpiNI banaze.khullI zvAsa aMdara letI vakhate nasakorAmAM ThaMDakanI saMvedanA anubhavAze. AMkhe, dRSTi bahAra che, chatAM dhyAna aMdara rAkhavAnuM che. daSTi bahAra ane zvAsa bahAra kADhatI vakhate upalA hoTha para uSmAnI saMvedanA che chatAM lakSya aMdara che. A zAMbhavI mudrA che. zAMbhavI mudrAnA anubhavAze. A saMvedanA pratye mAtra jAgRtibhAva dhAraNa karo. abhyAsathI jAgRti keLavAya che. jAgRtipUrvaka temano anubhava thavA do. (14) koI zAMta ekAMta sthAnamAM beso. zvAsanI gati sAthe (5) koIpaNa zAMta ekAMta sthAnamAM dhImI gatie cAlo. cAlatI joDIne ISTa maMtrano japa karo. zvAsanI gati ane ISTamaMtranA japa vakhate zvAsa pratye jAgRti rAkho. jAgRtipUrvaka zvAsocchavAsane joyA pratye jAgRti rAkho. maMtrajapa yaMtravat nahi, jAgRtipUrvaka thavo karo. joIe. (6) koI zAMta ekAMta sthAnamAM dhImI gatie cAlo. cAlatI (15) koI zAMta ekAMta sthAnamAM beso. traNa prANAyAma ane vakhate hAtha ane paganI gatine jAgRtipUrvaka joyA karo. daza praNavanAda karo. mana zAMta thAya pachI mananA vicAronI dhArAne (7) koI zAMta ekAMta sthAnamAM dhImI gatie cAlo. cAlatI sAkSI bhAve joyA karo. vicAro sAthe joDAvuM nahi, paraMtu vicAronuM vakhate bhramaNa prANAyAma karo. bhramaNa prANAyAmamAM cAra pagalAM sAkSIbhAve nirIkSaNa karavAnuM che. daramiyAna pUraka ane ATha pagalAM daramiyAna recaka karo. hAthapaganI A rIte dhIrajapUrvaka zAMtabhAve vicAronuM nirIkSaNa karo, vicAro gati ane zvAsocchavAsanI gati-A baMne pratye eka sAthe jAgRti pratye jAgrata raho. vicAro dhIme dhIme pAMkhA thavA mAMDaze ane jAgRti rAkho. zvAsanI gati ane hAthapaganI gati pratye zAMta bhAve jAgRti pragADha thavA mAMDaze. dhAraNa karI rAkho. (16) koIpaNa paristhitimAM, koIpaNa sthaLe, koI paNa samaye (8) koI zAMta sthAnamAM saraLa Asana dhAraNa karIne beso. anukULa dRSTi acAnaka aMdara vALo. dhyAnane AMtara cetanA para sthira rAkho. maMtrano upAMzu japa karo. maMtranA uccAraNa pratye jAgRti bhAva rAkho. cittanI avasthA badalAI jaze. yathArtha avadhAnamAM praveza thaze. (9) samudra kinAre ke vRkSonI ghaTA vacce beso. je koI prAkRtika (17) cittamAM kAma krodha ke bhayano Avega Ave tyAre je nAda Ave che. tenA pratye zAMtabhAve jAgrata raho, samudranA garjanano parasthitine lIdhe Avega Avyo hoya tenA taraphathI dhyAna haTAvI nAda, pavana dvArA vRkSomAMthI utpanna thato nAda, pakSIonA kalaravano lo ane aMdara cittamAM je khaLabhaLATa vyApI gayo che, tenA tarapha nAda Adi je koI nAda saMbhaLAya temanuM zAMtabhAve jAgRtipUrvaka dhyAna Apo. dRSTine AveganA viSaya parathI Avega para vALo A zravaNa karo. nAda pratye jAgRti pradhAna che, te smaraNamAM rAkho. kaLA hastagata thAya to pragADha avadhAnamAM praveza thaze. AveganI (10) nadI kinAre, samudra kinAre, araNya ke upavana jevA koI zakti jAgRtinA vikAsamAM sahAyaka banaze ane AvegonuM jora suMdara sthAnamAM beso. suMdara dRzyanuM darzana karo. A darzananI ghaTanA ochuM thaze. pratye jAgrata raho. dRzya juo ane A darzana thAya che, te vize (18) koIpaNa dRzya juo. turata ja dRSTi dRzya parathI haTAvIne jAgRtibhAva paNa rAkho. dRSTA tarapha rAkho. drazyanA draSTAnuM darzana karo. dhyAna drazya pratyethI jema nAdazravaNa pratye jAgrata thaI zakAya tema darzana pratye paNa uThAvIne draSTAmAM sthira karo. draSTA drazya banatAM pragADha avadhyAnamAM jAgrata thaI zakAya. praveza thaze. (11) koI zAMta ekAMta sthAnamAM beso. dhIme dhIme praNavano A pramANe vairyapUrvaka dIrdhakALa paryata jAgRtinI paddhationo nAda karo. praNavanA nAda pratye ane be nAdanA aMtarAla pratye abhyAsa karavAmAM Ave to kALAMtare jAgRtino vikAsa thaze. jAgratibhAva rAkho. nAdanuM zravaNa karo ane zravaNanI ghaTanA pratye jAgRtimAM praveza to nAno taNakho che, paraMtu kALAMtare A taNakho jAgrata raho. mahAprakAzanuM svarUpa dhAraNa karaze. (kramaza:)
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________________ 1 ) prabuddha jIvana me, 2017 sAdhakanuM saMkalpasUtraH jayavIyarAya sUtra | DaoN. ramajAna hasaNiyA jaina dharma karmasattAne prAdhAnya Apato dharma che. ahIM Izvara kartA dunyavI sukha ke aizvaryane na mAgatAM narasiMha mAgI le che khuda IzvaranI nathI. eka jaina sAdhaka jene bhaje che te to vItarAga paramAtmA che, jAtane. 'tamane je vallabha, hoya je durlabha, Apo te mujane" ema jeo rAga-dveSathI para hoI koInA para prasanna thaI kazuM ApI detA kahI zrIkRSNane hastagata karI le che ne ApaNe ovArI jaIe chIe nathI ke aprasanna thaI kazuM chInavI letA nathI. tema chatAM jaina dharmamAM tenI pasaMdagInI kalA para. AvI ja keTalIka uttamottama bAbato puSkaLa prArthanA sAhitya sarjAyuM che. sUtra, stotra, stavana, sakjhAya para pasaMdagI utArI che ApaNA gaNadhara bhagavaMtoe ane mahAna AdinA rUpamAM prArthanAkAvyo racI aneka bhaktakavioe potAnA pUrvasUrioe. ISTadeva pratyeno ahobhAva vyakta karyo che. A prArthanAkAvyo anya vartamAna samayamAM jyAre kahevAtA jaina paNa evA gIto gAvA dharmanA prArthanAkAvyo karatAM viziSTa banI rahe che, kemake ahIM kRpA lAgyA che ke, "jaba koI nahIM AtA, mere dAdA Ate hai, mere du:kha dvArA kalyANanI yAcanA nathI, paNa kalyANamArga meLavyAno rAjIpo, ke dinoM meM vo baDe kAma Ate hai' - tyAre namrabhAve e kahevuM joIe te mArga dekhADanAra pratyeno ahobhAva ane te mArga para cAlI ke A jaina prArthanA, stavana ke stuti na hoI zake. ApaNe jyAre AtmakalyANa karI zakavAnI zakti mAgavAmAM AvI che. A prakAranA mULabhUta jaina siddhAMtone visaratA jaIe chIe tyAre jayavIyarAya prArthanAsAhityamAM sUtra-stotra Adi prAcIna svarUpo che. jaya- sUtra ApaNane jaina prArthanAnuM sAcuM svarUpa samajAvI jAya che. sAcuM viyarAya sUtra AvuM ja eka prAcIna ane uttama prArthanAsUtra che. pAMca jaina zrAvaka ke sAdhu bhautika sukha-aizvaryanI yAcanA kare ja nahi. zuM gAthAomAM racAyelA A sUtranI pahelI be gAthA gaNadhara bhagavaMtoe hoya eka sAcA jinamArge cAlatA sAdhakanI yAcanA te samajavA racI hovAnuM manAya che. bAkInI traNa gAthAo pUrvAcAryokata che, ApaNe jayavIyarAya sUtra pAse javuM paDe. jayavIyarAya sUtranI saiddhAMtika je pAchaLathI sUtranI sAthe joDI devAI che. AcArya haribhadrasUrie carcA karavAnI mArI kSamatA nathI. basa, eka bhAvaka tarIke temAMthI 'lalita vistarA' nAmaka graMthamAM A sUtranI prathama be gAthAonuM pasAra thatAM je hRdayane sparzI gayuM che, je rasasthAno sAMpaDyA che, vivaraNa kareluM che. tenI vAta karavA yatna karIza. jayavIyarAya sUtrane "paNihANasutta'-praNidhAnasUtra kahevAmAM sUtrano AraMbha ja keTalo majAno che-"jayavIyarAya jagaguru." jaya Ave che. praNidhAna eTale saMkalpa. eka sAco jaina sAdhaka je Atma- zabda vijayano sUcaka che ne vaLI utsAha ane AnaMdathI bharI denAruM kalyANa arthe prayatnazIla che tenA saMkalpo kevA hoya teno paricaya che. 'jaya" bolatAM ja eka prakAranI UrjA-ullAsa-utsAha manamAM A sUtra karAve che. A sUtra "prArthanAsUtra' tarIke paNa oLakhAya che. UbharAya che. sAmAnya rIte jaya zabda chelle Ave ahIM to AraMbha ja paraMtu tenA prathama zabdo parathI tenuM "jayavIyarAya sUtra' evuM nAma "jayathI thAya che. kono jaya? to kahe vIyarAyano- vItarAgano. vizeSa pracalita che. pahelI be gAthAomAM ATha ane bAkInI gAthAomAM jeo rAga-dveSathI para thaI gayA che evA vItarAga paramAtmAno pAMca ema kula tera utkRSTa prArthanAo A sUtramAM karAI che. jayaghoSa ahIM prathama karAyo che. sAmAnya rIte jemAM ApaNane zraddhAprArthanAnI vyAkhyA karatAM zAstrakAroe kahyuM che ke - "pravRSTa yavano vizvAsa hoya teno jayakAra ApaNe bolAvIe chIe. sAdhaka ahIM ti prArthanA' uttama prakAranI yAcanA te kharI prArthanA che. vyavahAramAM prathama ja potAnI vItarAga ane vItarAgatA pratyenI zraddhAne chatI samAnArthI tarIke vaparAtA zabdo "prArthanA" ane "mAgaNI'nI kare che. e samaje che ke vItarAgatA che tyAM ja jaya che ne sarAgatA che arthachAyAo bhinna che. mAgaNI bAMdhe che. jyAre prArthanA mukta karAve tyAM parAjaya. parama sukha-mokSa mATe vItarAgatA sivAya bIjo koI che. bALapaNamAM hoMze hoMze gAyelI prArthanA upAya nathI. eTale jayavIyarAya ema bolIne sAdhaka vItarAga ane 'o Izvara bhajIe tane, moTuM che tuja nAma, vItarAgatAne vaMdana kare che. vaLI vItarAgano jaya pAma arthAt guNa tArA nita gAie, thAya amArA kAma." arihaMta prabhunuM zAsana A jagatamAM vistAra thAo. vadhumAM vadhu samajaNa AvyA pachI khaTakatI. ApaNAM kAma thAya e mATe jIvo bhagavAnanA A zAsanane-jinamArgane svIkArI anaMtasukhanA izvarane bhajavAnuM gaLe utaratuM nahi. koIne cAho ne tenI pAchaLa svAmI bane tevI bhAvanA paNa vyakta karAI che. svArtha ke gaNatarI hoya tenA jevuM vicitra lAgatuM. A ajaMpAmAMthI vaLI, jeo kevaLajJAnI banyA che evA arihaMta paramAtmA-jemaNe ja sAcI ane uttama prArthanAonI zodhakhoLa AraMbhAI ane mane jagatanuM yathAtatha darzana karyuM che-teo ja jagatanA jIvone sAcuM lAdhyuM eka uttamottama prArthanAsUtra-te jayavIyarAya sUtra. mArgadarzana ApI zake, sAcA guru hoI zake-mATe ja saMbodhana karyuM A sUtramAM paNa che to mAgaNIo ja, paNa mAgaNI zabdanI 'jagaguru'. A jagaguru zabda paNa eTalo ja majAno ane samajavA garimA vadhArI de tevI utkRSTa mAgaNIo che. konI pAse zuM mAgavuM jevo zabda che. mAtra koI eka dharma ke saMpradAyanA nahi paraMtu AkhA teno viveka bahu ochA loko karI jANe che. to vaLI, mAgaNI karatI jagatanA-samagra jIvasRSTinA jeo guru che. arihaMta paramAtmAe vyaktinI mAgaNIo parathI tenI kakSAno khyAla AvI jAya che. jagatanA sarva jIvo mATe apAra karuNA darzAvI che. vinobAjIe keTalAka mahAna loko A pasaMdagInI kalAmAM jItI gayA che. narasiMha kahyuM che ke "sAdhu eTale premano saMkoca nahi paNa vistAra. arihaMta mahetA para prasanna thayelA zive jyAre varadAna mAgavAnuM kahyuM che tyAre paramAtmAno premapradeza eTalo vistaryo che ke jagatano sUkSmAtisUkSma
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________________ me, 2017 prabuddha jIvana 11 jIva paNa temAMthI bAkAta rahevA nathI pAmyo. eTaluM ja nahi gurunuM guNanI khAsa gaNanA thaI che. prabhu kRpAthI AvI udAsInatA pragaTe kAma che sAco mArga dekhADavAnuM. arihaMta paramAtmAe muktino evI mAgaNI sauprathama sAdhaka kare che. mArga jIvamAtrane koIpaNa jAtanA bhedabhAva vinA samajAvyo che- bIjI yAcanA che ke prabhu ApanA prabhAvathI huM mArgAnusArI mATe teo jagataguru che. banuM, mArgAnusAritAnA guNo mArAmAM pragaTe. karma ane kaSAya rahita AvA arihaMta paramAtmA pratye sAdhakane je ahobhAva jAgyo che AtmAnI zuddha avasthA te mokSa che ane tene prApta karavAno te ahobhAvathI prerAIne te kahe che ke, hoDa mamaM tuda pAvo thaya' 'he tapa-saMyama AdirUpa upAya te mokSamArga che. A mokSamArgane bhagavAna, ApanA prabhAvathI, Ape sthApelA dharmazAsananA anusaravuM te mArgAnusAritA. sAdhakanA jIvananI dizA badalI eTale prabhAvathI, Ape ApanI vANImAM-pravacanamAM je satyo-siddhAMto e pramANe ja AgaLanI mAgaNI hoya te svAbhAvika che. mane mokSa pratipAdita karyA che tenA baLathI mArI have pachI jaNAvelI prArthanAo maLI jAo evI prArthanA karavAne badale sAdhaka prArthe che mokSamArge saphaLa thajo. ahIM bhaktanI kRtajJatA vyakta thaI che. upAsya pratyenuM cAlavAnI kSamatA-zakti. mokSamArga para cAlavA mATe je-je kaMI bahumAna kAma karI jAya che. guru droNAcArya pratyenA bahumAnathI jema karavAnuM Ave te huM karuM. A mArge cAlI gayelA ke cAlatA sAdhako ekalavyane vidyAprApti thaI tema prabhu pratyenA bahumAnathI sAdhakanI jema kare che ke kahe che tema huM karuM. upA. bhuvanacaMdrajI ma.sA. 'cinmaya'nI Icchita prArthanA phaLe che. vaLI, ApanA prabhAvathI ema kahevAthI kAvyapaMktio paNa kaMIka AvuM ja sUcavI jAya che : mAna Adi kaSAya dUra thAya che ne namratA jevA guNono vikAsa thAya pagalA dhULamAM pUrvapathikanA zodhI zodhI jAvuM che. kaI bhAvanAo-IcchAo zrI vItarAga deva pAse rajU karavAmAM pagale pagale paMtha khUle che nahi adhIrA thAvuM.' AvI che. Avo joie: sAdhakanI yAtrA AraMbhAI enI A pratIti che. sAdhaka mULamArga pahelI ja mAgaNI che 'pavanavvo' - bhavanirvedanI. yAcanA karanAra tarapha vaLyo. mULamArga haju AgaLa che paNa mArgAnusArI banaze to sAdhakanI ucca kakSAno paricaya ahIM prathama mAgaNI dvArA ja thaI temAM naitikatA Avaze. pApa-puNya, nIti-anIti vagerenI vAta jAya che. sAmAnya rIte Iza pAse saMsArasukhanI prArthanA thAya tyAre te samajaze. ahIM bhakta sAcA rastAne oLakhI tenA para cAlavAnI ahIM sAdhake saMsAra pratyenI udAsInatA-anAsakti mAgI che. zakti prabhu pAse mAgI che. zAstromAM mArgAnusArInA pAMtrIsa virakti mAgI che. jyAM sudhI saMsAra mITho lAge tyAM sudhI bhagavAna guNa darzAvavAmAM AvyA che. mArgAnusArI vyakti pApabhIru, ke temanI vANI kyAMthI mIThI lAge ? AnaMdaghanajI mahArAjano saMsAra paropakArI, dayAvAna, saumya, kRtajJI, dIrghadarzI Adi guNothI saMpanna pratyeno rasa UDI gayo che eTale ja teo gAI zakyA che : hoya che. saMsArathI virakta thaI mukta thavAnI yAtrA AraMbhI tyAre e mArga mITho lAge kaMtaDo, khAro lAge loka para cAlavA mATe jarUrI zaktinI yAcanA sAdhake ahIM karI che. kaMta vihoNI goThaDI, te raNamAMhe poka' sAdhakanI trIjI prArthanA che ISTaphaLa siddhinI. AgaLanI be saMsArano A khIlo chUTavo joIe. A rasa chUTavo agharo che. prArthanAone dhyAnamAM laIne e ja kramamAM ISTaphaLa siddhinI vAta A mATe nirveda jarUrI che. vyaktinuM mana saMsAramAMthI UThIne vicArIe to spaSTa samajAya che ke jeNe bhavanirveda mAgyo, mokSamArga bhagavAnamAM lAge tyAre kAma thAya. bhavanirvedano guNa sAdhakamAM para cAlavAnI zakti mAgI, tenA mATe ISTaphaLa mokSa sivAya anya pragaTatAM te A ja saMsAramAM raheto hovA chatAM saMsAra pratyenuM tenuM kazuM saMbhavI na zake. mokSamArga para cAlavAnI zakti mAgyA bAda AkarSaNa-vaLagaNa ghaTI jaze. kramazaH ghaTatuM jaze ne pachI dUra thaI sAdhaka jAte ja AtmabaLe AgaLa vadhI mokSa sudhI pahoMcavAno che, jaze. saMsAranI anityatA tene samajAtAM temAM ja rahevA chatAM tenAthI tema chatAM te ema kahe che ke mane ApanA prabhAvathI ISTaphaLa (mokSa)nI te alipta raheze-jaLakamalavatuM. nirveda mATe sarasa zabda prayojAyo prApti thAo. ahIM eka vAta dhyAnamAM rAkhavAnI che ke prArthanA to che udAsInatA. ahIM udAsInatA eTale gamagIna rahevuM, moM caDAvIne uttama ja che, paraMtu tene bolanAranA bhAva ane kakSAmAM taratamatA pharavuM, du:khI, du:khI rahevuM evuM nahi, paraMtu saMsAranA sukha ke du:kha rahevAnI. ghaNIvAra dunyavI du:khonA lIdhe sAdhaka dharmamArga para pratye eka prakAranuM tATadhdha AvI javuM. sukha-duHkha kazuM tene sparze cAlavAmAM asamartha thaI jAya tyAre dharmakArya thaI zake tevA AzayathI nahi. evI AdhyAtmika udAsInatA keLavAya ke na to sukha ene evA du :kha dUra karavAnI yAcanA jo te kare che to tenI kakSA mujaba te bhramita kare ke na to du:kha ene vyathita kare. A prakAranI adhyAtmika yogya ja che. Ama to, kudaratanA mArge cAlanArane kudarata pote udAsInatAnI vAta premAnaMdakRta "sudAmAcaritra'mAM bahu ja uttama saMbhALe che. sAdhaka jANe kudaratanA khoLAmAM ja AvI jAya che. tema rIte guMthAI che. du:khomAM sthira rahenAra sudAmAne jyAre daivI vaibhava chatAM, sAdhakane jyAre sAdhanAmAM rata rahI jema bane tema jhaDapathI prApta thAya che tyAre paNa te tenA pratye udAsa ja rahe che. vaibhava tene mokSa prApta karavo che tyAre temAM bAdhArUpa banatI bAbato dUra thAya, calita karI zakato nathI. saMsAranA sukho tene bahekAvI zakatA nathI. sAdhanA mATe anukULatA thAya ne aMte mokSasukharUpa ISTaphaLanI prApti premAnaMda paMkti TAMke che : thAya tevI prArthanA ucita ja che. 'yadyapi vaibhava IndranI, toye RSi rahe udAsa.' AgaLanI prArthanA che 'po viruddhacyAgo'. he vItarAga ! mane tamArA saMsAra pratyenI A udAsInatA mokSamArga para cAlavA mATenI prabhAvathI ziSTajano jene viruddha mAnatA hoya. ayogya mAnatA prathama AvazyakatA che. samyakdarzananA pradhAna lakSaNomAM paNa A hoya tevA kAryono tyAga karAvo. ahIM loka eTale sAmAnyajana
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________________ 12 prabuddha jIvana me, 2017 nahi paNa uttama loko. ziSTajanothI niMdAyelA kAmono tyAga karuM. dharmane prApta karI zakatA nathI. kemake, svArtha ke saMkucita vRttino tyAga khoTA raste na jAuM. sArA zreSTha-sAdhujano je kare che te jeTalA aMze karyA vinA kadI dharmanI zarUAta ja thatI nathI. dharma karanAra vyaktimAM karI zakuM te karuM paNa teo jene tyAjya gaNe che, na karavA jevuM kAma hRdayanI komaLatA ane vizALatA hovI ati Avazyaka che. AcArya mAne che te to na ja karuM. haribhadrasUrie A guNane pauruSacihna kahyuM che. mokSamArga para cAlavAno yatna karato sAdhaka tenA viparita paropakAra be rIte thaI zake-laukika ane lokottara, vyavahArika mArgathI bacAvavAnI yAcanA kare che. sAcA mArge javuM agharuM che, ane paramArthika. anna, vastra, davA, dhana ke anya jarUriyAtanI vastuo paNa khoTA mArge tarata ja vaLI javAya che. jANItA nibaMdhakAra ApavI te laukika upakAra che. AtmajJAna, ane tene prApta karavAnAM bhoLAbhAI paTela temanA 'vidizA' nAmaka nibaMdhasaMgrahamAM eka sAdhano batAvavA ke tene anukULa saMjogo karI ApavA te lokottara jagAe DuMgara caDavAnI vAta karatAM noMdhe che ke, "DuMgara caDatA nAke paropakAra che. tIrthakara deva ke mahAna dharmAcAryo je dezanA ke dharmopadeza dama AvI gayo, paNa utaratA vAra na lAgI. Ame utaratA kyAM Ape che te temano jagata parano mahAna upakAra ja che. sAdhaka ahIM vAra lAge che." bhakta ahIM adhogatinI dizAmAM laI janAra AvA lokika upakArathI AraMbhI lokottara upakAra karavAnI bhAvanA seve kAryothI bacAvavA prArthanA kare che. khoTA mArge na jaI, hiMsA, jUTha, che. 'savI jIva karuM zAsana rasI'nI bhAvanAmAM paNa paropakArI corI, durAcAra Adi pApakarmothI bacavAnI sAdhakanI bhAvanAmAM bhAvanA ja chupAyelI che ne tenAthI tIrthakara nAmakarma baMdhAya che. Ama, saMvara bhAvanA chupAyelI che. paropakAranI bhAvanA uttama phaLadAyI hoI bhAvavA yogya che, A - sAdhanA mArge cAlatA sAdhake AgaLa mAgyuM che gurujanonI pUjAnI vAtane barAbara pramANato sAdhaka ahI prabhu pAse paropakAra vRtti avasara. gurujana eTale ahIM dharmaguru, vidyAguru to kharA ja paNa pragaTAvavAnI prArthanA kare che. vyavahArika dRSTie mAtA-pitA ane vaDIlone paNa guru kahevAmAM AgaLanI badhI ja prArthanAo phaLIbhUta karavA Avazyaka che sadgurunuM Ave che. mokSamArganI sAdhanAmAM jema lokaviruddha pravRttino tyAga hovuM. bhavanirvedanA TakAvavA, mokSamArga para cAlavA, icchita phaLa jarUrI che tema najIkanA upakArI evA mAtA-pitA, zikSaka, vaDIlo meLavavA, lokaviruddha pravRttino tyAga karavA, vaDilono viveka karavA Adino vinaya, bahumAna, bhaktino bhAva paNa Avazyaka che. kAraNa ke paropakAra karavA pratyakSa sagaranI tAlIma Avazyaka che mATe ke, je pratyakSa upakArI pratye kRtajJatA vyakta na kare te parokSa upakArI sAdhaka A badhuM jene prApta che evA sadgurunI mAgaNI karIne jANe arihaMta paramAtmAnA upakArane kaI rIte samajI zake. vaDIlonuM khUTatI sarvakaDIo mAgI le che. sAdhaka mAge che 'sudagurunono aucitya jALavavuM paNa teTaluM ja jarUrI che. huM vaDIlo pratye vinaya- tanvayasevA mApavamaravaMDA' - jyAM sudhI janma-maraNanA pherA karavA viveka jALavuM. temanA Adara-mAna sAcavuM tevI prArthanA sAdhake karI paDe tyAM sudhI bhavobhava sadguruno yoga prApta thAya ane temanA che. ahIM sAdhaka namratA Icche che. potAnAthI moTA (jJAnamAM, vacana pramANe cAlavAnI zakti maLe. yoga eTale milana-joDAvuM. uMmaramAM ke anya koIpaNa rIte)ne te mAna Ape, temano anAdara paramanA mArge cAlavA sadgurunuM ati Avazyaka che. sadguruno yoga kyAreya na kare tevuM sAdhaka icche che. vaLI, sAdhanA mArge AgaLa thavo e kadAca sauthI moTI upalabdhi gaNAvI zakAya. zrImad rAjacaMdra to vadhanAra vyaktithI samajadArImAM, jJAnamAM kadAca tenA mA-bApa, eTale sudhI kahyuM che ke pratyakSa sadguru sama nahi, parokSa jina upakAra." vaDIlo pAchaLa rahI jAya tevuM paNa bane. Avo sAdhaka prArthe che ke huM ahIM gurunuM nahi paNa sadgurunuM milana sAdhake vAMLyuM che. ApaNe game teTalo AgaLa vadhuM paNa vaDIlo pratyeno viveka na cUkuM. sAdhaka mohapattInA bolamAM kahIe chIe ke "kudeva, kuguru, kudharma pariharuM, jANe che ke jo ema thayuM to potAnI adhogati nizcita che. A sudeva, suguru, sudharma AdaruM' - sAdhake AvI sugurunI yAcanA karI sAdhaka ekadama sAvadha che. te koI cUka rAkhavA nathI icchato, jethI che. satyadarzana karAvanAra guruone prApta karIne anekAneka ziSya mokSamArganI yAtrAmAM vighna Ave ne mokSa prAptimAM vilaMba thAya, paramapadane pAmyA che. jene guru prApta thayA hoya tevI vyaktine "saguro' mATe te AvI prArthanA kare che. ne jene guru na maLyA hoya tene 'naguro' kahevAmAM Ave che. AnaMdaghanajI sAdhakanI prArthanAnuM AgaLanuM sopAna che paropakAra. dharma mArge mahArAje eka padamAM kahyuM che ke, AgaLa vadhanAra jIvamAM paropakAranI bhAvanA to sTeje AvI ja 'sagarA hoya so bharabhara pIve, nagarA jAya piyAse mere bhAI re." jAya che. dharmamArga vyaktine zuSka nathI banAvato. te svavikAsa to kamanasIbe loko uttamottama guru maLyA hovA chatAM temano lAbha kare ja che sAthosAtha paropakAra paNa kare che. potAnA jevA ke laI zakatA nathI. temanI pAse kSullaka dunyavI mAgaNI karatAM acakAtA potAnAthI nimna hoya emanA pratye tenA hRdayamAM karuNA pragaTe che. nathI. AnaMdaghanajI jevA alagArI pAse rAjAnI rANI saMtAna sevA, mAnavatA jevA guNono vikAsa thAya che. svakalyANa mATe prAptinA AzIrvAda mAgavA Ave che tyAre guru to uttama ja che paNa bIjA pratye abhAva keLavavAno nathI. keTalAka loko "koI koInuM lenAra vyaktine tenI pAsethI zuM levuM teno viveka nathI mATe teno nathI re" ke "sau potAnA karelA karmo bhogave che" ema kahI hAtha yogya lAbha laI zakatI nathI. vyaktie sadgurunI oLakha prathama vALI le che. Ama karatAM pApakarma baMdhAya evuM kahI sevAnA kAmathI karI levI paNa eka vakhata sagurune meLavyA bAda temanA vacana pramANe dUra thaI jAya che. tyAM dharmanI samajamAM kacAza che. e svArthodhatA che. ja cAlavuM. sAdhake ahIM saguru vacanamAM zurA thaIne cAlavAnI prArthanA jemanAmAM parArthakaraNanI bhAvanA nathI tevA AtmAo kadI lokottara karI che. guru maLe paNa temanI AjJA pramANe cAlI na zakAya to kAma
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________________ me, 2017 prabuddha jIvana 13 na thAya. ne vaLI, guru AjJAnuM pAlana mAtra A bhave ja nahi, karmone khapAvuM e ja sAdhakanI prArthanA che. bhavobhava karI zakuM evI zakti bhakta mAgI che. sAdhaka mAtra sagurunuM AgaLanI prArthanA che samAdhipUrvakanuM maraNa. samAdhi eTale sukhazaraNuM ja nahi paNa temanI AjJAnuM pAlana karavA mATenA AziSa du:khamAM cittanI svasthatA. samAdhipUrvakanuM maraNa jIvananI sukhada paNa mAge che. AvanAra bhavamAM jo A badhuM chUTI jAya to mokSagAmI phalazruti che, ne sagati mATe kAraNarUpa paNa che. mRtyu samaye samatA yAtrA adhUrI rahI jAya. mATe jyAM sudhI mokSa na thAya tyAM sudhI TakAvavI muzkela hoya che. bhakta prArtha che ke, prabhu A veLAne tame jeTalA bhava levA paDe te pratyeka bhave A sarva mAgaNIo mane prApta saMbhALI lejo. saMsAranA satyone samajI tenA pratyenA rAga-dveSathI thAo-evI prArthanA sAdhaka kare che. ahIM sudhInI prArthanA AgaLa para thaI huM samatApUrvaka deha choDuM to mAro Avato bhava paNa A ja noMdhyuM tema gaNadharota che ne tyArapachInI prArthanA gItArtha guru yAtrAmAM AgaLa laI janAro banI rahe. mRtyune pote khoraDo bhagavaMto dvArA sUcita che. pAchaLathI ahIM teno prakSepa thayo che. badalavAnI kSaNa samajI sahajatApUrvaka teno svIkAra karI zake tevuM prArthanAsUramAM bhakta prabhu pratyenA AtmIyatAnA bhAvathI bhakta prArthe che. bhakta potAnA mRtyune sudhAravAnI jhaMkhanA ahIM prerAIne kahe che ke, "he vItarAga! tamArA siddhAMtamAM-zAsanamAM vyakta kare che. niyANuM (karela sukarmanuM icchita phaLa meLavavAnI mAgaNI) karavAno chellI prArthanA che bodhilAbhanI prAptinI - samyakdarzananI niSedha karAyo che; to paNa huM eTaluM to cokkasa mAgIza ke mane prAptinI. jJAna, darzana, cAritryanI sAcI samaja keLavAya to ja bhavobhava tamArA caraNonI sevA karavAnuM sadbhAgya sAMpaDe. jaina adhyAtmamArge AgaLa vadhI zakAya. Ama, jaina darzana pramANe dharma to mULe niSkAma bhaktine prAdhAnya Ape che mATe niyANuM to na samyakdarzana lAvyA pachI ja adhyAtmayAtrA kharA arthamAM AraMbhAtI ja baMdhAya. paraMtu A je mAgaNI che tene niyANuM kahevAya ja nahi. hoya che. mATe chelle prabhu pAse bhakta prArthe che ke mane sAcuM darzana A to bhaktinI bhASA che. AgaLa "AbhavamakhaMDA'mAM je guNo prApta thAo ne jethI AgaLa mAgela guNo ane anukULatAo vacce bhavobhava mane prApta thAya tevI mAgaNI che tenA anusaMdhAnamAM bhakta huM dharmamArge pagaraNa mAMDI zakuM. evuM kyAMka sAMbhaLeluM ke jene samyakatva AgaLa mAge che bhagavAnanuM zaraNuM. te jANe che ke jo bhagavAnanuM prApta thaI jAya teno mokSa niyata thaI jAya. e rIte ahIM bhakta zaraNuM nahi maLe, zAsana nahi maLe to kadAca bhaTakI javAnI mukta thavAnI ja ADakatarI prArthanA kare che. zakyatAo UbhI che. mATe mokSa jyAre maLe tyAre paNa tyAM sudhI prabhu pAse prArthanAo rajU karyA bAda sUtranA aMte sarvamaMgaLa prabhunuM zAsana-prabhuno mArga bhavobhava maLe jethI pathabhraSTa thavAnI bolAya che. temAM je prabhu-je zAsane sAco mArga ne sAcI samaja ciMtA ja na rahe. ApI che tenA pratyeno ahobhAva-kRtajJatA vyakta thaI che. ahIM bhagavAnanA caraNonI sevA vAMchI bhakta anya cAra prArthanAo bhaktanA aMtaranA udgAro sarI paDyA che. potAne jemanI pAsethI vItarAga deva pAse kare che, temAM eka che du :khano kSaya. bhakta mAge kalyANamArga sAMpaDyo che te zAsanano jaya jayakAra karyA vinA che ke, "he nAtha ! Apane praNAma karavAthI mArA du :khono kSaya thAo. bhaktathI rahevAtuM nathI. eTale te ullAsabhera kahI UThe che ke, "sarva duHkha to jIvamAtrane gamatuM nathI, paNa ahIM to sAdhaka potAnA maMgaLomAM, maMgaLarUpa, sarvanA kalyANanuM kAraNarUpa tathA sarva dharmomAM sAdhanAmArgamAM vighnarUpa banatA du:khonA kSayanI prArthanA kare che. je pradhAnarUpa che evuM jaina zAsana jayavaMtu varto. Ama, jayakArathI ahIM du:khano kSaya eTale du :khanA bhAvano kSaya karavAnI prArthanA AraMbhAyeluM sUtra jayakAra para virame che ne emAM Icchita prArthanAone che. sukhadu :kha to saMsAramAM rahevAnAM ja paNa prabhu zAsana maLatAM prApta karI sAdhanArata rahenAra sAdhakano paNa Akhare jayajayakAra mane evI avasthA prApta thAya ke jANItA stavananI paMktio "prabhu thAya che. tamane pAmyAnuM e sauthI moTuM sukha ke du:kha have lAge nA du:kha" saMdarbha graMthoH sArthaka thAya. vyavahArika rIte vicArIe to paNa du:khanA DarathI 1. zrI pratikramaNasutra prabodha TIkA, bhAga-1, du:kha dura karavAnI mAgaNI nathI karAI, paraMtu jyAM sudhI du:khanI le, dhIrajalAla TokarazI zAha, bIjI AvRtti, vi. saM. 2010. hAjarImAM paNa samAdhistha rahI, sthira rahI mokSamArganI sAdhano 2 satra saMvedanA, bhAga-2, karavAnuM sAmarthya mArAmAM na Ave tyAM sudhI mArA du:khono kSaya saM. sAdhvIzrI prazamitAzrIjI, cothI AvRtti, I. sa. 2012. thAo evo artha paNa vicArI zakAya. to vaLI, sAdhaka mATe bhava 3. mArI tera prArthanA, eTale ke saMsAracakra e ja sauthI moTuM duHkha che, mATe enA kSayanI 5. candrazokharavijayajI, prathama saMskaraNa, 1992. mAgaNI paNa emAM garbhita hoI zake. 4. jaya vItarAganI prArthanA, A duHkhano kSaya karmanA kSaya vinA zakya ja nathI, mATe AgaLanI 5. bhadraMkaravijayajI gaNivarya, bIjI AvRtti, vi. saM. 2034. prArthanA che ke karmano kSaya thAo. sAdhakane khyAla che ke jyAM sudhI - pa. prArthanA sUtra ke mAdhyama se paramAtmA ko prArthanA, karmo che tyAM sudhI tenA udaya pramANe sukhaduHkha to AvavAnA ja. sAcA sAdhaka mATe sukha ane du:kha baMne bAdhArUpa che. A cakramAMthI A. zrI. vi. kIrtiyazasUri, prathama AvRtti, vi. saM. 2059. mukta thavAno eka ja mArga che karmakSaya ne enA mATe saMvara ane gavarmenTa ArTsa enDa komarsa kaoNleja, AI.TI.AI. kempasa, nirjarA ja upAya che. navA karmono baMdha paDato aTake ane saMcita rApara-kaccha. Mob. : 07567064993. * * *
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________________ 14 prabuddha jIvana me, 2017 | dIrghadRSTa, kAMtadeSTA ane yogadaSTA AcAryazrInI tridivasIya kathA zrI buddhisAgarasUri kathA 'T padmazrI DaoN. phumArapALa desAI vizALa ghaTanAnuM bIja sAva nAnuM che. AjathI naveka varSa pahelAM kathA' ane gaye varSe "zrImad rAjacaMdra kathA'nuM Ayojana thayuM. A parama snehI-mitra zrI dhanavaMtabhAI zAha sAthe vAta thaI ke bhagavAna paraMparAmAM AgAmI 18-17-18 jUnanA roja "zrI buddhisAgarasUri mahAvIra vize ghaNe sthaLe ekAda vyAkhyAna ApyuM che, paNa kyAreka kathA'nuM Ayojana karavAmAM AvyuM che, tyAre e yogadRSTA AcArya enI vyAkhyAnamALA karavAno vicAra che. dhanavaMtabhAInA buddhisAgarasUrIzvarajI mahArAjanA jIvana para dRSTipAta karatAM ema saMvedanazIla cine A vAta tarata pakaDI lIdhI ane enA upara vicAra lAge che ke adhyAtmayogI AcAryazrI buddhisAgarasUrIzvarajInuM jIvana zarU karyo. emaNe kathAnI parikalpanA ApI ane saLaMga traNa divasa mAtra be paccIsInuM, paraMtu emanA jIvananA pUrvArdhamAM eka utkaTa sudhI tIrthakara, AcArya ke vibhUtinA jIvanane vizALa lokasamudAyanA sAdhaka ane dharmajijJAsu AtmAno Alekha jovA maLe che. emanA hRdayane sparze evI rIte kathAsvarUpe prastuti karavAno vicAra mUkyo. jIvananA uttarArdhamAM jainAcArya tarIkenI emanI AgavI garimA enI rajUAtanI javAbadArI mane soMpI ane emAMthI jaina najare paDe che. jinazAsanane pAmavAnA potAnA dhyeyanI ADe AvatA jagatamAM sauprathamavAra zrI muMbaI jaina yuvaka saMgha dvArA 2010nI tamAma avarodho emaNe pAra karyA ane vijApuranA zeTha nathubhAIno 7-8-9 okTobare tridivasIya "mahAvIrakathA'nuM Ayojana thayuM. sahayoga sAMpaDatAM jIvana utthAnanA sopAna para eka pachI eka gaMgotrImAMthI nIkaLIne jema gaMgAno vizALa paTa sarjAya, tema DagaluM AgaLa bharatA rahyA. emAMthI mahAna tyAgI, tejasvI ane mahAvIra kathA'thI zarU thayelI zrI zAsanaprabhAvaka sUripuMgava muMbaI jaina yuvaka saMgha Ayojita pribuddha vAcako, AcAryazrI buddhisAgara sUrijInI sAhitya samRddhi samAjane maLyA. zuddha vAcaka A viziSTa kathA prativarSa vize, ApaNe chellA traNeka aMkothI mANI rahyA chIe. jUna 16, e mahAna yogI hatA, uttama tridivasIya kathArUpe pragaTatI 17.18 tArIkhe karmayogI, dhyAnayogI, adhyAtmayogI masta avadhUta | kavi hatA, pravacana prabhAvaka rahI. ene eTalo badho AvakAra AcAryazrI buddhisAgara sUrIzvarajInA sAhitya sarjana vize DaoN. | hatA, mAnavatAnI bhAvanAthI maLyo ke pratyeka kathAne aMte | kumArapALa desAI jJAnayukta, ciMtanayukta, pravAhI ane marmagAmI | paripUrNa hatA, vajAMga brahmacaryanuM AgAmI kathAnA viSaya aMge | vANImAM kathA kaheze. teja dhAraNa karatA hatA. vizeSa zrotAone sabhAmAM pUchavAmAM | zrI bhagavAna mahAvIra janmakalyANaka divasa nimitte to yogI AnaMdaghananI yAda Ape AvatuM ane pachI emanI lAgaNIne | zrI muMbaI jaina yuvaka saMgha yojita evA ane aDhAre AlamanI cAhanA anulakSIne viSaya nakkI karavAmAM DaoN. kumArapALa desAInI jJAnasabhara vANI dvArA meLavanAra masta avadhUta hatA. Avato. Ama eka varSa pUrvethI adhyAtmayogI yoganiSTha zrotAonA manamAM kathAzravaNanI JJ buddhisAgarajI mahAIja kathA US AcArya buddhisAgarasUrIzvarajInA AturatA rahyA karatI. tArIkha : 16 jUna, zukravAra, sAMje 6-30 e samayano paNa vicAra karavo A kathAo eTalI loka 17 jUna, zanivAra, sAMje 6-30 joIe ke je samaye vahema, ajJAna cAhanA pAmI ke losa enjalisa, 18 jUna, ravivAra, savAre 10-00 ane bhUtapretanA bhayathI prajA laMDana ane gujarAtanA ghaNA sthaLa : bIkaNa banelI hatI, tyAre emaNe zaheromAM enuM Ayojana thayuM temaja bhAratIya vidyAbhavana, copATI, muMbaI nirbhayatAno siMhanAda karyo ane zrI muMbaI jaina yuvaka saMgha dvArA prajAmAM mardAnagInuM prAgaTya karyuM. teyAra thatI enI DIvIDI dvArA A o tridivasIya kathAnA saujanya dAtA eka satyavIranI samyakdaSTi prayoga deza-videzanA dharmajijJAsu zrI rAja sobhANa satsaMga maMDaLa AtmasAdhutA darzAvatI emanI evA vizALa varga sudhI pahoMcyo. sAyalA graMtharacanAo mAtra jainasamAjamAM "zrI mahAvIra kathA' pachI 'zrI smRtiH zrI sI. yu. zAha ja nahIM, paNa virATa ane vyApaka gautamakathA', 'zrI RSabhakathA', janasamUhamAM AtmajJAnanAM zrI nemarAjula kathA', "zrI pArtha pravezapatra mATe jijJAsuone tarata ja saMghanI ajavALAM pAtharanArI banI rahI. padmAvatI kathA', 'zrI hemacaMdrAcArya oNphisano saMparka karavA vinaMtI-23820296. deza gulAmIthI jakaDAyelo
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________________ me, 2017 prabuddha jIvana 15 hato, tyAre emaNe emanI graMtharacanAo dvArA AdhyAtmikatAno varSe paNa apanAvavA keTalA jarUrI che teno khyAla to I. sa. 1915nI zaMkhanAda phUMkyo. samaya jatAM keTalIka paraMparAo jhAMkhI paDe che ane navamI jAnyuArIe emanI aprasiddha DAyarImAM pramANikatAnA vismRta thAya che, e rIte yogasAdhanAnI paraMparA visarAtI jatI hatI mahimA vize lakhelA nibaMdhanA keTalAka aMza joIe. tyAre yoganiSTha AcAryazrIe potAnA dhyAnapUrNa jIvanathI ane yogaviSayaka "AryAvartanI avanati thavAnuM mukhya kAraNa kharekhara pramANika utkRSTa graMtharacanA karIne yogamArganuM mahimAgAna karyuM. bAhyAcAromAM guNathI vimukhatA thavI e ja che. pramANikatAmAM khAmI AvatAM DUbelA samAjane AtmAnA Urdhva mArgano paricaya Apyo ane alaukika AtmabaLa ghaTe che ane jagatanA satya-vyavahArano nAza thAya che. AnaMda ApatI adhyAtma-sAdhanAnI oLakha ApI. pramANikapaNAmAM khAmI AvatAM kusaMpa, kaleza, avyavasthA, yuddha, e aDhAre AlamanA avadhUta hatA. jaina ane brAhmaNa, piMjArA vizvAsaghAta vagere durguNo utpanna thAya che ane tethI AtmAnI ane ane pATIdAra, musalamAna ane ThAkaraDA sahu koI eka saMta tarIke anya manuSyonI avanatinI sAthe saMgha, samAja, nAta vyApAravidyA, sUrijIne AdarabhAva ApatA hatA. emaNe samAjamAM karelA sudhArA rAjya, deza, dharma vagerenI avanati thAya che. joIne koI samAjasudhAraka tarIke yAda kare che, to koI emanA "pramANika guNasaMbaMdhI bhASaNa karanArAo lAkho manuSyo maLI rAjakIya vicAro joIne dIrghadraSTA tarIke oLakhAve che. Avaze, paNa pramANikapaNe vartanArA to lAkhomAMthI pAMca manuSyo karmayogI, dhyAnayogI ane jJAnayogI AcAryazrI buddhisAgarasUrijInI paNa maLe athavA na maLe teno nizcaya karI zakAya nahIM. pramANikapaNe pratibhA evI hatI ke teo vartamAna paristhitino tAga meLavI zakatA vartanArA mArgAnusAri guNane prApta karIne samyakatvanI prApti karI ane bhaviSyanuM darzana karI zakatA hatA. jemake emaNe dhArmika karmayogI zake che ane samyakatvanI prApti thayA bAda cAritryanI prApti karIne ane vyavahArika karmayoginI kalpanA karI. evI ja rIte dhArmika karmayoginI te mokSapadanI prApti karI zake che. ane vyavahArika karmayoginI hovAnI vAta karI ane pachI 'karmayogInI 'AryAvarta vagere dezomAM pramANikatAno jo phelAvo thAya to bano' evI hAkala karatAM teo lakhe che, lUMTaphATa, kleza, yuddha, mArAmArI-gALAgALI, korTomAM aneka 'jaina komamAM zvetAMbara ane digaMbara ema be saMpradAya che, strInI prakAranA keso, kusaMpa ane azAMti vagereno nAza thAya, emAM jarA mukti, savasamukti ane kevalI muktinI mAnyatA vagere keTalIka mAtra saMzaya nathI. pramANikapaNe vartavAthI ane bolavAthI kharekharI upayogI nahi evI bAbatonI carcAmAM jaina komanA AgevAno svanI ane anya manuSyonI unnati karI zakAya che. pramANika manuSya zaktiono nakAmo durupayoga kare che. jaina sthAvara tIrthonA jhaghaDAmAM potAnA vicAro ane AcArothI pramANika guNanuM vAtAvaraNa baMne komonA gRhastho lAkho rUpiyAno nirarthaka vyaya kare che. je vizvamAM phelAve che ane te pramANika guNanA vAtAvaraNamAM saMbaMdhamAM je je matabhedo, takarAro vagere hAlanI jaina komanI vyAvahArika tathA manuSyo Ave che, te te manuSyone pramANika guNanI asara thAya che. dhArmika pragatimAM ADe AvatI hoya teno upazama tathA upekSA Aje ya jaina ekatAno prazna carcAya che tyAre yoganiSTha AcArya karavI joIe. jena koma jo nakAmI takarAro vagerenI murbAIno buddhisAgarasUrIzvarajIe vyakta karelA e vicAro joIe. tyAga nahi kare to teonI pragatinA bhogI bIjI komavALA thavAnA 'sAdhuo ane zrAvako have vartamAna samayano vicAra karIne cAlaze emAM lezamAtra zaMkA nathI. to teo duniyAmAM potAnI hayAtI rAkhI zakaze. zvetAMbaroe yA 'hiMdu koma, pArasI vagere komo dhArmika vicAromAM udAra che digaMbaroe paraspara aviruddha evAM dharmakAryone bhegAM maLIne karavA ane te komanA karmayogIonAM kartavyonAM kSetro vizALa che. jaina joIe. rAjya vahIvaTamAM jema bhinna bhinna jAtio bhegI thaIne komanA karmayogIonAM udAra vicArAcAra pravRttithI kArya kare evA eka matathI kAma calAve che tema sAmAnya dharmakAryomAM judA judA vizAla kSetro thavA joIe. phIrakAvALA jenoe bhegA maLIne ane saMpIne pravRtti karavI joIe.' 'tyAgI jena karmayogIo ghaNI chUTathI sarva dharme kartavya karmone "je jaino dravya, kSetra, kALa ane bhAvane joI zakatA nathI te jaino jaina kare te mATe teonA udAra vicArAcAranA mArgamAM kAMTAo je hoya zAsanano vijaya vAvaTo pharakAvavAne zaktimAna thatA nathI. jaina zAsananI te sApha karavA joIe. vidyAbaLa, kSetrabaLa, vaizyavyApArAdi baLa jeonA hRdayamAM UMDI dAjha che teo haTha kadAgrahano tyAga karIne jainonuM ane sevAbaLa vagere baLothI jaina komane vibhUSita karavA aneka bhaluM karavA ane saMgha vadhAravA sadAkALa prayatna kare che." jAtanA jaina karmayogIone pragaTAvavAnI ghaNI jarUra che. svataMtra eka sadI pUrve vyakta karelAM A vicAro Aje paNa apanAvavA yogya vicArAcAravALA vizALa karmayogIonI ghaNI jarUra che.' lAge che. AvA jJAnayogI, karmayogI ane dhyAnayogI yoganiSTha AcArya 'vidyamAna jaina sAdhuo jo dharmAcAra rUDhinI sAMkaDI dRSTivALA buddhisAgarasUrIzvarajI mahArAjanA jIvananI rasaprada ghaTanAo, emanuM raheze to teo jaina sAdhuonuM vizvamAMthI astitva ja gumAvI deze, graMthasarjana, emanI vicAradhArA ane emanI utkRSTa yogasAdhanAnI 'zrI mATe hAlanA karmayogI jaina sAdhuoe samAjanA udaya mATe buddhisAgarasUri kathA'mAM prastuti karavAmAM Avaze. * * * sarvasvArpaNa karIne AgaLa vadhavuM joIe.' 13 bI, caMdranagara sosAyaTI, jayabhikhkhuM mArga, pAlaDI, amadAvAda-380 yoganiSTha AcArya zrI buddhisAgarasUrijInA vicAro Aje ekaso 007. phona 079 2660 2675. mo. 098240 19925
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________________ prabuddha jIvana me, 2017 isuno mArga, krosano mArga | B phAdhara vargIsa vAlesa sau loko jANe che ke, guDa phrAIDe eTale prabhu IsunA mRtyuno paraMtu IsunuM jIvana tathA temano saMdeza eka sAmAnya yahUdI ke divasa. IsunA mRtyunA divasane kema guDa phrAIDe ke zubha avasara yahUdI dhArmika AgevAnanA jIvana ane saMdezathI bhinna hato. IsunuM kahevAmAM Ave che? ghaNA loko mATe A prazna koyaDArUpa che. khuda jIvana yahUdI dhArmika AgevAno mATe TIkArUpa hatuM. paDakArarUpa IsunA ziSyo IsunA krosanuM rahasya ke marma samajI zakyA na hatA. hatuM. Isu to jakAtadAro, vezyAo, anetika jIvana gALatI prathama be-traNa sadIonA AdikhristIo IsunA krosanuM rahasya strIo, yahUdIonA duzmana gaNAtA zamarunIo jevA samAjane barAbara samajI zakyA nahotA. dharmathI tiraskRta lokonI tema ja jAhera pApIonI paNa sobata eka vAra Isue potAnA ziSyone potAnA mRtyunI vAta karI rAkhatA hatA. temanI sAthe jamatA paNa hatA. jakAtadAro ane bIjA hatI tyAre temanA ziSyoe virodha karyo hato. eka vAra Isue pApIone paNa Isune sAMbhaLavA mATe AvatA joIne pharozIo ziSyone pUchyuM, 'tame zuM kaho cho? huM koNa chuM?' enA javAbamAM ane zAstrIo baDabaDATa karatA hatA. Isue temane kahyuM, jemane pItare kahyuM, "Apa to khrista cho, cetanasvarUpa IzvaranA putra." pazcAttApanI jarUra nathI evA navANuM puNyazALI mANaso karatAM (mAththI 16:15-16). pazcAttApa karanAra eka pApI mATe svargamAM vadhAre AnaMdotsava haze. pItaranA A zraddhAnivedana pachI Isue prathama vAra potAnA (luka 15:7). mRtyunI AgAhI karI hatI. IsunA krUra mRtyunI AgAhI sAme pItare IsunA jIvananI jema emanA saMdezA paNa yahUdI dharmanA sakhata virodha uThAvyo. paNa Isue pItarane kahyuM, "tuM mArA mArgamAM AgevAno ane paMDito mATe TIkArUpa ane paDakArarUpa hatA. Isu ADakhIlIrUpa che. tuM duniyAdArInI dRSTie ja jue che, IzvaranI garIba lokonI taraphadArI karatA hatA. Isu aMtima nyAyanI vAtamAM dRSTie joto nathI." (mAththI 16:23). kharA dharmiSTha mANasone kahe che, "A mArA bhAIomAMnA adanAmAM prathama traNeya zubhasaMdezakAroe noMdhyuM che tema, Isue traNa-traNa adanA mATe je kaMI karyuM che, te mAre mATe ja karyuM che." (mAththI 25:40). vAra potAnA krosa paranA mRtyunI AgAhI karI hatI. chatAM IsunA IsunA ziSyo vacce "IzvaranA rAjyamAM sauthI moTuM koNa che?' ziSyo ane AdikhristIo IsunA krosa paranA mRtyu ane punarutthAna enI vAta thaI tyAre Isue kahyuM, "cokkasa mAnajo ke, jyAM sudhI pachI paNa IsunA krosanuM rahasya samajI zakyA nahotA. eTale prathama tamArI vRtti na badalAya ane tame bALaka jevA na banI jAo tyAM be-traNa sadInA khristIo krosane koI mahattva ApatA nahotA. sudhI tame kadI IzvaranA rAjyamAM dAkhala thaI zakavAnA nathI. je temanA jIvanamAM krosanuM nAmonizAna nahotuM. koI potAnI jAtane bALakanA jevI nAnI banAvI deze te ja IzvaranA kAraNa, pItaranI jema khristI loko paNa krosa para IsunA mRtyune rAjyamAM sauthI moTo gaNAze." (mAththI 18:24). kevaLa mANasanI dRSTie jotA hatA. IsunA zabdomAM kahIe to, Isue potAnA ziSyo sAthenA chellA bhojana vakhate temane khristIo IsunA krosa paranA mRtyune kevaLa duniyAdArInI dRSTie namratAno padArthapATha Apyo. yahUdIomAM mahemAnonA paga dhovAnI jotA hatA. teo IsunI jema IzvaranI dRSTie jotA nahotA. prathA hatI. ghaNuMkharuM gulAma ke nokara paga dhovAnI vidhi karato hato. ApaNe IsunI dRSTie eTale khuda IzvaranI dRSTie samajavA paraMtu Isue eka kUMDAmAM pANI kADhI badhA ziSyonA paga dhoIne prayatna karIe to eka vAta spaSTa thAya che. khuda IsunA jIvana ane oDhelA aMgUchA vaDe lUchaDyA. pachI bhANA upara besIne Isu bolyA, saMdezane kAraNe ja Isune mArI nAkhavAmAM AvyA che. Ama joIe "samaja paDe che, meM tamane zuM karyuM? tame mane gurudeva ane prabhu kaho to ApaNe kahI zakIe ke, krosa para IsunI rAjakIya hatyA thaI che. cho, ane e yogya che, kAraNa, huM chuM ja. eTale prabhu ane gurudeva romana sAmrAjyamAM adhikArIo dezadroha mATe rAjakIya gunA mATe hovA chatAM meM tamArA paga dhoyA, to tamAre paNa ekabIjAnA paga gunegArone krosa para mArI nAkhatA hatA. dhovA joIe. meM tamane dAkhalo besADyo che. meM jema tamane karyuM tema romanomAM gunegAranA cokkasa gunAnuM lakhANa lakhIne enA gaLAmAM tamAre paNa karavuM." (yohAna 13:12-17). laTakAvavA ke krosa para coMTADavAnI prathA hatI. IsunA gunA tarIke sUbA Isue sevAno spaSTa saMdeza Apyo che. prathama traNeya pontiyusa pilAte eka lakhANa lakhAvIne krosa para coMTADI dIdhuM che. temAM zubhasaMdezakAroe enI spaSTa vAta karI che. Isu potAnA ziSyone lakhyuM hatuM: 'nAsarethano Isu yahUdIono rAjA" (yohAna 19:19) traNa kahe che, "tamArAmAM to je koI moTo thavA Icchato haze teNe tamArA bhASAmAM eTale hibrumAM, leTinamAM ane grIkamAM e lakhANa hatuM. Aje sevaka thavuM paDaze; ane je koI tamArAmAM pahelo thavA icchato haze badheya krosa para INRI' ema cAra akSara dekhAya che. enuM pUrNa rUpa che lesus teNe badhAnA gulAma thavuM paDaze. kAraNa, khuda mAnavaputra (eTale Nazarenum Rex ludeorum. Isu pote) sevA levA nahi paNa sevA karavA, ane saunI mukti ahIM ApaNe bhUlavuM na joIe ke, Isu eka yahUdI tarIke janmyA. mATe potAnuM jIvana arpI devA avataryo che. (mArka 10:43-45). yahUdI tarIke bALa IsunuM pAlanapoSaNa thayuM hatuM. eTale Isu yahUdI Isue nevedya karatAM mAphIne vadhAre mahattva ApyuM che. potAnA tarIke jIvyA ane eka yahUdI baLavAkhora tarIke krosa para emanI sagAMsaMbaMdhIone, grAhakone ke Azritane lUMTIne udAratAthI rAjakIya hatyA thaI. maMdiramAM dAna nAkhatA lokone Isu kahe che, "vedI para nevedya dharAvatAM
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________________ me, 2017 prabuddha jIvana 17 tane yAda Ave ke, tArA bhAIne tArI sAme kaMI phariyAda che, to phasAyA. temanA virodhIo eka pachI eka tyAMthI jatA rahyA ane tAruM naivedya vedI AgaLa ja rahevA daI nIkaLI paDaje. pahelAM tArA Isu ekalA e bAI sAthe rahyA. Isue A bAIne mAphI ApatAM bhAI sAthe samAdhAna karaje, ane tyAra pachI AvIne nevedya dharAvaje.' kahyuM, 'huM paNa tane sajA nathI karato. jA, havethI pApa karIza nahi." (mAththI 5:23-24). (yohAna 8:11). eka vAra kSamA vize pItare Isune pUchayuM, "prabhu, mAro bhAI mAphIno A prasaMga ane pApIone mAphI ApavAnA aneka prasaMgo aparAdha kare, to mAre keTalI vAra kSamA karavI? sAta vAra?' Isue ghoSaNA kare che ke, Isu ane IsunA Izvara pitA (baMne eka ja che) pApI tene kahyuM, "mAro javAba e che ke, sAta vAra nahi, paNa sittera mANaso para anahada prema rAkhe che. mANasa mATenA IzvaranA binazaratI vakhata sAta vAra." (mAththI 18:21:22). matalaba che ke, kSamA ApavA premamAM mANasanAM pApathI koI vadhaghaTa thatI nathI. Izvarano prema zAzvata ane kSamA mAgavAmAM koI maryAdA nathI. che. mANasa ja pApathI IzvarathI dUra bhAge che to paNa prANI mANasa mATeno IsunuM zikSaNa apakAra upara upakAra karavAnuM che. "huM tamane kahuM Izvarano prema binazaratI che. eTale Izvarano prema mANasane pApamAMthI chuM ke, tamAru bUruM karanArano sAmano karazo nahi. balake, jo koI pAchA AvavA AmaMtyA kare che. tamArA jamaNA gAla upara tamAco mAre, to tenI AgaLa bIjo pApanI mAphI ane Izvara zAzvata ne binazaratI premanI vAta dharajo." (mAththI 5:39). vaLI, 'huM tamane kahuM chuM ke, tamArA zatru yahUdI dharma ane dhArmika AgevAno mATe paDakArarUpa che. IzvaranA upara prema rAkho ane tamane raMjADanAra mATe duA mAgo." (mAththI prema ane mAphInI A samajaNathI yahUdI dharmanA kAyadAkAnUno, 5:44). 'koIno nyAya toLazo nahi, jethI tamAro nyAya nahi dharmavidhio ane balidAnonuM mahattva ghaTe che. eTaluM ja nahi, paNa toLAya. jevo nyAya tame toLazo tevo nyAya tamAro paNa toLAze.' yahUdI dharmanA astitva mATe bhayAvaha bane che. eTale ja yahUdI (mAththI 7:1-2 ).. vaDApurohita kAyaphA variSThasabhAmAM bhegA maLelA badhA purohito Isue mAMdAone sAjAM karyA che. bhUkhyAne khavaDAvyuM che. AMdhaLAne ane pharozIne kahyuM, "A mANasa (Isusto) to puSkaLa camatkAro dekhatA karyA che. du:khIone dilAso Apyo che. lUka kahe che ke, 'loko kare che. ApaNe jo ene phAve tema karavA daIzuM, to badhA ja loko Isuno upadeza sAMbhaLIne khUba Azcarya pAmatA, kAraNa, emanA zabdomAM emanA upara zraddhA rAkhatAM thaI jaze, ane romana loko AvIne adhikArano raNako hato." (lUka 4:32). "ane IsunI kIrti AsapAsanA ApaNA maMdirano nAza karaze. paNa teomAMno eka kAyaphA, je te ekeeka gAme prasarI gaI." (lUka 4:37). TUMkamAM kahuM to Isu saunuM bhaluM varase vaDo purohita hato te bolyo, tamane kazI gatAgama ja nathI. karatA hatA ane bIjAne paNa evuM karavA preratA hatA. eTale IsunA tame eTalo vicAra kema nathI karatA, ke prajAne khAtara eka mANasa jIvanathI emanA kAryo ane saMdeze puSkaLa lokone AkarSA ane badhAya marI jAya ane AkhI prajA vinAzamAMthI UgarI jAya e tamArA Isune maLavA ToLeToLA bhegA maLatA hatA. hitamAM che." (yohAna 11:47-50). IsunA A prakAranAM jIvana ane saMdezathI eka bAju emanI kIrti eka bAju yahUdI AgevAnone IsunA jIvana ane premanA saMdezathI comera phelAI rahI ane lokonA ToLeToLA IsunI AsapAsa bhegA AkarSAIne emanI AsapAsa bhegI maLatI vadhatI jatI lokamedanIne thavA lAgyA. Isune sAMbhaLavA ane emanAthI sAjA thavA mATe kAraNe romana loko AvIne yahUdI lokonA maMdirano ane yahUdI AvatA lokonI saMkhyA satata vadhatI rahI to bIjI bAju Isu sAmeno prajAno nAza karaze evI bIka sevatA hatA. to bIjI bAju romana virodha paNa satata vadhato rahyo. dhArmika AgevAno, zAstrIo ane sattAnA adhikArIo paNa IsunA jIvana, emano saMdeza tathA emanI pharozIo eka yA bIjI rIte emane phasAvavA mAgatA hatA. AsapAsa bhegA maLatA ToLAno khyAla rAkhatA hatA. ane romana vyabhicAra karatAM pakaDAyelI bAInI vAta khUba jANItI che. sattA sAme 'rAjA IsunI AgevAnI heThaLa yahUdI prajA baLavo IsunA virodhIoe e bAIne Isu AgaLa ToLA vacce UbhI rAkhIne karavAnI zakyatAno bhaya sevatA hatA. Isune pUchyuM, "gurujI, A bAI pratyakSa vyabhicAra karatAM pakaDAI TUMkamAM kahIe to, prabhu Isu so loko mATe vizeSa to garIbo, che. have zAstramAM mozee ApaNane evI bAIne paththare-paththare mArI dalito tathA zoSita loko mATe jIvyA che. A prakAranAM IsunAM nAkhavAnuM pharamAveluM. to Apa zuM kaho cho ?' kArya ane saMdeza svArthI ne ApamatalabI loko mATe paDakArarUpa mozee zAstramAM ApelA kAyadA mujaba vartavA lokone kaheze hatAM. kAraNa, garIbo ne dalitonA zoSaNa karatAM zoSaNakhoro mATe to Isu para hatyAnA gunAno Aropa mUkI zakAya. kAraNa, koIne IsunuM jIvana tathA emano saMdeza bhayarUpa hatA. A badhAM loko mRtyudaMDa ApavAno adhikAra mAtra romana sattA pAse hato. vaLI, potapotAnI dRSTi pramANe Isune sAmAjika, dhArmika ane rAjakIya IsunI dayA ane mAphInI vAtane phoka gaNI Isu para takasAdhu gunegAra mAnatA hatA. bIjA zabdomAM kahIe to, IsunAM jIvana upadezaka hovAno Aropa mUkI zakAya. bIjI bAju vyabhicArI bAIne ane saMdezane kAraNe ja romana sUba pontiyusa pilAte yahUdI dharmanA mAphI ApI ene choDI devAno Adeza Apaze to Isu para mozenA AgevAno tathA temanA anuyAyIoe sAthe maLIne Isune krUsa pavitra kAyadAne toDavAno Aropa mUkI zakAya. have Isu pAse koI para caDhAvIne mArI naMkhAvyA che. chaTakabArI nathI evI khAtarIthI emanA virodhIo emane prazna pUchatA prabhu Isue potAnA samayamAM garIba ane dalita loko sAthe rahyA. Akhare Isue temane saMbhaLAvyuM, 'tamArAmAM je niSpApa hoya maLIne jAtajAtanAM du:kho vekyAM che, ane teo anyAya ane te ene pahelo paththara mAre." (yohAna 8:7). have IsunA virodhIo anItino bhoga banyA che. e ja rIte Aje paNa Isu du:khIto,
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________________ 18 prabuddha jIvana me, 2017 pIDito ane vividha prakAranI satAmaNIno bhoga banatA loko sAthe paristhitimAM ene teDI Ave che. chellA varSa 2016mAM dara miniTe du:khI che, pIDita che. satAmaNI anubhave che. krUsa paranA 6 mANaso prabhu Isu paranI zraddhAthI mRtyune bheTyA che, zahIda thayA nAmozIbharyA mRtyune bheTe che. krUsanuM e rahasya che ke, Isu Izvara che. krosano-IzvaranA anahada premano-e camatkAra che. * * * pitAnA asIma premathI AjanA mANasanI sAthe ne sAthe che. amIbelA bilDiMga, sanmAna haoNTela pAse, apa Inkama TekSa aMDara brIja, mANasa mATeno Izvarano binazaratI prema mANasane enI badhI amadAvAda-380014.Ph. : 079-27542922 (M) 94295-16498. zrImad rAjacaMdrajInA zrI AtmasiddhizAstranuM abhinava svarUpa saptabhASI Atmasiddhi sadaguru Adezita saMpAdana HprA. pratApakumAra ToliyA prajJAcakSu DaoN. paM. sukhalAlajInI pAvana nizrA ane gujarAta zrI AtmisiddhizAstranA gAnanuM rekarDiMga to pachIthI 1974nI vidyApITha amadAvAdanA saMskAra baMne 1970mAM choDavAnuM banyuM. kArataka pUrNimAnI zrImad jayaMti dine thayuM, paraMtu "saptabhASI zrImad rAjacaMdrajI pratyenA janmajAta saMskAra ane niSThAne sudaDha karavA Atmasiddhi'nuM anuvAdana-saMpAdananuM gurudeva zrI sahajAnaMdaghanajInI mATe AnI pAchaLa sadguru-AjJA hatI. parikalpanA ane AjJAnuM sarvaprathama zubha sarjana kArya to temanI zrImad rAjacaMdra janma zatAbdIthI avAranavAra eka vinamratAnI nizrAmAM ja 1970mAM maMgala AraMbha pAmyuM. mUrti evA ane prasiddhithI dUra rahI guptapaNe vicaratA jaina muni AtmajJAnanA suvarNa zikhara samI A 142 gAthAonI temane amadAvAda AvIne maLatA. e hatA zrImad rAjacaMdrajI pratye amarakRtine navatara rUpe mUkavAnI temanI dRSTi hatI. graMthanA eka svayaM yuvAvayathI sarvasaMga parityAgI the. sAdhu hovA chatAM, jIvana- eka pRSTha zrI AtmasiddhinI eka eka gAthA zrImadjInA mULa samarpita thayelA zrI bhadramuni-sahajAnaMdaghanajI. A lekhakane paNa hastAkSaromAM mUkAya ane tenI nIce mudrita rUpe A sAta bhASAonA temano prathama ane preraka prabhAvabharyo paricaya viduSI vimalAtAI kAvyamaya anuvAda mUkavAmAM Ave. mudrita joDaNI zuddha gujarAtI, saMge iDara pahADa paranA zrImad dhyAna-dhAmamAM thaI cUkelo. saMskRta, hindI, marAThI, baMgalA, kannaDa ane aMgrejI. prAraMbhamAM A pU. zrI sahajAnaMdaghanajIe, potAne yugapradhAnapada prApta thayA lekhanI zarUAtamAM ApelI "pratIkSA che sUryanI!' zIrSaka zrI chatAM, svayaMne gopavIne, dAsAnudAsarUpe mAnIne zrImad rAjacaMdrajInA sahajAnaMdaghanajInI zrImadrasAhityane gujarAta-gujarAtInI bahAra nAme Azrama sthApelo-kaccha gujarAtathI bhAratabharanA tIrthomAM lAvavAnI bhAvanAno ullekha thAya. pachI zrI AtmasiddhizAstranA vicarIne ane guphAomAM maunapUrvaka, ThAma-covihArayukta pariSaha sarjana pUrvanI bhUmikA ane tenI 1896nA Aso vadI ekamanI ane upasargo sahyAM bAda! yugapradhAna bhadrabAhu svAmInI karNATakanI naDiyAdamAMnI racanA tasvIra sAthe apAya. 142 gAthAonA 142 yoga bhUmimAM, jaMgalamAM maMgalavatuM, suramya ratnakUTa parvatikA para, pRSThonI AgaLa ane pAchaLa saMbhava te badhI ja graMthaviSayaka sAmagrI bhagavAna munisuvrata svAmI ane bhagavAna rAmanI kilikindhAnagarI ane kartA zrImadjInI pRSThabhUmi apAya. jemanA prathama ane prabaLa ane vijayanagaranA raMpInA khaMDero ne guphAonA sthAna para e Azrama nimitte A amarakRti racAI tevA zrImadjInA 'hRdayasvarUpa" temanI asAmAnya AtmasAdhanAnI sAkSI Apato Aje Ubho che! prAtaHsmaraNIya sakhA zrI saubhAgyabhAInuM citra ane zrImadjIne zrImanuM sAhitya gurjarasImAne oLaMgIne hindI bhASI sarvathA samarpita, laghutAmAM prabhutAthI sabhara evA prabhuzrI laghurAjanI vistAromAM mahekavA lAge e paNa jarUrI che. mahAtmA gAMdhIjInA tasvIra ane 'upadezAmRta'nuM temanuM Atmasiddhi-mahimA viSayaka A ahiMsaka zikSakane gAMdhIjInI jema jagatanI samakSa prastuta karavA lakhANa paNa mUkAya. joIe, ke jethI jagata zAMtinI zodhamAM sAcuM mArgadarzana prApta karI kAvyamaya anuvAdo je upalabdha hoya te upayogamAM levAya ane zake. je na hoya te navesarathI karAvAya. majAnI vAta e hatI ke, temaNe zrI sahajAnaMdajIe A ja vAta prabaLarUpe potAnI prasAda-oja- zrI sahajAnaMdaghanajIe kRtinA aMgrejI uparAMta hindI anuvAdanuM mAdhuryabharI vANImAM 1967nI zrImad zatAbdInI TeIpa 'vizvamAnava zubha kArya A paMktilekhakane soMpyuM ane pote pUrve karelA hindI zrImad rAjacaMdrajI'mAM rajU karI che. to AvA zrImad jIvanadarzana- gAnamaya anuvAdanI vAta mane karI ja nahIM. mArA sarjana-puruSArthane kavanane samarpita zrI sahajAnaMdaghanajI pAse mokalavAno, svayaM paNa gati ApavAnI ane potAnI kSamatAne gopavI rAkhavAnI kadAca zrImadbhasaMniSTha evA mahAprAjJa paMDitazrI sukhalAlajIno aneka bhAvi temanI dRSTi haze! paraMtu temanA jIvanakALa bAda temanI bhASAMtarita saMbhAvanAonuM ArSa evuM pUrvadarzana karIne, A lekhakane Adeza thayo! A hindI kRti hAtha lAgatAM saptabhASI graMthamAM temanI ja e kRti
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________________ me, 2017 prabuddha jIvana 19 ucita samajIne mAro ahaMbhAva zUnya karavA mATe mUkI. aMgrejI hepImAM temanI guphAmAM saptabhASI graMthanI anuvAdita hastaprata temane paNa nikaTa adhikArI evA pU. zrI brahmacArIjI racita e ja kAraNe saMzodhanArtha soMpavA pahoMcyo. e hAthamAM laIne potAnI pATa paranA mUkI. vAstavamAM aMgrejI anuvAdo to mahAtmA gAMdhIjI sameta ozikAnA sthAne mUkI dIdhI! (ozikuM ke koI kapaDuM paNa teo aneka vidvAnoe karyA che. astu. pATa para pAtharatAM, rAkhatA nahIM-evI dehadazAmAM paNa !) bolyA: - have anya anuvAdomAM paMDitazrI becaradAsajIkRta saMskRta, 'pratApabhAI! rahevA do...hamaNAM nahIM..." A sAMbhaLI AMcakAbharyo ajJAta'kRta marAThI to maLyA, paraMtu baMgalA anuvAda zrI AghAta anubhavato stabdha rahI gayo. mauna parata Avyo. bIjA sahajAnaMdaghanajInA bhakta zrI bhaMvaralAlajI nAhaTA pAse navesarathI divase, temanA peTa para nisargopacAranI bhInI mATI laIne mUkavA karAvAyo ane kannaDa anuvAda geyarUpe-kAvyarUpe tyAre nahIM maLatAM gayo, kAraNa, davA to teo koI letA na hatA. A joI teo gadyarUpe DaoN. e. ena. upAdhdhano mUkyo-anya vidvAna DaoN. jayacaMdra khaDakhaDATa hasyA ane pUchayuM : pAse kannaDa bhASAne zuddha karAvIne. "A mATInA deha upara mATI mUkazo?' 142 pAnAonA anuvAdonA AgaLa pAchaLanA pRSThonI zakya mATI paNa mUkavA na dIdhI ane teo eka ajaba AnaMdabharyA te sAmagrI AMtararASTrIya upayogItA sAra aMgrejImAM ane thoDI aMtaramaunamAM DUbI gayA. vadana para e ja prasannatA! vacanamAM kyAMya hindImAM paNa apAI. temAM zrImajI ane Atmasiddhi viSayaka dehapIDAno UMhakAro ke aNasAro nahIM!! "jJAnInuM pArakhuM khATale aneka prabuddhajanonAM kathano vaNI levAyA. mahAtmA gAMdhIjInA ne pATale' kahevatavALI temanI A adbhuta dehabhinna AtmajJAnanI mahattvanA thoDA lakhANone khAsa mahattva ApyuM. uparAMta je saMpanna anubhava dazA ame daMga thaI sagI AMkhe nihALatA rahyAM! dehAtIta thaI zakyuM teno ullekha paNa saMkSepamAM karAyo. A mahAkAryane Ama Atmasiddhi-dazA prApta karavAno pratyakSa pATha ame sau Azrama0 saMpanna karAvavAnAM pAMca pAMca preraNAdAtAo hatA: zrI jano zIkhavA mathatA rahyA. temanuM svAcya uttarottara kathaLatuM ja rahyuM. sahajAnaMdaghanajI, prajJAcakSu paM. sukhalAlajI, AcArya gurudayAla chatAM, AvI zarIrAvasthA vacce paNa eka camatkAravat teo pUrvavat mallikajI, AtmajJA mAtAjI dhanadevIjI ane viduSI vimalAtAI. apUrva ullAsa saha potAnA AtmAnubhava bharelAM durlabha nitya temAM prathama praNetA gurudeva zrI sahajAnaMdaghanajIe hAtha pakaDIne pravacano ApatAM rahyAM. e saghaLAMe paryuSaNa-pravacano zrI kalpasUtra maMgaLa AraMbha karAvyo. ratnakUTa kaMpInI sAdhakaguphAmAM ekAMta paranA ane pachInAM dasa divasanAM 'dazalakSaNa dharma" paranAM asAdhAraNa lekhanakArya mATe besuM tyAre tyAM premapUrvaka potAnuM nAnakaDuM lekhana- ane baMne jaina paraMparAnAM zrImadjI pachI koIe paNa nahIM cIMdhelA meja (DhALiyuM) lakhavA mokalI Ape. pachI temanI guphAmAM jauM tyAre evA samanvaya bharelAM hatA. aMgreja, A lekhake ane anya eka teo e badhuM joIne sudhArI ke sUcano karIne Ape. dUra amadAvAdathI sAdhakamitre tyAre TeIpa karI saMgharI rAkhelAM e abhUtapUrva pravacano, pUjya paMDitajI paNa samaya samaya para temAM patrothI preraNA bharatA pradhAnapaNe zrI Atmasiddhi zAstra-darzita anubhava mArgarahe. bhAre prasannatA ane dhanyatApUrvaka tyAre A be be puruSonA AtmAnubhavanA prAyogika sAkSAtkAra mArga dvArA, ekatA jhaMkhatA, mArgadarzanathI A mahakArya gatizIla banyuM. temaNe bhAre moTI anekAMtane anusaratA ArAdhaka-jaino mATe upakAraka, upAdeya ane kRpA karIne A aNaghaDa paththara-zA vyaktine nimitta ane mAdhyama dIvAdAMDI tulya banavAnAM che bhAvimAM. banAvyo. saptabhASI AtmasiddhinuM saMpAdana kArya tyAre adhUruM ja rahI gayuM. niyaticakranA be aNadhAryA vajAghAto varSothI rokAI raheluM A mahAkArya aMte saMvedanAbharyA karuNAtmA saptabhASI AtmasiddhinA sAnaMda cAlI rahelA kArya vacce gurudeva viduSI vimalAtAIe pUjya paMDitazrI sukhalAlajInI paNa preraNAthI, sahajAnaMdaghanajInA jIvananI gaMbhIra ghaTanA ghaTI, AtmAthI saMpUrNa mAunTa Abu beThAM beThAM aneka prakAranI sahAyatAo-anuvAdana, AnaMdamaya rahevA chatAM udayakarmavaza zarIre vyAdhigrasta thaI gayA. saMpAdana, mArgadarzana, purovacana, lekhanAdi uparAMta apAra Avazyaka ThAma covihAranI ane koIpaNa auSadhopacAra ke labdhicamatkAra dhanarAzi paNa mokalAvIne saMpanna karAvyuM. baMnethI dUra rahI temanI saMsthiti hatI. zrImadjI-praNIta akhaMDa jenA vize kumArapALabhAI desAI lakhe che ke, gujarAtI AtmAnubhavamAM: sAhityanuM eka anupama sarjana ane tattvajJAnanI eka anupama kRtinA 'deha bhinna kevaLa caitanyanuM jJAna re.. mULa bhAva jALavIne sAta sAta bhASAmAM eno samazlokI anuvAda kevaLa nijasvabhAvanuM akhaMDa varte jJAna.' karavo e kaparA caDhANa caDhavA jevuM kArya prA. pratApakumAra ToliyAnA zrI AtmasiddhinAM parama-vacano temaNe anubhavamAM utAryA hatAM. dhyAna sAdhanAnA prabaLa sAmarthya siddha thayuM.' * * * temanI AvI dehAvasthA ane bAhyAMtara dazAmAM eka savAre mobAIla : 9611231589
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________________ 20 prabuddha jIvana me, 2017 jaina dharmamAM apavAda mArganuM svarUpa | DaoN. chAyA zAha | utsarga mArga eTale sarvajJa prabhue prarUpelo mArga. kyAreka utsarga (3) apavAda mArganuM trIjuM lakSaNa zubhapaNuM mArga choDIne apavAda mArga apanAvavo paDe che. mahApuruSoe apavAda evo hovo joIe ke je zubha hoya, hitakArI hoya. buddhipUrvaka kaTokaTIno samaya pArakhIne, te paNa potAnI jema ke pitA-gurune paga na aDADAya. te utsarga mArga che. paraMtu bahuzrutatAnA AdhAra para, tema ja svayaM mahApuruSa hovAne lIdhe temane zArIrika takalIphamAM jarUra paDaze emanI pITha para UbhA rahevuM bhavabhIrU rahIne, pApano pUro bhaya rAkhIne apavAda Acarelo hoya, paDe. pagethI kacaravI paNa paDe. A apavAda mArga che, zubha che. kAraNa mATe te apavAda mAnya thaI zake che. ke upakArI pUjyanI sevA mATe paga lagADAya che. evI rIte sAdhune utsarga mArga choDIne kyAreka AcaravAmAM Avela sAcA apavAda rogamAM cikitsA karAvavI paDe tyAM apavAdavAdanuM sevana thAya che mArganA lakSaNa nIce pramANe hoya che. paraMtu e samAdhi ane ratnatrayInI adhika sAdhanA mATe hovAthI AcArya haribhadrasUrIzvarajIe lalitavistarA graMthamAM sAcA zubha che. AvuM zubha hoya che tema zubhAnubaMdhI arthAt zubhanI apavAda mArganA lakSaNo batAvyA che. paraMparAvALo hoya che. (1) utsarga - apavAdano uddeza eka joIe (4) apavAdanuM eka e paNa lakSaNa che ke mahApuruSathI sevelapaNuM arthAt utsarga je uddezathI hoya te ja uddezathI apavAda hovo utsarga mArganI jema saMyogavazAt sevelA evA zuddha apavAda joIe arthAt apavAda pariNAme utsargano poSaka hoya che. dA.ta. mArgathI paNa AtmAnI UMcI UMcI bhUmikA siddha thatI Ave che. e munine mATe utsarga mArga e che ke pRthvIkAya, apakAya vagere jIvonI mATe apavAdanA A lakSaNa tarIke e apavAda mahApuruSoe sevelo hiMsA na karAya. Ano uddeza saMyamanuM pAlana che. have e saMyama to ja che, te joIe. vIra prabhune kevaLajJAna sudhI mauna rAkhavAnuM hatuM. rahe muni viharatA rahI gRhastha AdinA rAgamAM na phasAya. have chatAM apavAde caMDakauzika sarpane "bujja burja caMDakoziyA" ema viharatA rahevAmAM kadAca vacamAM nadI ya Ave to vidhisara pANImAM uccAraNa karI sarpane dIrgha durgatinI paraMparAmAMthI bacAvI lIdho? paga mUkI nadI pAra kare. AmAM alabat hiMsA che. tethI te apavAda jaMghAbaLa kSINa thaI jatAM moTA AcAryo apavAda sthiravAsa gaNAya, paNa uddeza saMyamano che. tethI te apavAdika hiMsA utsargane karatA ethI e aneka virAdhanAothI bacI jatA. AvA lakSaNovALA bAdhaka nathI banatI, paNa utsarganA uddezathI ja apavAda mArga apavAda utsargano ja eka prakAra che, kema ke eTalI vizeSatAvALo apanAvAya che. baMnne mArgano uddeza eka ja che. muni vihAra na kare ne apavAda e utsarganA sthAne rahevAthI utsarganA phaLane sAdhI Ape che. eka ja jagyAe rahe to ghaNA doSa sevAya. (doSanuM varNana pAchaLa eTalA mATe ja ahIM eTaluM dhyAnamAM rAkhavAnuM ke apavAda kaMI Ave che.) jyAM ne tyAM, jema ne tema sevavAno nathI. utsargapAlanamAM azakyatA (2) apavAda mArganuM bIjuM lakSaNa che : gauravalAghavano vicAra hoya, utsarga pALavA jatAM saMyogone lIdhe bIjA vadhu doSa UbhA arthAt e vicArAtuM hoya ke vadhu doSa zemAM che ane ocho doSa thatA hoya...ItyAdi kAraNo hoya ane apavAda sevanathI e zemAM ? utsarga pakaDI rAkhavAmAM ke apavAda sevavAmAM? utsarga- Apattio TaLI jatI hoya, vadhu hita thatuM hoya, tyAM apavAda apavAda baMnne sAme Ave tyAre e jovAnuM ke utsarga pakaDI rAkhI sevavAno che. te paNa jarUra jeTalo ja, ne jarUrI kALa jeTalo ja. apavAda tyajavAmAM doSa vadhu-ocho ke utsarga choDI apavAda game tema, game tyAre apavAda apanAvAto nathI. jema kebhajavavAmAM doSa vadhu-ocho? 'gaurava-lAghavano vicAra.' vicAravuM 1. apavAda 1 sUtrano bAdhaka hoya. joIe ke apavAda na sevatA utsarga pakaDI rakhAya to vadhu lAbha 2. gorava lAghavanA vicAra vagarano hoya. 3. ahitanI paraMparA calAvanAro hoya. zuM? ane utsarga choDI apavAda sevAya to vadhu lAbha zuM? pUrve 4. AtmAne ahitakArI hoya. sAdhune apavAde nadI pAra karavAnuM kahyuM. AmAM pANInI virAdhanA 5. aghaTita hoya. thAya che paNa vihAra cAlu rAkhavAthI pariSaho sahana thAya che. 6. utsarganA uddeza sAthe asaMgata hoya. kAyakleza tapathI karma ane kAyA kasAya che, gRhastho pratyenA rAgathI 7. paramaguru tIrthakara devane laghutA pamADanAro hoya. bacAya che, doSita gocarI, pApakathAthI bacI saMyama sacavAya che. jAya che. 8. mahApuruSoe nahIM paraMtu zudra jIvoe, guNahIna jIvoe badhA moTA lAbha che. enA badale e apavAda na sevatA sthiravAse Acarelo hoya te apavAda manakalpita che sAco apavAda nathI. e karavAmAM Ave to nadInA pANInI hiMsA na thAya te lAbha kharo. sevya nathI upAdeya nathI. paraMtu samajavuM joIe ke tethI sAme nukasAna ghaNA che. Ama gaurava- DaoN. chAyA zAha, 94, lAvaNya sosAyaTI, amadAvAda. lAghavano vicAra karavApUrvaka apavAda hoya. Te. 26612860. mo. 09998336992.
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________________ me, 2017 prabuddha jIvana upaniSadamAM paMcakoza vidhA| gha DaoN. nareza veda manuSyane potAnA vize ane pote je brahmAMDamAM jIvI rahyo che, A manomaya AtmA karatAM judo ane aMdara rahelo AtmA enA vize apAra kutUhala che. pote ane vizva, vyaSTi ane sRSTi, vijJAnamaya (buddhimaya) che. A vijJAnamaya AtmA vaDe ja manomaya zAnA banelAM che, emanI racanA kevI che, emanI vacce zo saMbaMdha AtmA bharelo che. manomaya AtmAnA manuSyAkAra pramANe eno che, e saMbaMdha kyA rUpano che, evI badhI bAbato samajAvavA mATe AtmA paNa manuSpAkAra che. zraddhA tenuM mAthuM che. zvata jamaNuM pAsuM upaniSadamAM je vidyA prastuta thayela che, e vidyAnuM nAma che, paMcakoza che, satya DAbuM pAsuM che, yoga AtmArUpa che, mahattattva pUMchaDIrUpa che vidyA. A vidyAnuM nirUpaNa vizeSarUpe taittirIya upaniSada'nI ane teno AdhAra che. vijJAna (buddhi) yajJanuM anuSThAna kare che ane brahmavallI nAmaka bIjI vallImAM pahelA pAMca anuvAkamAM thayeluM che. karmo paNa kare che. ApaNe pahelAM, upaniSadanI tatkAlIna rUpakAzrita bhASAmAM A vijJAnamaya AtmA karatAM judo ane enI aMdara rahelo AtmA A vidyAnuM nirUpaNa kevI rIte karavAmAM AvyuM che, te joIe. AnaMdamaya che. A AnaMdamaya AtmA vaDe ja vijJAnamaya AtmA brahma, satya, jJAna ane anaMtarUpa che. tene e rIte je jANe che te bharelo che. vijJAnamaya AtmAnA manuSyAkAra pramANe ja eno paNa brahmane jANe che ane parabrahmane pAme che. A parabrahma paramAtmA che. manuSya AkAra che. priya tenuM mAthuM che, moha tenuM jamaNuM pAsuM che, A parabrahmasvarUpa paramAtmAmAMthI AkAza utpanna thayuM, AkAzamAMthI pramoda tenuM DAbuM pAsuM che, AnaMda teno AtmA che, brahma tenI vAyu, vAyumAMthI agni, agnimAMthI jaLa, jaLamAMthI pRthvI, pUchaDIrUpa ane teno AdhAra che. pahelAM kahelAM vijJAnamaya zarIranI pRthvImAMthI auSadhio, auSadhiomAMthI anna ane annamAMthI puruSa aMdara rahelo A ja teno AtmA che. (jIvAtmA) utpanna thayela che. upaniSadakAranI rUpakAtmaka bhASAmAM kahevAyelI vAtano artha A puruSa (jIvAtmA) annanA rasathI ghaDAyo che. eTale ke A e che ke ApaNuM zarIra pAMcakozavALuM che, e che: (1) annamaya koza pRthvImAM je koI prANIo che te badhAM ja annamAMthI utpanna thayA che. (2) prANamaya koza (3) manomaya koza (4) vijJAnamaya koza ane vaLI, e anna vaDe ja jIve che ane chevaTe temAM ja lIna thAya che. (5) AnaMdamaya koza. pratyeka koza anya kozanA myAna ke kavacarUpa anna ja prANIomAM mukhya che. annamAMthI ja prANIo janme che. che. pratyeka kozamAM caitanya aMza che, paraMtu pUrNa ane sarvocca caitanya janmelA prANIo anna vaDe ja vRddhi pAme che. annanA rasathI ghaDAyela e pAMceya kozathI pachInI bhUmikAe che ane A pAMceyathI rasAyeluM puruSo (jIvAtmA)ne mAthuM che, eka jamaNuM pAsuM che, eka DAbuM pAsuM che. e caitanya (Spirit) jene ApaNe AtmA (Self athavA Conche, ane enA zarIrano je vacalo bhAga che te tenA zarIranA sciousness) kahIne oLakhIe chIe te ApaNuM AMtara sattva (inAtmArUpa che. tenI kammarano nIceno bhAga athavA tenA paga ner being) che. RSinuM kahevAnuM tAtparya e che ke ApaNA zarIranI pUchaDIrUpa che ane te tenA zarIrano AdhAra che. racanA ekanI aMdara eka ema vividha zaktistrotathI thayelI che. e annanA rasathI ghaDAyelA zarIrarUpa AtmA karatAM judo ane aMdara kAraNathI ja zarIrane RSioe "vasudhAna koza' (zaktione dhAraNa rahelo AtmA prANamaya che. A prANamaya AtmA vaDe ja annamaya karato koza) kahIne oLakhAvyuM che. AtmA bharelo che. e jIvAtmA paNa annamaya AtmAnA manuSyAkAra RSie pahelAM bhautika sRSTinuM phlevara samajAvatAM paMca mahAbhUto jevo ja manuSya AkAravALo che. prANa tenuM mAthuM che, vyAnavAyu tenuM (pRthvI, pANI, agni, vAyu ane AkAza)nI saMracanA ane temAMthI jamaNuM pAsuM che, apAnavAyu DAbuM pAsuM che, AkAza AtmArUpa che, pRthvImAMthI anya bhUtone sahAre pedA thayela vRkSa, vanaspati, pRthvI pUchaDIrUpa che e tenA zarIrano AdhAra che. devo, manuSyo ane auSadhio ane anna dvArA puruSa (jIvAtmA)no janma thato hovAnuM pazuo - e badhAM prANavaDe ja kriyA karavAne samartha bane che. prANa ja jaNAvyuM che. anna vaDe poSAyane mANasa athavA koIpaNa prANInA prANIonuM AyuSya che. annanA zarIramAM rahelo A prANa ja teno zarIranuM nirmANa thAya che. A zarIra jIvAtmA (caitanya)ne rahevAnuM AtmA che. eka sthAna che. A jIvanA (caitanyanA) sahAre ja anna dvArA raktaA prANamaya AtmA karatA judo ane aMdara rahelo AtmA rasa-mAMsa-meda vagerenA pUtaLArUpa A zarIranI vRddhi thAya che. manomaya che. A manomaya AtmA vaDe ja prANamaya AtmA bharelo eTale ke badhAnAM mULamAM to cetanAzakti ja che. aMtaHkaraNa rUpe che. prANamaya AtmAnA manuSyAkAra pramANe ja eno paNa manuSya oLakhAyelAM mana, buddhi, citta ane ahaMkAra e cAreya cetanAAkAra che. yajurmatro tenuM mAthuM che, RcAo tenuM jamaNuM pAsuM che, zaktinAM ja judAM judAM rUpo che. jema ke Indriyo sAthe gati karatI sAmamaMtro DAbuM pAsuM che, yajJakarmono Adeza ApanArA "brAhmaNa' cetanAzaktine mana kahevAmAM Ave che ane virATanI sAthe sUkSma nAmanA graMtho tenA AtmArUpa che, atharvA ane aMgirA RSio anubhava karanArI manomaya zaktine vijJAna (buddhi) kahevAmAM Ave vaDe jovAyelA maMtro tenI pUchaDIrUpa che, ane teno AdhAra che. pahelAM che. kahevAnuM tAtparya e che ke mana vyaSTi (amuka viSayo) tarapha ane kahelA prANamaya zarIranI aMdara rahelo A ja teno AtmA che. buddhi samaSTi (virATa) tarapha pravRtti karAve che.
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________________ 22 prabuddha jIvana me, 2017 RSionuM kahevuM che ke manuSya zarIra paMcakozI che. ApaNe karI zakAya, paraMtu tenI saMracanA thoDI jANavA samajavA maLI che. paMcakozI prANI chIe. ApaNuM zarIra annamaya, prANamaya, manomaya, samagra brahmAMDa nyuTrino (neutrino) nAmaka abajo kaNothI bhareluM vijJAnamaya ane AnaMdamaya ema pAMca thara (layers) vALuM che. eTale che ane e kaNo prakAzaveganI jhaDapathI samagra brahmAMDamAM ghUmI rahyA ke ApaNe eka zarIravALA nathI, paNa annathI banatAM sthaLa, prANa che. eTaluM ja nahi, samagra brahmAMDamAM comera mAikroveva taraMgorUpe ane manathI banatAM sUkSma, buddhi ane AnaMdathI banatAM kAraNa ane eka mahAzakti chavAyelI che. athAga mathAmaNo pachI vaijJAnikone caitanyathI banatAM mahAkAraNa - ema cAra zarIravALA chIe. manuSya samajAyuM ke apAra vaicitrya ane vaividhyathI bhareluM A brahmAMDa kevaLa zarIra dhULa, sUkSma kAraNa ane mahAkAraNa ema cAra jAtanAM 92 tattvonA aNuparamANuothI baneluM che ane pratyeka paramANu klevaravALuM che. RSino prayatna manuSya (prANI) zarIranI saMracanA IlekaTrona, proTona tathA nyUTrona nAmanA mULabhUta kaNono banelo che. samajAvavAno che. manuSya mAtra zarIra ane IndriyothI ja nahi, paNa ApaNe jemAM vasI rahyA chIe e pRthvI brahmAMDamAM rahelA aneka mana, buddhi, citta ane ahaMkAra tema ja AnaMdathI jIve che. tArAvizvo paikInI eka AkAzagaMgAmAM rahelo 6400 pRthvI, jaLa, agni, vAyu ane AkAza jevAM paMcatattvothI ApaNA kilomITaranI trijyA dharAvato eka moTo goLo che. A goLAnI dehano piMDa ghaDAyelo che. e ja rIte brahmAMDano piMDa paNa A AsapAsa Azare 200 kilomITara jeTalI pahoLAI dharAvato paMcatattvothI ja baMdhAyelo che. eTale to kahevAyuM che ke je piMDa che te vAtAvaraNano jADo thara che. nAITrojana, oNksijana, kArbana brahmAMDa che. ApaNA zarIra ane brahmAMDa vacce paMcamahAbhUtanI pratimA DAyoksAIDa jevA vAyuo A vAtAvaraNano mukhya bhAga che. jeTalI ja samAnatA che ke ethI vizeSapaNa che evo prazna koInA ApaNuM zarIra jema paMcakozI che, tema brahmAMDanuM zarIra paNa paNa manamAM UThe e svAbhAvika che. manuSya jema paMcakozI prANI che paMcakozI che. e pAMca kozanA pAMca tharo che : (1) Exosphere (2) tema zuM brahmAMDa paNa paMcakozI piMDa che? manuSyane eka nahIM paNa cAra Thermosphere (3) Mesophere (4) Stratosphere ane zarIro che, tema brahmAMDamAM paNa evuM jovA maLe che? manuSyanA zarIramAM (5) Troposphere. AmAMthI prathama thara 10 hajAra kilomITara rahelA tharanI mAphaka brahmAMDamAM paNa AvA tharo che? A praznonA jeTaluM dUra pRthvInI upara chavAyeluM che. bIjo thara 85 kilomITarathI uttaro pAmavA mATe ApaNe bhautika-vijJAna, khagoLa vijJAna ane 600 kilomITara dUra patharAyelo che. trIjo thara pRthvIthI dUra 50 brahmAMDa vijJAnamAM zI vicAraNA thaI che, te jovuM joIe. AvI kilomITarathI 85 kilomITara sudhI patharAyelo che. cotho thara 50 vicAraNA gaI sadImAM aneka vaijJAniko dvArA thayelI che. e badhAnI kilomITarathI mAMDI 20 kilomITara sudhI patharAyelo che ane pAMcamo vigate vAta karavAmAM ghaNo prastAra thAya. eTale kyA vijJAnIoe thara pRthvInI sauthI najIka 6 thI 12 kilomITara sudhI patharAyelo che. potAnA adhyayana-saMzodhana dvArA je samaja spaSTa karI che, temanAM vaijJAniko tenA uSNatAmAna, kemikala kampojhizana, gati ane nAmollekhathI ja ApaNuM kAma ApaNe calAvIzuM. nyUTana, Arthara ghanatAnuM adhyayana-saMzodhana karI rahyA che. eDigTana, AInsTAIna, elekjhAMDara phriDamena, aMDavina habala, manuSya zarIra eka nathI, jema cAra che, tema brahmAMDa paNa cAra jyorja gemova, jirAlDa TuphTa, viliyama harSala, panahAyamara, phlevaravALuM che. samasta brahmAMDamAM cAra prakAranAM baLo kAryarata hoya kIpa thorna, jahona preskila, kArla DeviDa enDarasana, paeNnjhIAta, che. e cAra baLo eTaleH (1) gurutvAkarSaNa baLa (2) vIja cuMbakIya nilsa bohara, skoDIMjha2, heInsabarga, hAnsa pITara Dyura, AphreDa baLa (3) nabaLA paramANu baLo ane (4) zaktimAna paramANu baLo. northa vhAITaheDa, vilsana, oNsTrIkara, pIbalsa, roja penerojha, henrI manuSya zarIramAM cAra zarIro je rIte kAryarata thatAM hoya che, e ja poMkAre, sTIphana hokiMga, gregarI perelamAna, verA rUbina, DaoN. rIte brahmAMDamAM A cAra baLo ati mahattvanAM kAryo kare che. jemake, subramaNya caMdrazekhara, DaoN. jayaMta nAralIkara, DaoN. paMkaja jozI, DaoN. gurutvAkarSaNanuM baLa kevaLa brahmAMDanA janmanuM kAraNa ja nathI, paraMtu je. je. rAvala vagere vaijJAnikoe brahmAMDa vize je khyAlo prastuta karyA AkAzagaMgA ane temanI gationA saMcAlananuM paNa kArya kare che. che, tene adhAre ApaNe brahmAMDanuM svarUpa ane tenI saMracanA vIja cuMbakIya baLa ane aNu ane paramANuone paraspara joDI samajavAno prayAsa karIe. rAkhavAnuM kArya kare che. jyAre paramANuomAM rahelAM nabaLA ane brahmAMDanI utpatti paMdara abaja varSo pahelAM eka mahAvisphoTane zaktizALI baLo paramANunA kendrIya ane parighanA baLane niyaMtrita kAraNe thaI hovI joIe. ApaNe AkAzamAM je tArAo joIe karavAnuM kAma kare che. sUrya ane enA jevA aneka tArAone pracaMDa chIe, tevA abajo tArAo dvArA ekAduM tArAvizva (geleksI) zakti ApanAra A baLo ja che. bane che. ApaNane je paricita che te tArAvizvamAM ja Azare 500 brahmAMDanA A pAMca kozo ane cAra zarIranAM svarUpa ane kAryanI abaja tArAo che. adyatana dUrabInothI vaijJAniko dvArA avalokana vadhu vigato prApta karavA ApaNI A sadImAM vijJAnanI judI judI thatAM khyAlamAM AvyuM che. AvA traNaso karoDa tArAvizvo dvArA brahmAMDa zAkhAo bhAre mathAmaNa karI rahI che. jema jema A rahasyo pragaTatA baneluM che. ane AvA to anaMta koTi brahmAMDo che. temanAM kada ane jaze tema tema vyakti sAthe samaSTino saMbaMdha kevo che, e vadhAre vajanane, temanI vizALatA ane bhavyatAno khyAla to haju nathI spaSTa thatuM jaze.
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________________ me, 2017 prabuddha jIvana 23 ATalI carcAthI e samajAze ke ApaNe brahmAMDano eka hisso Aditya, caMdra ane nakSatro-e pAMca devatArUpa pakta che. jaLa, chIe tema brahmAMDa paNa ApaNo eka hisso che. ApaNI jAtane auSadha, vanaspati, AkAza ane AtmA-e pAMca bhUtarUpa pAkata ApaNe samajavI haze to brahmAMDane ane brahmAMDane samajavuM haze to che. A traNeya pAMto Adhibhautika che. jyAre AdhyAtmika arthAt ApaNI jAtane samajavI paDaze. kAraNa ke ApaNo saMbaMdha sahodara zArIrika pAMkhto A pramANe che.: prANa, vyAna, apAna, udAna (Simbiotic) jevo che. jo baMnenuM sarjana pAMca bhUtomAMthI thayuM hoya, ane samAna-e pAMca prANarUpa pAMta che. AMkha, kAna, mana, vANI jo baMnene cAra cAra zarIro hoya ane baMnenA zarIramAM pAMca pAMca ane tvacA-e pAMca indriyarUpa pAMkta che. cAmaDI, mAMsa, majjA, tharo hoya to baMne vacce nALasaMbaMdha che, ema samajavuM ja joIe. snAyu ane hADakAM-e pAMca dhAturUpa pokta che. matalaba ke zuM A brahmAMDamAM pRthvI annamayakoza che, aMtarikSa prANamayakoza Adhibhautika ke zuM AdhyAtmika beu jagata pAktarUpa che. zarIranA che, caMdra manomayakoza che, sUrya vijJAnamayakoza che ane AkAza pAkta vaDe manuSya bahAranA (brahmAMDa)nA pAMkta jANe che. piMDamAM AnaMdamayakoza che. taittirIya upaniSadamAM vyaSTi ane samaSTinuM rUpa brahmAMDanI ane brahmAMDamAM piMDanI pragADha anubhUti karavI temAM ja ekasarakhuM che. e samajAvatAM RSie pAMca pAMkta (paMcaka)no khyAla ApaNo AtmasAkSAtkAra che. rajU karyo che. jema ke, pRthvI, aMtarikSa, ghuloka, dizAo ane avAntara kadaMba' baMgalo, 35, prophesarsa sosAyaTI, moTA bajAra, vallabha vidyAnagara, dizA (khUNA)o-e pAMca lokarUpa pokta che. agni, vAyu, (pina koDa: 388120) phona:02692 233750.mo. :09727333000 caturtha bAhatapa rasatyAga. |subodhIbena satIza masAlIA cothA naMbarano bAhyatapa rasatyAga eTale kyAreka khaTAza choDo, saMvedanazIlatA maMda paDI jAya che. paNa tethI svAda mANavAnI mananI kyAreka mIThAza choDo, kyAreka ghI choDo...paNa bhagavAne je arthamAM AkAMkSA naSTa thaI jatI nathI. paga bhAMgI javAthI cAlavAnuM mana rasatyAga zabda vAparyo che eno Avo sthULa artha nathI...bahAranI naSTa nathI thaI jatuM. eka DaoNkaTarane khAvA-pIvAnI khUba Asakti vastuo choDavAthI zarU karIzuM to e vastuo chUTaze paraMtu emAM je hatI. temane thayuM, 'dAMta che eTale jAtajAtanI vastu cAvIne teno rasa che te kAyama raheze. je vastune choDIzuM tenuM AkarSaNa vadhI jaze. Tesa levAnA nakharA sUjhe che. jo dAMta na hoya to narama khorAka vagara jenAthI ApaNe dUra bhAgIzuM, tenA mATe mana vadhAre satAvaze. manane svAda lIdhe peTamAM utarI jAya ne Asakti tUTI jAya." eTale emaNe dabAvIzuM...samajAvIzuM topaNa e mana mAgaNI karyA karaze. mahAvIre AkhI batrIsI kaDhAvI nAkhI. thoDA vakhata pachI khyAla Avyo ke je arthamAM rasatyAga zabda vAparyo che tene samajIe. "meM jalada upAya karyo to paNa huM niSphaLa gayo.' jarA samajo. rasanI pUrI prakriyA zuM che? rasa ke svAda vastumAM che ke ApaNI "vastuonA tyAgathI ke IndriyonA naSTa thavAthI rasa naSTa thato jI bhamAM? ke jIbhanI pAchaLa eno anubhava karanAra manamAM? ke nathI.' AMkha phoDI nAkhavAthI kAMI rUpa jovAnI AkAMkSA maTI nathI pachI mananI sAthe cetanAnuM je ekyapaNuM thaI gayuM che temAM? svAda javAnI. jIbhane iMjekzana ApIne saMvedanahIna banAvI devAthI svAda ane rasa zemAM che? jemAM rasa hoya tene choDavuM joIe. jeo sthaLa mANavAnI mananI icchA maTI nathI jatI. joI zake che te to kaheze ke svAda vastumAM che eTale e vastu choDo. to zuM manane mArI zakAya ? ghaNA loko manane mAravAmAM lAgelA paraMtu vastu to nimitta mAtra che. rasa ke svAda lenArI ApaNI iMdriya che. paNa manano niyama ulaTo che. je vAtathI ApaNe manane haTAvavA kAma nA karatI hoya to svAdano anubhava kevI rIte karazo ? mAgIe chIe te ja vAtamAM mana vadhAre rasa levA lAge che. eTale paNa vAta eTalethI aTakatI nathI. vAta eTalI ja hoya to jIbhane manane dabAvavAnI, samajAvavAnI, bhUlAvavAnI koIpaNa vyavasthA iMjekzana ApIne saMvedanahIna banAvI daIe to rasatyAga thaI jaze? rasa parityAga banI zakatI nathI. paraMtu jo mana ane cetanA vacceno vastu ane jIbha vacce saMbaMdha sthApita thatAM ja e rasa pharIthI pragaTa saMbaMdha tUTI jAya to ja rasatyAga thaI zake. kemake jo cetanAno sahayoga thaI jaze. je mANasa vastuo choDavAthI rasatyAga thaI jaze ema mAne che hoya to ja mana rasa laI zake che. koI mANasane phAMsI lAgavAnI te bhUla kare che. e rasane mAtra apragaTa kare che. tyAga karato nathI. bhagavAna teyArI che, pAMca miniTanI vAra che, te vakhate tene khUba ja bhAvatA rasane apragaTa karavAnuM nathI kahetA...tyAga karavAnuM kahe che. rasagullA lAvIne Apo to paNa tene svAda nahIM lAge. kAraNa ke ghaNIvAra ApaNAmAM amuka cIjo paristhitivaza paNa pragaTa thaI teno mana ane cetanA vacceno saMbaMdha tUTI rahyo che. rasatyAga mana zakatI nathI. game teTalI bhUkha lAgI hoya, paNa koI tamArI pAchaLa ane cetanA vaccenuM ekyapaNuM tUTavAthI thaze. je bAbatamAM cetanAno baMdUka laIne paDyuM hoya tyAre e bhUkha pragaTa nahIM thAya. paristhiti na sahayoga hoya temAM ja mana rasa laI zake che. hoya, avasara na hoya, nimitta na hoya tyAre rasa pragaTa thato nathI. eno mana ane cetanA vaccenuM ekyapaNe toDavA mATe mana prati artha e nathI ke rasa nAza pAmI gayo che, rasatyAga thaI gayo che. sAkSIbhAva pedA karo. bhojana levAI rahyuM che, svAda AvI rahyo che, lAMbI bImArI vakhate ke khUba tAva hoya tyAre jIbhanI aMdaramAM A AkhI prakriyA sAkSI banIne jotA raho. jANe ke svAda
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________________ 24 prabuddha jIvana me, 2017 lenAra alaga che ne tame alaga cho. je kAMi anubhava manane ane zAMta thaI jAya che, kAMIpaNa pharIthI karavAnI mana mAgaNI karatuM nathI. jIbhane thaI rahyA che, bhojananI vAnagI kevI prItikara lAgI rahI Ama ApaNe pote bahAranA padArthone ApaNI sAthe joDAtAM che, te badhI ghaTanAo pAchaLa UbhA rahI tame e badhuM sAkSI bhAve, aTakAvIe, ane manane e padArtho sAthe joDAIne rasa anubhava dRSTAbhAve jotA raho. karatI vakhate ApaNe alaga rahI zakIe to e rasaparityAga che. Avo sAkSIbhAva pragADha bane to acAnaka khyAla Avaze ke iMdriyo rasatyAga karavAno A eka ja rasto che. sAkSIbhAva, dRSTAbhAva. e ja che. vAnagIo paNa e ja che. mana paNa eja che. eTaluM ja bahArathI vastuo choDavAthI chUTI jaze paNa emAM rasa che te kAyama saMvedanazIla sajAga ane jIvaMta. paraMtu je rasanuM AkarSaNa hatuM, pharI raheze. paraMtu jo ApaNe ApaNI jAtane bahAranA padArtho joDe joDatAM pharI e rasa levAnI icchA thatI hatI te AkAMkSA ja nathI rahI. e aTakAvIe ane manane e padArtha sAthe joDAIne rasano anubhava rasaparityAga che. 'huM mana chuM, evuM tAdAtma jyAM sudhI rahe tyAM sudhI karatI vakhate ApaNe alaga rahI tenA sAkSI banI jaIe, dRSTA cetanA sAthe saMbaMdha rahe che. paraMtu e saMbaMdha tUTI jatAM badhA rasa banI jaIe to mana ane cetanA vaccenuM aikya rahe nahIM ne to ja chinnabhinna thaI jAya che. mANasa mana sAthe joDAI jAya che tyAre ene krodha "rasatyAga' thaI zake. Ave to lAge che "huM krodhI thaI gayo'; paNa jo rasa parityAga sAdhavo have A samajyA pachI tamane nathI lAgatuM ke vastuo choDavI hoya to jyAre krodha Ave tyAre kahevuM ke "mane krodha Avyo che te huM joI rahyo keTalI sahelI che ne "rasatyAga' karavo keTalo agharo che...je koIka chuM." ApaNe krodhane jonAra chIe. peTamAM bhUkha lAgI hoya tyAre ApaNe viralA ja karI zake...paNa prayatna to ApaNe badhA ja karI zakIe ne bhUkhyA nathI, paraMtu zarIrane bhUkha lAgI che tenA jANanAra chIe. e vakhate AyaMbila, ekAsaNA, besaNA jevA tapamAM jo rasatyAga ghaTita jo bhUkha sAthe tAdAtma na baMdhAya ane sAkSI hovAno bodha pragaTa thaI thaI jAya to keTalAya karmonI nirjarA thaI jAya evuM nathI lAgatuM? jAya, to e rasatyAga bane che. dhIre dhIre e samajAze ke pahelAM karatAM bIjuM tapa agharuM, bIjA karatAM tame kahezo ke, "jIbha kahe che ke bhojana svAdiSTa che paNa huM trIjuM ne trIjA karatAM cothuM rasatyAga" tapa agharuM che. svAdathI alaga chuM. rasa anubhava vacce huM sAkSI chuM. ekavAra A rIte "dharamano mAraga che zUrAno...nahIM kAyaranuM kAma jo ne, dRSTA sAtheno saMbaMdha baMdhAI jAya to mana sAtheno saMbaMdha zithila mAMhI paDyA te mahAsukha mANe, dekhanahArA dAjhe jone.... ** thaI jAya. tyAre ApaNane khyAla Avaze ke badhA rasa zAMta thaI 19, dharmapratApa, azoka roDa, dAmodaravADI, kAMdivalI (IsTa), gayA. rasatyAga thaI gayo. rasa khovAI jAya tyAre iMdriyo ApoApa muMbaI-400 101. mobAIla: 9892163609. kSaNabhaMgura jnaTavarabhAI desAI A zabda ApaNe sau anekavAra sAMbhaLI cUkyA chIe. saMtonAM anubhava karatAM rahIe chIe. kSaNabhaMgura zabda ghaNo garbhita che ane mukhethI ane vyavahArika saMvAdomAM A zabdano upayoga avAranavAra e zabda jo yogya rIte samajAya ane eno sAco artha AtmasAt thato hoya che. samagra brahmAMDanI racanA pAMca mULabhUta tattvo : pRthvI, thAya to mANasanA jIvanamAM parivartana AvI zake che. A AkhA AkAza, vAyu, teja ane jaLathI thayelI che ane tene utpanna karavAvALuM dRzya saMsAramAM koI cIja kAyamI nathI, cAhe te vastu hoya, paristhiti ane calAvavAvALuM je tattva che tene samajavAno ane pAmavAno hoya, saMjoga hoya, vicAra hoya ke mAnyatA hoya- te badhuM ja harapaLe anAdikALathI prayatna thato rahyo che. AtmA-paramAtmA, jIva-ziva badalAtuM rahe che. koI cIja kAyama nathI. samayane koI rokI zakatuM ane vaita-advaita A bAbato atyaMta gUDha ane gahana che. mAyAnA nathI ane kALane koI aTAkavI zakatuM nathI ane te koI agamya paDadAne kAraNe manuSya Izvarane jANI athavA pAmI zakato nathI. zaktinA hAthamAM che jene kAraNe A maryAdAo ApaNe svIkAravI coryAsI lAkha yonimAM manuSya yoni sauthI zreSTha gaNAya che, kAraNa ja paDe. samudramAM je lahero UThe te kSaNavAramAM naSTa thAya ane tyArabAda ke tene mana, buddhi ane prajJA ApavAmAM AvI che. jene kAraNe te bIjI lahera utpanna thAya ane te kSaNavAramAM naSTa thAya. A kudaratano tenI vivekabuddhithI zuM sAruM ane zuM kharAba te jANI zake che. ApaNe niyama che ane jIvananI dareka kSaNa paNa kSaNabhaMgura che jene kAraNe kyAMthI AvyA ane kyAM javAnA te ApaNe jANatA nathI, paraMtu koIpaNa samajadAra vyakti A vAta jANyA pachI je koIpaNa kSaNa janmathI mRtyu sudhInI je yAtrA che te yAtrA daramyAna je kAMI anubhava Ave tenA yathArtha upayoga karI le to kadAca dhAreluM prApta karI zake. thAya ane jJAna maLe tene AdhAre mANasa potAnuM jIvana vyatIta kSaNabhaMgura zabda jIvananAM dareka kSetramAM anubhavI zakAya. dA. ta. karato hoya che. jIbhano je svAda che te kAyama TakI na rahe. managamato svAda kAyama ApaNe badhA jANIe chIe ke manuSyano deha kSaNabhaMgura che. TakI rahe tevI ApaNI marajI hoya chatAM paNa te Takato nathI e lagabhaga dararoja ApaNI najara sAme ApaNe dehanI kSaNabhaMguratAno
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________________ me, 2017 prabuddha jIvana 25 ApaNe jANIe chIe. managamato dhvani paNa kAyama Takato nathI. vAstavikatA je kAMI che te sahajabhAve svIkArI laI ApaNA AMtarika kadAca evuM bane ke ApaNane managamato svAda athavA dhvanino je pravAho je che tene koIpaNa prakAranuM parivartana ApyA sivAya AnaMda che te kSaNikano badale zAzvata thAya to eno keTalo AnaMda mAnasika rIte sthiratA keLavI kAyama nijAnaMdamAM masta rahevuM eTaluM thAya enI ApaNe kalpanA karI zakIe chIe-eTale evo koIka jo samajAya ane jIvanamAM UtArIe to kSaNabhaMgurutAnuM sukha-duHkha mArga hoya ke je AvI vAtone zAzvata kare ane teno AnaMda kAyama kAMI thAya nahIM. kSaNabhaMgura zabda ApaNane zuM sUcave che te sAcI TakI rahe to te mArga mATe dareka manuSyanI AMtarika icchA hoya che. rIte samajI ane dareka kSaNa je Ave che te javAnI che ane tevI ja kSaNabhaMguratAne zAzvatatAmAM pheravavI hoya to tene mATe sAcI bIjI kSaNa AvavAnI nathI eTale AvelI kSaNane yathArtha rIte jIvI samajaNanI khUba jarUrI che. koI vastu kAyamI nathI. du:kha hoya ke laIe te ja jIvananI sAcI dizAmAM ApaNane laI jAya che. Izvara sukha hoya, zoka hoya ke AnaMda hoya, krodha hoya ke prema hoya. A ApaNane saune A samajaNa Ape ane ApaNuM jIvana sArthaka thAya dareka bhAva kSaNika hoya che eTale temAM khUba AnaMdita thavuM ke nirAza tevI prabhu prArthanA. thavuM bilakula jarUrI nathI. A bAbatamAM ApaNe ApaNI jAtane * * * taTastha rAkhI sAkSIbhAvathI jovAnI dRSTi keLavavAnI che. jIvananI mobAIla : 9321421192 gAMdhIvAcanayAtrA gAMdhIjI : saMkSipta paricaya - adabhuta pustakano adabhuta anuvAda | sonala parIkha mahAtmA gAMdhInA janmane doDhaso varSa pUrA thavAnI taiyArI che nAma che "gAMdhIjI : saMkSipta paricaya'. A pustaka, prA. bhIkhu ane temanA mRtyune paNa dAyakAo vItyA che. A daramyAna temaNe pArekhanA 'gAMdhI - a verI zaoNrTa inTroDakzana' e adbhuta pustakano pote ghaNuM lakhyuM ane temanA vize paNa ghaNuM badhuM lakhAyuM. paNa zuM prA. hasamukha paMDyAe karelo khUba suMdara anuvAda che. AmAMnuM koi pustaka ke koI vyakti temane pUrA arthamAM samajavA ke mahAtmA gAMdhIe eka sAthe rAjakIya, sAmAjika, AdhyAtmika, varNavavAno dAvo karI zake tema che? nahIM. kema ke mahAtmA gAMdhInI dhArmika, naitika ane sAMskRtika morace satata kArya karyuM hatuM, potAnI pratibhA satata parivartanazIla, satata vikasatI ane aneka vicAra-pratibaddhatAthI. A tamAma kSetramAM teo jhajhUmyA hatA ane virodhAbhAsothI bharelI hatI. dareke potAnI buddhimattA, valaNa ane AkhI mAnavajAta para cirasthAyI prabhAva pADyo hato. bhAratamAM ke grahaNazakti pramANe mahAtmA gAMdhIne pichANyA, pramANyA ane bhArata bahAra A kakSAnI pratibhA maLavI durlabha che. AvA vyaktitva varNavyA. A yAtrA satata cAlu che ane bahu jaladI teno aMta Ave ane netRtvanI vizvadRSTie samaja ApavI ane e paNa mAtra doDhaso tema lAgatuM nathI. jeTalAM pAnAmAM e saheluM kAma nathI. bahu kaThina parizrama ane virATa gAMdhIskaoNlaromAM eka juduM tarI Ave tevuM nAma che laoNrDa bhIkhu boddhikatA joIe. pArekha. briTiza sarakAra dvArA "laoNrDa' ane bhArata sarakAra dvArA A nAnA pustakamAM pahelA prakaraNamAM mahAtmA gAMdhInA jIvana 'padmavibhUSaNa' sanmAnaprApta, aneka pada-aneka padavIo, ane kAryanI rUparekhA dorI ApIne pachI lekhake naitika ane jAhera poliTikala philosophI- sozyala thiyarI-philosophI oNpha ethanika jIvanamAM gAMdhIjInA pradAna ane bhUmikAnI mUlavaNI karI che. tyAra rilezansa jevA viSayo para aneka pustako, laMDana skUla opha pachI temanuM dharma, mAnavaprakRti ane satyAgraha vizenuM ciMtana, temanI ikaoNnomiksamAMthI 'ikviliTI' para mahAnibaMdha, paMdara jeTalI videzI AdhunikatAnI samIkSA ane ahiMsaka samAjanI kalpanA aMgenA yunivarsiTIe ApelAM DaoNkTareTa ane atyAre hala ane vaeNsTaminsTa2 prakaraNo che ane aMte vIseka pAnAmAM temanuM vivecanAtmaka mUlyAMkana che. yunivarsiTIomAM ImeriTsa prophesara tarIke kAryarata vyakti jyAre mahAtmA gAMdhInA TIkAkAro kahe che ke temanI khAmIvALI mahAtmA gAMdhI para pustaka lakhe tyAre te kevuM bane? ane A pustakano yUharacanAne lIdhe rASTrIya punarutthAnamAM vino AvyAM. dalita ane anuvAda hasamukha paMDyA jevA rAjyazAstranA AjIvana abhyAsI, muslimo aMgenA temanA vicAro barAbara na hatA, temanA rUDhicusta prAdhyApaka, saMzodhaka, anuvAdaka ane vidyAvyAsaMgI zikSaNazAstrI ane nIticusta ciMtane uddAmavAdI rAjakIya AMdolanonA vegane ruMdhyo, kare tyAre te kevo thAya? Aje jenI vAta karavAnA chIe e pustakanuM bhAratanA vibhAjanane zakya banAvyuM ane svataMtra bhAratane jenI jarUra
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________________ prabuddha jIvana me, 2017 hatI tevA rAjakIya pakSone vyaktinI cetanA kevI hoI zake te gAMdhIjInA A vidhAnathI sAdhatA javuM, TUMkamAM kahIe to vikasAvavAmAM teo niSphaLa gayA. samajAya che - bhAratano rAjakIya ane sAMskRtika to temanA prazaMsako kahe che ke "cAre bAjuthI baMdhiyAra ane baMdha bArIovALuM ghara mATe joItuM itihAsa racavo - A badhuM paNa gAMdhIjI eka ciMtaka ane karmayogI nathI. mAre to tamAma dezonI saMskRtinA pavana muktapaNe vahI karatA gayA hatA. Ama chatAM hatA, satyAgraha jevI rAjakIya Ave tevuM mokaLuM ghara joIe che. paNa huM pote koI paNa saMskRtinA temane hiMdu-muslima saMbaMdho, parivartana mATe ananya tevI paddhati, pavanathI phaMgoLAI javAno InakAra karuM chuM.' akhaMDa rASTra ane zodhI, itihAsanA sauthI moTA sAdagI-sevAnA siddhAMtomAM sAmrAjyavAda virodhI AMdolanane saphaLa netRtva pUruM pADyuM, mAnavIya mAnatA rAjakAraNa saMbaMdhe niSphaLatA maLI hatI. temanA para humalAo svadezAbhimAnane protsAhita karyuM ane naitika rIte javAbadAra netRtvanuM thayA hatA ane aMte temanI hatyA thaI hatI. bhAgye ja jovA maLatuM dRSTAMta pUruM pADyuM. TIkAkAro anusAra gAMdhIjIne samajavA eTale temanI TIkA karavI ke temanI prazaMsA gAMdhIjIne lIdhe bhAratanA rAjakIya jIvanane bhAre nukasAna thayuM che karavI ke temanI pUjA karavI e badhAthI kaMika vizeSa che. gAMdhIjIne to prazaMsako anusAra gAMdhIjI isukhrista ane gautama buddhathI kama samajavA hoya to eka dRSTikoNa keLavavo paDe. A pustakanA dareka nathI. pAnA para ApaNane ApaNA yugamAM thaI gayelA A adbhuta lekhaka kahe che ke baMne pakSa keTalAka pramANabhUta muddAo rajU kare che, rASTrapuruSane samajavAno yogya evo dRSTikoNa maLe che - potAnA chatAM baMne pakSe kareluM gAdhIjInuM mUlyAMkana chIcharuM che. gAMdhIjI AtmAne ghaDavA mATe temaNe karelA athAga parizramane jovAnuM pariprekSya sarjanAtmaka ciMtana, rAjakIya netA, sAmAjika sudhAraka ane khUba ja maLe che. A pustaka gAMdhIjIne eka adbhuta vicAraka tarIke jue che. dhArmika vyakti hatA. A dareka bhUmikAmAM teo sAmarthya ane nabaLAI gAMdhIjI vize lUI phizara, rAjamohana gAMdhI ke nArAyaNa desAinAM dharAvatA hatA. ApaNane samajAya che te karatA ghaNA UMDA stare temaNe pustako na vAMcyA hoya tene mATe A pustaka gAgaramAM sAgaranI kArya karyuM hatuM. potAnI A vAtanA samarthanamAM teo kahe che ke gAMdhIjI garaja sAre tevuM che. potAnA jIvana dvArA ja potAnA vize mata baMdhAya tema IcchatA AvuM A pustaka gujarAtI bhASAmAM upalabdha thAya e hetuthI hatA. temanuM jIvana bhAgye ja jovA maLe tevuM vikAsapUrNa, gauravayukta prA. hasamukha paMDyAe tenA anuvAdanuM kArya hAthamAM laI cIvaTa ane ane bhavya hatuM. temanA karatA vadhAre sArA saMto, sudhArako, saMzodhako sakSamatAthI pAra pADyuM che. gAMdhIjI anuvAdane agharI kaLA kahetA. ne rAjapuruSo nathI ema nahIM, paNa jemAM A tamAmano samAveza paNa teo jo A pustaka jota to AvakAra ane AzIrvAda Apata thAya tevI vyakti maLavI muzkela che. jIvananA prathama trIsa varSa teo evI rIte kArya thayuM che. prA. hasamukha paMDyAnA rAjyazAstra paranAM sAmAjika paraMparAone anusaryA. tyAra pachI temanA jIvanamAM gaMbhIra pustako kolejomAM bhaNAvAya che ane aneka AvRttio thAya che. parivartana AvyuM. aMte teo tIvrapaNe mukti tarapha gayA. temanA mATe emaNe keTalAka aMgrejI pustakonA suMdara anuvAda paNa karyA che. muktinA traNa artha thatA hatA. indriyo para pUrNa prabhutva, adhama dharma vize gAMdhIjI kahe che ke "vyakti zuM mAne che te sAthe nahIM, bhAvanAothI rahita zuddha mana ane vizvaprema-sevAmAM Atmavilopana. paNa te kevuM jIvana jIvI ane kevI zraddhA sAthe jIvI tenI sAthe dharma A traNene temaNe ekabIjA sAthe saMkaLAyelA joyA hatA. temane mana saMkaLAyelo che.' vyaktinI cetanA kevI hoI zake te temanA A paripUrNatAnI zodha vyaktie potAnI aMdara ane vizvamAM cAlatA vidhAnathI samajAya che - "cAre bAjuthI baMdhiyAra ane baMdha anyAya ane aniSTonI vacce saMgharSa karatA rahIne karavAnI che. bArIovALuM ghara mAre joItuM nathI. mAre to tamAma dezonI saMskRtinA dakSiNa AphrikAmAM raMgabhedanI viruddha, bhAratamAM briTiza zAsananI pavana muktapaNe vahI Ave tevuM mokaLuM ghara joIe che. paNa huM pote viruddha ane potAnA samAjamAM sAmAjika anyAyonI viruddha AMdolano koI paNa saMskRtinA pavanathI phaMgoLAI javAno InakAra karuM chuM.' karatA gAMdhIjIe manuSya tarIke zuddha ane pAradarzaka banavAnI mathAmaNa gujarAtanI navI peDhI A pustaka vAMcaze to temanA manamAM satata cAlu rAkhI hatI, e mArge AvatAM saMgharSa ane hatAzAno gAMdhIjInA vyaktitva ane temanA vicAro aMge je dhUMdhaLI avyavasthA sAmano karyo hato ane svAda, gusso, adekhAi, abhimAna, svArtha, rahI che te dUra thaze te ni:zaMka che. * * * mAlikIpaNuM, Asakti, kAyaratA, mahattvAkAMkSA para vijaya meLavatA (gAMdhIjI : eka saMkSipta paricaya prA. bhIkhu pArekha, anuvAda : prA. gayA hatA. sAthe prajAne AMdolanomAM sAmela karavA mATe keLavavI, hasamukha paMDyA, prakAzaka: gUrjara graMtharatna kAryAlaya, ratanapoLanAkA nANAbhaMDoLa UbhAM karavAM, rASTravyApI "neTavarka' racavuM, satyAgraha sAme, gAMdhI mArga, amadAvAda 380001. ane racanAtmaka kAryane mahattva ApavuM, vyaktigata-sAmudAyika vikAsa phona : 079 - 22144663. pRSTha 154, mUlya rUA. 150 )
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________________ me, 2017 prabuddha jIvana 27 'jaina paraMparAnA punaradhArako-3 paMDita haragoviMdadAsa zeTha : prAkRtabhASAnA amara zabdakoSakAra 'T AcAryazrI vAtsalyadIpasUrIzvarajI jaina dharmane vizvamAM sau sudhI pahoMcADavo hoya to vidvAno taiyAra eTaluM ja nahi e zabda kyAMthI lIdho che te graMthanuM nAma, je karavA joIe tevI bhAvanAthI AcAryazrI dharmasUrijI mahArAja vibhAgamAMthI lIdho te vibhAganuM nAma, je gAthAmAMthI lIdho hoya kAzImAM pAThazALA kholIne beThA. ratna jevA tejasvI vidyArthIo te gAthAno krama vagere paNa umeryA. vaLI keTalAMya graMtho evA hatA ke bhegA karIne temaNe khUba bhaNAvyA. temAM paMDita sukhalAlajI, paMDita te samaye haju pragaTa paNa thayA na hatA. mAtra mULa hastaprata ja hatI. becaradAsajI ane paMDita haragoviMdadAsajI paNa hatA. temAMthI meLavI meLavIne temaNe zabdakoSa taiyAra karyo. akArAdI krame paMDita haragoviMdadAsa zeTha mULa rAdhanapuranA. temanA be bhAIo goThavyo. zrI dharmasUrijI mahArAja pAse dIkSA laIne munizrI jayaMtavijayajI A ati zramasAdhya kArya hatuM. paMDitajI karatA to gayA paNa ane munizrI vizALavijayajInA nAme vikhyAta thayA. A baMne tyAre paisAnI agavaDa naDI. te paNa vidyApremIone maLIne temaNe munio paNa uttama lekhaka hatA. paMDita haragoviMdadAsanI khyAti khaDI karI ane A rIte prAkRtabhASAno e yazasvI ane saMpUrNa graMtha paNa comera prasarI. zrI dharmasUrijI mahArAje paMDita becaradAsa ane cAra bhAgamAM taiyAra karIne pragaTa karyo. te samayanA vidvAno ane paMDita haragoviMdadAsane pAli bhASA zIkhavA mATe kolaMbo mokalyA! abhyAsIo moMmAM AMgaLA nAkhI gayA. A baMne paMDito pAli bhASA uparAMta bauddha paraMparAnI tripiTika paMDita haragoviMdadAsa zeTha temanA samayamAM apAra lokacAhanA bhASA paNa zIkhIne AvyA! pAmyA. AjanA samayanA jaino temane bhUlI gayA che. paraMtu A paMDita becaradAsajIe yazovijayajI jaina graMthamALA' zarU karI vidvAnonI peDhIe je kArya karyuM che e AvanArA saikAo sudhI jenavidyA tyAre temaNe paMDita haragoviMdadAsane bhegA rAkhyA. baMne paMDitoe kSetrane amara banAve tevuM che. jaina nyAya ane vyAkaraNane lagatA aneka prAcIna graMtho saMpAdita paMDita haragoviMdadAsa jIvananA chellA divasomAM bimAra paDyA. karIne pragaTa karyA. banyuM evuM ke A baMne paMDita "tIrtha'nI parIkSA te samaye potAnuM mRtyu najIka che tevuM samajI gayA. muMbaImAM pAyadhunI ApavA mATe kaoNlejamAM gayA tyAre te ja graMtho temane bhaNavAnA vistAramAM teo goDIjInI cAlamAM rahetA hatA. temanA kahevAthI AvyA ! parivAranA sabhyo munizrI caMdrasAgarajI mahArAjane aMtima samaye paMDita haragoviMdadAsa potAnA pratyeka kAryamAM khUba parizrama darzana ApavA mATe teDI lAvyA. muni mahArAjanA caraNamAM mastaka karatA. temane lAgyuM ke prAkRtabhASAno zabdakoSa taiyAra karavo joIe. namAvIne paMDitajI bolyA, 'gurudeva, jIvanamAM aneka prasaMgo AvyA te samaye graMtho meLavavA paNa durlabha hatA. tyAre Avo vicAra karavo ane gayA. meM paNa aneka bhUlo karI haze. paMDita tarIke abhimAna ane amalamAM mUkavo ghaNuM kaThina hatuM. zabdakoSa taiyAra karavAmAM paNa sevyuM haze. dharma samajyA pachI paNa huM dharmanI ArAdhanA karavAmAM aneka vidvAnono paNa sahayoga joIe. te samaye eTalA vidvAno cUkyo hoIza. e tamAma vAtanI huM ApanI sAkSImAM Aje kSamA hatA ja kyAM? mAguM chuM. mArA pApothI mane mukti maLe ane mArA AtmAnuM zreya paMDita haragoviMdadAse 'ekalo jAne re' ukti sArthaka karatA hoya thAya tevA AzIrvAda Apo ane mane nirdhAmaNA karAvo." tema prAkRtabhASAno zabdakoSa teyAra karavA mATe ekalA ja maMDI muni mahArAje temane aMtima samayanA paccakhANa ApyA. paDayA. prAkRtabhASAnA graMtho | paMDita haragoviMdadAse dharmanuM vAMcavA zabdo noMdhavA tenuM liMga me paNa aneka bhUlo karI haze. paMDita tarIke abhimAna paNa sevyuM haze. zaraNa laIne deha choDyo noMdhavuM, hindImAM teno artha dharma samajyA pachI paNa huM dharmanI ArAdhanA karavAmAM cUkyo hoIza. e nazvara dehano tyAga karI gayelA besADavo vagere kAryo paMDitajIe tamAma vAtanI huM ApanI sAkSImAM Aje kSamA mAguM chuM. mArA pApothI paMDita haragoviMdadAsa temanI akhUTa zrama laIne karavA mADacA. mane mukti maLe ane mArA AtmAnuM zreya thAya tevA AzIrvAda Apa jJAnasAdhanAthI vidyApremIonA rAta-divasa joyA vinA A kArya ane mane nirdhAmaNA karAvo.' smaraNamAM vasyA che. akhaMDa paNe temaNe karavA mAMDyuM. * * *
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________________ 28 prabuddha jIvana me, 2017 bhAva-pratibhAva 'prabuddha jIvanano mArca, 17no vizeSAMka kharA arthamAM adbhuta varSa pUrAM karo tevI abhilASA che. tame eka pachI eka vidvatAbharyA banyo che, ane dhyAna, rasathI vAMce tene vAMcavAmAM ja mahinA jevo aMko, navA viSayovALA Apo cho. tamArA taMtrI lekho vAMcIne samaya nIkaLI jAya tema che. te uparathI, tene taiyAra karavAmAM Apa vicAra karatA karI mUke tevA hoya che. tamArA aMko saMgraha karavA sahune keTalo zrama, takedArI lagAvavA paDyA haze, teno aMdAja yogya hoya che. AvI jAya tema che. 1 ke. sI. zAha lekho ekeeka sarasa che ane temAMnA amuka lekhakano huM sIdho : : : : : : saMparka karavA dhAruM chuM; paraMtu sonalabahena parIkhano lekha, je svayaM khUba taMtrIpadathI saMtoSa thayo che. dhanavaMtabhAInI ja StylemAM TUMkamAM sarasa che. temAMnI eka nAnI bAbata tarapha dhyAna doravA mAguM chuM. ghaNuM badhuM kahI devAnI AgavI zakti che. lekhanA prathama vAkyamAM teozrI je lakhe che teno artha meM vizeSAMka-zrImad uparano to jANe Text Book ja joI lyo. zarUAtamAM evo lIdho ke paryuSaNa vyAkhyAnamALAmAM 1985mAM vividhatA lAvI zakyA cho. vAtanI rajUAta to the Point hoya zarU thaI; paraMtu tyAM ja yAda AvyuM ke 1985mAM muMbaInI siDanahAma kaoNlejanA InTa2 komarsanA varganA amArA gujarAtI viSayanA te mRtyunI nIMdara mahAsukha Ape che adhyApaka zrI muralI ThAkure eka zanivAre, temanA varganA aMtabhAgamAM AjathI lagabhaga 2500 varSa pahelAM yuripiDisa nAmanA eka amane kaheluM ke 'bhAratIya vidyA bhavanamAM hamaNAM paryuSaNa grIka philasUphe A vidhAna karyuM che. vyAkhyAnamALA cAle che. temAM, ApaNe je adbhuta navalakathA "jhera vicAra karatAM kare evI A vAta che ! to pIdhA che jANI jANI'no rasAsvAda mANI rahyA chIe tenA lekhaka zrI darzaka (zrI manubhAI paMcolI)nuM AvatI kAle vyAkhyAna che. tame amerikanonA mAnItA presiDenTa 'TeDI' rUjhavelTa maraNa je koI samaya kADhI zako te tyAM samayasara pahoMcI jaI temane zAMtithI | pathArIe hatA tyAre rAtre rAhata lAgatA bolyA: 'jemsa ! have sAMbhaLajo ane madhyAMtaramAM sTeja upara jaI mArAvatI greetings | dIvAbattI baMdha karI de.' ane yamarAje temane vahelI paroDhe UMghamAM Apajo, maLajo.' e Akho prasaMga khUba ja rasaprada hoI, Aje ja jhaDapyA! vAIsa presiDanTe e sAMbhaLIne kahyuM ke, "...nahIM to pa9 varSe paNa mane jevone tevo yAda che; paraMtu vistAra bhaye enI yamarAja ane 'TeDI' vacce jAmI gaI hota !' vAta karavAne badale, eTaluM ja kahevA IcchuM chuM ke paryuSaNa | bhagavAna gautama buddha paNa yuripiDisanA arasAmAM thaI gayA. vyAkhyAnamALA, 1985 pahelAM zarU thaI cUkI hatI; jo ke tenA | rAjakuMvara hatA, tyAre emanI co-tarapha sukha ane samRddhi sivAya sthaLa, judA judA kAraNe 2-3 vAra badalavA paDelA kharA! | kAMI ja na'tuM tyAre emaNe evA cAra dRzyo joyAM ke saMsAramAMthI Ama, na kevaLa 'prabuddha jIvana'nA aMko uttarottara vadhu ne vadhu | rasa UDI gayo ! saMsAranI asAratA samajI gayA. muktinI rasaprada thatA jAya che; A aMkamAMnI jAherAta mujaba "jo hoya mAro | khojamAM saMsATI maTI sAdhu thayA. zarIra ogALe evA tapa karyA. A aMtima patra to...' jevI zreNI umerAtA temAM cAra cAMda lAgI | (tapanI nirarthakatA paNa jANI) chevaTe emane bodhijJAna prApta ja jaze. thayuM. chatAM ye saMsAramAM du :kha nivAraNa to na ja thayuM! asAra | azoka na. zAha saMsAranI pakaDamAMthI koI chaTakI zakyuM nathI. manuSya ekalo rahIne C/o. akSaya enTaraprAIjha, 4,meTro komarzIyala senTara, | ke kuTuMba-parivAramAM rahIne sukha-cenathI rahI zakato nathI. paiso Azrama roDa, amadAvAda-80009. meLavavA AkhI jiMdagI kharcI nAkhe che paNa sukha maLatuM nathI. Teliphona: 079 4800 9867. paisAno tyAga kIrane paNa sukha maLyAnuM jANyuM nathI! mithyAjagatamAM "khAdhu-pIdhuM' ne rAja karyuM evo ekAda namUno jJAnagogI zrImad rAjacaMdrajI vizeSAMkamAM pA. 88 upara 'kavi hota to mAnavajAtano itihAsa anero hota ! eTale ja 2500 paricaya' zIrSaka heThaLa lakhyuM che ke " zrI yazovijayajI mahArAja |varSa pachI paNa yuripiDisanI vAta nakkara ja rahe che ! mRtyunI nIdara, vikramanI 10mI zatAbdImAM thaI gayA. manuSyane mahAsukha Ape che. A mudraNadoSa lAge che. tene sudhArI levA vinaMti. Drameza bApAlAla zAha tame eka varSa taMtrI tarIke pUruM karyuM tene mATe abhinaMdana. aneka
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________________ me, 2017 prabuddha jIvana 29. che. bhAva-pratibhAva vibhAgamAM vividha vAMcakonA patro rajU karIne 'prabuddha jIvanano aMka pU. zrI jJAnayogI zrImad rAjacaMdrajI sArI chApa ubhI karI che. prabuddha jIvana'no vAMcakagaNa lagIre ocho vizeSAMka Oscar Winning' aMkamAM dareka vidvAna saMpAdakonA 'Atma thaze nahIM, babbe samaya jatAM vadhaze ema cokkasapaNe lAge che. hRdayanI lAgaNI'no "anubhava" thayela che. Wishing you best of Luck. | DaoN. kizora dozI [ rajanIkAMta cI. gAMdhI * * * jJAna-saMvAda savAla pUchanAra : aruNA bipIna zAha bAMdhe che. manano hukama thAya pachI ja zarIra cAle che. pachI ja vANI savAla : 1. maunanI zakti zuM che? nIkaLe che. mauna vagara karmanI nirjarA zakya nathI. tIrthakaroe paNa maunane jaina dharma sAthe kaI rIte joDI zakAya? dIkSA pachI kevaLajJAna mATe maunanI sAdhanA karI hatI. monanuM khUba savAla : 2. ghaNI vAra evuM thAya ke bolavAthI mana haLavuM thAya ja mahattva che. mauna nahIM rAkho to halanacalana thaze. karmano Azraya to pachI mona kaI rIte upayogI bane? thaze to nirjarA kaI rIte thaze. mauna sAthe ekAMta jarUrI che? javAba-2 javAba ApanAra vidvAna subodhIbena satIza masAlIA bolavAthI mana haLavuM paNa thAya. jhagaDo paNa thAya. e je paNa che te TempararI bAbata che. jarUrI nathI ke dara vakhate mana haLavuM ja javAba : 1 thAya. Aje eka vakhata bolavAthI mana haLavuM thayuM to bIjI vAra ApaNe jIvanamAM je kAMI karavuM che te AtmAnI mukti mATe karavuM che bolavAthI mana bhAre thAya che. A vastuno AdhyAtmika vastu sAthe che. saMsAramAM sukhaduHkhanA cakrathI je kaMTALo Avyo hoya, nirveda koI saMbaMdha nathI. mananuM haLavuM thavuM ane bhAre thavuM TempararI bAbata saMvega jAgyo hoya, to have je kaMI karavuM che te saMsArathI mukti mATe che. ApaNe to e sukhanI zodhamAM chIe je kAyamI che ane AvIne karavuM che. mokSa mATe karavuM che. karmathI mukta thavA mATe pahelAM e pAchuM jatuM nathI. to e sukha meLavavA mATe, ApaNA karmanA DhagalA vicAravuM paDe ke karma AtmAmAM Ave che kaI rIte, karma baMdhAya che kaI ochA karavA mATe AMtarika zakti vadhAravI paDaze. e mATe enarjI rIte? mana, vacana ane kAyAthI karma baMdhAya che. e sivAya bIjuM joIze. jo enarjI bolavAmAM veDaphAI jaze to bhegI nahIM thAya to koI karma bAMdhatuM nathI. Indriyo paNa karma nathI bAMdhatI, je che te sAdhanA kaI rIte karazo? vadhAre anubhava to sAdhanA karyA pachI ja mana, vacana ane kAyAne kAraNe che. AmAMthI koI ekanuM halanacalana thaze ke maunanI zakti keTalI che. maunathI karmono Azrava rokI zakAya thAya eTale karma AvIne coMTe che, vaLage che, AtmAnuM kaMpana che. vadhelI zaktinA upayogathI karmanI nirjarA thaI zake che. mauna e thAya che. to AtmAne jeTalo sthira karo, mana-vacana-kAyAthI dharmanA pAyAmAM che. mauna ekAdazInuM mahattva che. pahelAnA jamAnAmAM sthira thAo, to navA karma nahIM coMTe. to karmano Azrava nahIM 50, 60 varSe jaMgalamAM sAdhanA karavA nIkaLI jatA. kAraNa ekAMta thAya, e saMvara thaI jaze. navA karma AvatA aTakI jaze jyAre jarUrI che. jo ekAMta na hoya to bolavAnuM banavA pAme. mana-vacana-kAyAnI sthiratA thaze tyAre. bIjI tarapha e paNa yAda AdInAtha dAdA jyAre 4000 loko sAthe nIkaLyA hatA. dAdA rAkhajo ke AtmAno khorAka karma che. jo karma khalAsa to AtmAne kaMI khAtAM-pItAM nahotAM. emanI sAthenA loko paNa emanuM anukaraNa mokSa, AtmAne mukti. karatAM hatAM. paNa dAdA jeTalI zakti emanAmAM na hatI ke bhUkhyA jo have navA karma nahIM maLe to jUnA karmane UdIraNA karaze. je tarasyA rahI zake. mauna rahe, sAdhanA kare. karoDo varSothI, sAgaropama samayathI paDyA che, te karmo UdIraNA teoe dAdAne pUchyuM ke ame zuM karIe? zuM khAIe. nadInuM thaIne Avaze. A jUnA karmonI parato eka pachI eka UdIraNAmAM Avaze. jo ene samatAbhAve vedazo to karma nirjarA thaze ane ugarI pANI pIye. javAze. jo rAga-dveSathI Teko Apazo to pAchA vadhu karmonI jaMjALa bhagavAna badhuM jANatA hatA, paNa javAba na Apyo. mauna ja satAvaze. basa, AvI ja ramatanA pheramAM AtmA aTavAya che. to rahyuM vI rahyAM. kAraNa saMpUrNa jJAnanI avasthA nahotI. adhUruM jJAna haMmezAM emAM maunano mukhya rola che. mauna manane sthira karavAmAM, kAyAne nukasAna nukasAna kare che. monanuM ghaNuM mahattva che. sAdhanAnA mArge AtmAne * * * sthira karavAmAM madada kare che. evuM Arya mauna je mana-vacana-kAyAne mukta karI zakAya che. sthi2 kare. mana dvArA AtmAnuM halanacalana baMdha karavAnuM che. mana karma subodhIbena satIza masAlI : mobAIla : 9892163609.
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________________ 30. prabuddha jIvana me, 2017 sarjana-svAgact bhAratanA paHi pustakanuM nAma : navalakathAkAre samagra navalakathA daramyAna sone maDhavuM paroDha bhAga-1 ane bhAga-2 cokkasa dRSTibiMdu rAkhyuM che ane saradAra viSe bhAva zrAvakanA jIvana vyavahArane unnata banAvatA pravartatI ghaNI evI ADa vAtone TALIne bhAratanA cha guNo iDo. kalA zAha A mahAmanA vyaktitvanuM surekha citra vAcako graMthakAra: vAdIvetAla pUjyazrI AcAryazrI sAdhutAnA sAta guNone pAmIne ziva sukhanA svAmI samakSa UbhuM thAya evo prayAsa karyo che. zAMtisUrIzvarajI mahArAjA bane e ja zubha abhilASA. bhAratanI bhAvi peDhIne 'bhAratanA saradAra' no pravacanakAra-vAcanAdAtA: pravacana prabhAvaka pU. XXX paricaya karAvavAmAM A navalakathA mahattvano srota AcAryadeva zrImad kIrtisUrIzvarajI mahArAjA pustakanuM nAma : banI raheze. prakAzaka : sanmArgI prakAzana bhAratanA sthapati saradAra vallabhabhAI paTela XXX prAptisthAna : jaina ArAdhanA bhavana, lekhikA-meghA gopAla trivedI pustakanuM nAma : tana apaMga, mana aDIkhama pAchIyAnI poLa, rilIpha roDa, amadAvAdaprakAzaka : navabhArata sAhitya maMdira, (dIvyAMgonI saMgharSa kathA) 380001. phona naM. : 25392789. 134, prinsesa sTrITa, muMbaI-400002. lekhaka-kumArapALa desAI soLe maLyuM paroDha - 1 | sone maDhacuM paroDha bhAga-1 phona naM. : 022-22017213, 22085593. prakAzaka-gurjaragraMtha kAryAlaya, ratanapoLa nAkA sAme, ane 2 vibhAganA mUlya-rUA. 300/-, pAnA-244. gAMdhImArga, amadAvAda-1. phona naM.: 22144663 pravacanakAra zrImad pUjya AvRtti-prathama, i. sa. 2016. mUlya-rUA.150/-, pAnA-8+152. AcAryadeva vijaya lekhikAe saradAra vizenA AvRtti-pahelI, I. sa. 2016. kIrtiyazasUrIzvarajI saradAra vallabhabhAI paTela aneka pustako vAMcyA pachI divyAMgonI kSamatA ane mahArAjAe vAcakonI, je tAraNo, tarko ane sAmarthyano paricaya ApatA zrotAonI jijJAsAne maMtavyo UbhAM thayAM tenA A pustakamAM evA caritro saMtoSavA cha pravacano AdhAre temaNe A che ke jemaNe potAnI roLa maLyuM paroDha- 2 ApyA hatA. A graMthanA navalakathAnuM sarjana karyuM che. zArIrika maryAdAne prathama vibhAgamAM traNa navalakathAnI zarUAta ja paDakArIne AphatonI AMdhI pravacano para vivecanA saradAranA pitA vacce potAnA dhyeyanuM zikhara ApI che jemAM bhAva jhaverabhAInI malhAra rAva sAthe zataraMjanI sera karyuM che. jIvana pravAhamAM halesAM vinA hoDI zrAvakanA kriyAgata che bAjumAM ApelI kAbela salAhathI thAya che. temAM hAMkanArAonA adamya sAhasanI A kathAo che. guNo paikInA prathama traNa jhaverabhAInuM vyaktitva mahorI uThe che. 'peMDA vaheMca, saMjogoe emane zaraNAgatie AvavAnuM kahyuM tyAre guNo (1) kRtavratakarmA, DuMgara, lADabAe siMha jaNyo che". A zabdo daDha saMkalpabaLathI eno sAmano karIne potAnI (2) zIlavAna ane (3) guNavAna uparanI saradAranA vyaktitvane chAje evA che icchA pUrNa karanArAonA A caritrI che. A vivecanA che. tyArabAda A graMthanA bIjA saradAranuM bALapaNa, temanuM zALA jIvana, pustaka lakhavAnI lekhakazrIne je preraNA maLI te vize vibhAgamAM bIjA traNa pravacanomAM traNa guNo (4) temanA jhaverabA sAthenA lagna vagere prasaMgomAM teo lakhe che ke "cAreka dAyakA pUrve A ja lekhake zna juvyavahArI (5) gurusevI ane (6) vallabhabhAI keTalA makkama ane anyAya nahIM pustaka lakhela 'apaMganAM ojasa'. A pustaka mAtra pravacanakuzaLa paranI vivecanA ApavAmAM AvI sAMkhavAvALA hatA tenuM zabdazaH varNana karAyuM che. divyAMgonI duniyAmAM ja nahIM paNa sarvatra che. Ama be bhAgamAM chae guNo para graMthAdhAre zALA jIvanamAM jarUra paDye zikSakonI sAme paDIne uSmAbharyo AvakAra pAmyuM. teno hiMdI anuvAda vizada vivecanA prastuta karI che. je sarva sAmAnya paNa vallabhabhAI satyanI paDakhe rahetA. A badhAM ane aMgrejI anuvAda paNa thayo. breIla lipimAM zrAvaka vargane lAbhakArI nIvaDe tevI che. sAthe sAthe ja varNano rocaka to che ja paNa sAthe sAthe temanA rUpAMtara pAmyuM ane A saMdarbhamAM A pustakanA vyAkhyAnanI javAbadArI nibhAvavA saMyamI varga vyaktitvane paNa vyakta kare che, eTale A navalakathA racanA thaI je mAtra divyAMgone ja nahIM paraMtu sahu mATe paNa AlaMbana rUpa bane tema che. zuSka thatAM bacI gaI che. koIne jIvana saMgharSa sAme mathAmaNa karavAnI zakti A pravacanonA vAcananA mAdhyamathakI vallabhabhAIne polAdI purUSanI upamA maLI ApI jAya che. keTalIka zALAomAM pAyapustaka paramAtmAnA zAsananI bhAvazrAvakapaNAnI kriyA che. paNa enuM ghaDatara kaI rIte thayuM tenuM varNana A tarIke svIkAravAmAM AvyuM. gujarAta sarakAranuM viSayaka chae prakAranI guNa samRddhinA darzana karI navalakathAmAMthI maLI rahe che. A navalakathAnA dareka pAritoSika majA mAnava tene anurUpa potAnA jIvanamAM Atmastha karI bhavya prakaraNa saradArane kaDaka vahIvaTakartA hovA uparAMta kensaranI daradI beba jhahariyAca bhAlo phaMkamAM AtmAonA jIvanamAM enuM adhiSThAna sthAyI eka saMvedanazIla mAnava tarIke paNa paravAra kare vizvavikrama noMdhAvavAnI hatI. pUrva AphrikAmAM bhAvazrAvakapaNAnA sattara guNo pAmIne tathA bhAva che. keniyAmAM vasato spensara vesTa pagavihoNo hovA tana apaMga, mana aDIkhama
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________________ me, 2017 prabuddha jIvana - 31 chatAM keneDAmAM jhITI.vI.mAM pravacana Apato hato. ajavAza che e ajavAzanuM pratibiMba A nibhAvI jANe che. hAthapaga vihoNo kapyuTara progrAma Apato bhAvAnuvAdamAM jhIlAyuM che. mRgajaLiyA jagatamAM paNa sukhAnubhUtino nikolasa bhUjisika pravacano paNa Apato. jemsa saMskRta, prAkRta, sAhityamAM zataka, kulaka, anubhava karanAra praphUllAbahenane hArdika abhinaMdana. simpasana kRtrima paga sAthe aphaghAnistAnano batrIsI, chatrIsI vagerenA thoDAMka anuvAdo ahIM XXX doDavAnI resamAM bhAga leto. DAbA aMge lakavAgrasta samAvyA che. philIpa siDanI kahe che kAvyanuM dhyeya pustakanuM nAma : uSA upAdhyAyanAM kAvyo narAnA jevA aneka pAtronI saMgharSakathA ane Atma unnatinuM che. pU. bhuvanacaMdrajI mahArAja sAhebe saMpAdaka-ketana buhA jIvananA kaparA jaMgamAM hiMmatabhera jIvanAranI A matane A graMthamAM pAne pAne prakAzyo che. prakAzana-phlemiMgo pablikezana kathAo A pustakamAM che. x x x 14, cothA mALe, vandamAtaram ArkeDa, vandamAtaram R XXX pustakanuM nAma : zvAsanuM paMkhI (gajhala saMgraha) roDa, amadAvAda-382481. pustakanuM nAma : pratibiMba lekhaka-gajhalakAra-praphullA vorA mo.: 09879028477. mUlya-rUA. 80/-, vividha bhASAnAM cUMTelA graMtho-kAvyo, va.no vividha prakAzana-prAptisthAna-bI-1, pallava epArTamenTa, pAnA-80. AvRtti-prathama, I. sa. 2014. bhASAmAM thayelA bhAvAnuvAdano saMcaya rabara phekTarI sAme, bhAvanagara-364001. sauMdaryadarzI kavayitrI tarIke uSA upAdhyAyatAM kAvyo. bhAvAnuvAda-upAdhyAya bhuvanacaMdrajI ma.sA. mo. 9409467934. se, mata khuba AgavI oLakha saMpAdaka-gaNi ratnakIrtivijayajI ma.sA. mUlya-rUA. 100/-. AvRtti-prathama, I. saM. 2016. pragaTAvanAra uSA mUlya-rUA.50/-, pAnA-109 gujarAtI gajhala kSetre upAdhyAya gujarAtI zvAsanuM paMkho AvRtti-prathama, I. sa. 2016. praphullA vorAnuM pradAna kavayitrIomAM mokharAnuM prastuta pustakamAM noMdhapAtra che. Izvare temane sthAna dharAve che. uSA ni jA naM danA zabdanuM sAnnidhya ApyuM che, upAdhyAye kavitA, vArtA, pratibiMba aNamola AnaMda to mokaLA mane dehapIDA nATaka, vivecana, ApaNI bhASAmAM paNa ApI che. saMjogo saMzodhana, saMpAdana vagere aneka kSetromAM kheDANa upalabdha thAya che. sAme e varSothI jhajhUmI karyuM che. paraMtu emanI mukhya oLakha kavayitrInI kadamAM nAnA paNa arthagaMbhIra keTalAya graMtho, stotro, rahyAM che chatAM temaNe potAnA zabdajagatamAM che. gIta, gajhala ane achAMdasanA mAdhyamamAM kavitAo vagereno bhAvAnuvAda ahIM mANavA bhAvavizvamAM-eno jarApaNa aNasAro AvavA emanI sarjanAtmaka abhivyakti uttama rIte khIlI maLaze. A graMthanA-bhAvAnuvAdanA kartA pArthacaMdrIya dIdho nathI. gajhala praphullAbahena mATe saMjoga sAme UThI che. emanI kavitAmAM mukhyatve saudarya, praNayanI gacchanA pU. upA. zrI bhuvanacaMdrajI mahArAja jhajhUmavAnuM preraka baLa che. raMgadarzitA, ane sAMprata ghaTanAonuM Alekhana AdaraNIya chatAM samAjathI alipta ane praphUllA bahenanI gajhalamAM bhArobhAra saccAI kendrasthAne che. emanI kavitAmAM prabaLa nArIvAdI nijAnaMdamAM masta rahetA sAdhaka che. emanI sAdhanA che, UMDANa che, tAjagI che ane sAdagI che. A sUra saMbhaLAya che, paraMtu mukhya abhivyaktine badale bolakI nathI, bALukI che. gajhalo sAMprata gajhalavizvathI alaga na hovA chatAM emaNe vyaMjakatAno mArga lIdho che tethI temanI ahIM vividha bhASAnuM sAhitya che. saMskRta, sAva evuM paNa nathI. temanI gajhalo temano sva kavitA vadhAre prabhAvaka banI che. nUtana kalpono prAkRta, kacchI, aMgrejI ane bhAvAnuvAdamAM paNa sudhI pahoMcavAno paDagho banI rahe che. svane ane pratIkono samucita viniyoga, arthaghanatA, emaNe bhASAvaividhya pIrasyuM che. ahIM mAtra pAmavAnI tIvra talapa che. kaThora vAstavikatAmAMthI kalpanAnuM uDDayana ane gItonI layamaMjUla anuvAda nathI anusarjana che. ahIM bhaktAmara mRdu kSaNane zodhIne mANavAnI vAta che. padAvaline kAraNe emanI kavitAmAM kalAtmakatA stotrano bhAvAnuvAda maMdAkrAntA chaMdamAM karavAmAM satata pIDAdAyI paristhitimAM jIvatI kavayitrI siddha thaI che. A saMpAdanamAM emanI bhAvadRSTie Avyo che. laya mAdhurya ane saraLatAno subhaga tarasa nAme ciraMjIva pIDAne taro-tAjI rAkhavA ane abhivyaktinI dRSTie uttama 33 samanvaya thayo che. bhakatAmara stotramAM dharabAyeluM mATe mRgajaLa ucheravAnI vAta kare che. kavitAono samAveza karyo che. bhaktitattva sIdhuM pAmavuM hoya ane kAvyasauMdarya praphUllAbahenanI gajhalomAM radIpha paNa dhyAnAkarSaka temanI kavitA vize DaoN. rUpAlI barka kahe chemANavuM hoya to teno javAba A padyAnuvAdamAM che. ane sAthe sAthe hamaradIpha ane hamakAphiyA 'uSAbahenanA kAvyonuM kalApAsuM samRddha che." maLI raheze. gajhalo paNa che je AgavI UMcAI sara kare che. padmazrI DaoN. praviNa darajI kahe che - "mRdula laIne kacchanA kavi tejanA keTalAMka padyano aMgrejI uparAMta chaMdovaividhya ane chaMda para paNa haThoTI sArI AvatI kavitA che." goviMdabhAI rAvala kahe che, bhAvAnuvAda paNa ahIM maLe che ane aMgrejI che. 'tame bIjuM badhuM hova ne paNa tame nakhazikha kavi sAhityakAra jemsa elananA pustakamAMthI cUMTelA javAbadArInA paryAyasamuM vyaktitva dharAvatA cho.' aMgrejI vAkyono saMskRta padyAnuvAda paNa maLe che. praphullAbahena temanI gajhalomAM alaga alaga rUpe XXX A badhAM kAvyomAM pUjyazrInA jIvana pathano nirlepa vyaktinI jema badhA kiradAra ba-khUbIthI pustakanuM nAma : vAralI lokagIto
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________________ 32 prabuddha jIvana me, 2017 | 6 kamaleza nAma. cAvaDA saMpAdaka-DaoN. kamaleza Ara. gAyakavADa prakAzaka-ketanabhAI pI. bhaNazAlI zrI muMbaI jaina yuvaka saMghane maLela anudAnanI yAdI zrImad rAjacaMdra prAkRta nidhi, 308, evaresTa komlekSa, subhASa roDa, prabuddha jIvana nidhi phaMDa janarala Donezana zAstrI medAna sAme, rAjakoTa. 100000 leksa keniyA 15000 gulAbacaMda karamacaMda zAha HU.F. vitaraka-phlemiMgo pablikezana, amadAvAda. 5000 zrI hasamukha pI. zAha (AnaMdaghanajI) 14, cothA mALe, vandamAtaram ArkeDa, vandamAtaram 999 zrI bhupatarAya ke. zAha 10000 prahira phAunDezana (AnaMdaghanajI) roDa, amadAvAda-382481. mUlya-rUA. 20/pAnA-128. AvRtti-prathama, I. sa. 2016. 105999 kula rakama haste-zrI gautama gAMdhI vAralI lokagItonuM jamanAdAsa hAthIbhAI mahetA anAja rAhata phaMDa 5000 madhubena zAha (AnaMdaghanajI) "vAlI lokagIto saMpAdana DaoN. kamaleza Ara. 50000 leITa sva. IndirAbena nagIna 5000 smitA DI. zAha gAyakavADa taraphathI pragaTa dAsa zAha ceriTebala TrasTa 2501 yaza inphosolyuzana thayuM che. sAhityamAM eka haste-2mAbena mahetA haste-hiteza mAyANI AdivAsI samAjanA 5000 zrI vinoda je. mahetA 2000 sulatAbena ke. zAha (AnaMdaghanajI) vAralI samAja ane kuMkaNA haste-prIti manoja khaMDeriyA 1500 DaoN. rami bhedA(AnaMdaghanajI) samAjanI sAthe anya 5000 zrI sureza jaina 1500 sAgara vinoda mahetA (AnaMdaghanajI) AdivAsI jAtionA haste-kalpAbena hasamukhabhAI jIvananuM pratibiMba rajU karatuM pustaka khUba ja suMdara 1000 dipaka sAvalA (AnaMdaghanajI) 1000 umeza jagAnI (AnaMdaghanajI) zAha 1000 ramAbena mahetA (AnaMdaghanajI) A pustakamAM vAralI jAtino itihAsa, 60000 kula rakama 1000 uSAbena pI. zAha (AnaMdaghanajI) saMskRtino achaDato ullekha khUbaja rasaprada zailImAM saMgha AjIvana sabhya varNavAyo che. temAM udbhava dharma, ArAdhyadevo, 125000 dipacaMda gArlI ceriTebala TrasTa 500 premajI ke. saMgoI (AnaMdaghanajI) nAraNadevanI viziSTatA, mammara deva, vambalIdeva, 500 jIvana jI. boharA (AnaMdaghanajI) haste-hasamukhabhAI DI.gArDI "mAvalI, vAghadeva, kanasarImAtA, bhUtapreta vagerenuM 500 hinA gAlA (AnaMdaghanajI) 75000 dipacaMda gArDa ceriTebala TrasTa kramavAra varNana sAthenuM vivaraNa khUba ja adbhuta 500 jInala gogarI (AnaMdaghanajI) haste-hasamukhabhAI DI. zAha 400 Indravadana zAha (AnaMdaghanajI) (15 navA lAipha membarsa mATe) vAralIonI jIvanarIti, janma, bALapaNa, 48901 kula rakama 5000 linAbena zaileza zAha sagAI, lagna, mRtyu, khAnapAna, utsava, tahevAro paradeza lavAjama vagerenuM varNana khUba ja upayogI che. lokavidyAnI 5000 duzyata ke. zAha 6500 sumanalAla zAha, keneDA vibhAvanA ane tenA lakSaNo, lokavADamayanuM - haste-lalitabhAI zAha 6425 kizora dozI, yuesae vargIkaraNa vagerenI vistRta samaja ApavAmAM AvI 210000 kula rakama che. 12925 kula 2kama prabuddha jIvana korpasa phaMDa kamalezabhAI e AdivAsI vAralI samAjanA 300000 dipacaMda gArlI ceriTebala TrasTa aciraNa gIta sAhityane prajA samakSa lAvavAnuM prazasya kArya haste-zrI hasamukha DI. zAha karyuM che. saMpAdake mULa gIto meLavavA dUra-dUranA sadAcaraNamAM jIvana vitAvanAra | (15 varSa mATe. Disembara mahino). vAralI AdivAsI raheThANa vistAramAM jaI pratyakSa dIrghajIvI hoya che. enAM saMtAna paNa ene mulAkAto karI bhAI baheno pAsethI mULa vAralI 300000 kula rakama sukha ApanArA hoya che. e dhana-saMpatti bolImAM lokagIto meLavyA che. AdivAsI lekhaka kizora TimbaDIyA keLavaNI phaMDa paNa prApta kare che. kharAba loko enI tarIke sAhitya saMpAdana ane sarjanamAM A lekhakano 20000 leITa IndirAbenanagInadAsa saMgatamAM Ave to teonuM AcaraNa praveza kAbiledAda che. zAha ceriTebala TrasTa sudharI jAya che. haste-2mAbena mahetA mobAIla : 9223190753 AcaraNa darpaNa jevuM che, jemAM dareka 20000 kula rakama mANasane potAnuM pratibiMba dekhAya che. * * *
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________________ MAY 2017 PRABUDDH JEEVAN A glistening sunshine of selfless compassion! Prachi Dhanwant Shah How would one define penance and pilgrimage understand what she said. But her gracious words of cantilevered into one paradigm? Penance precedes love didn't take a rest but showered on that adorable control over our senses and suppresses, diminishes child. She quickly grabbed his cap from his bag and physical disarrays of our body. During this penance with the immense amount of affection, she put it on conducts saamayaka, swaadhyaya, over that child's head, saying "there you go, my dear..." pratikaman, it influences elemental facades of Auxiliary. she noticed his mouth was drooling with spirituality, leading to the path of moksha, salvation. saliva, dripping over his shoulder. She hustled and Entitled and enriched with Jain religion, it is arabbed a napkin kept by the side of the wheelchair understandable that eternal penance preserves its and wiped his face meekly with tender care and warmth magnitude towards the practice of Jain religion. without any minuscule averseness. But that was not Similarly, visiting a pilgrimage has its own implications just it... she also sighted, his nose was oozing out such as its encounter, vivacities devotion and ecstasy mucus. She quickly clutched another napkin and of emotion within oneself guiding the soul of a devotee sensitively cleaned his nose, whispering, "Oh my dear to abstinence, renunciation, and wisdom. But it is fathomable that this implements beneficial only to oneself. How about and rather what about others? "prabuddha jIvana'nuM lavAjama sIdhuM Pursuing Jain principle in life leading to self beMka ekAunTamAM jamA karAvI zakAzerealization is excellent but self-realization, as per my Bank of India, Current A/c No. 003920100020260, acuity, along with oblation is idyllic and unsurpassed. It happened so, one day, I went to pick up my Prarthana Samaj Branch, Mumbai - 400 004. Account Name : Shri Mumbai Jain Yuvak Sangh children from school. I entered the school and informed the school secretary that I would like to sign out my IFSC BKID 0000039 children. I was waiting for my boys to come from their pemenTa karIne nAma ane saranAmuM A phormamAM bharIne mokalavuM classroom and was seated on the bench outside the athavA mela paNa karI zakAya che. school office. It was time for special children to go home first. Every public school in the USA holds education 'prabuddha jIvana'nuM vArSika | trivarSiya | pAMcavarSiya | dasa varSiya for special children i.e. children with special needs who 41919421 / 314l-3 $1$2 ............. GIRL BALL DLLA1 are physically or mentally underdeveloped and needs hlsci eg / al.............. 12% '446 994' HE Mlalui special care. These students are assigned special care sIdhuM jamA karAvyuM che. mane nIcenA saranAme aMka mokalazo. and every child has a special individual helper, a a128a -414........... therapist and ofcourse a teacher to educate them. While my wait, I saw a beautiful lady strolling a wheelchair 22-117......................... 312-014.............................*************** with a cute little child seated on it, wrapped in winter .................... ............... clothes, innocent eyes, hands resting on the armrest ut $13................ sl-ti............. of the wheelchair, head leaned on his right shoulder... HUSA ................... Email ID. a child with disabilities. The lady came and sat next to me, waiting with the child for the school bus to come, vArSika lavAjama rUA. 300 traNa varSanuM lavAjama rUA. 750 to take the child safely to his home. While this wait, | pAMca varSanuM lavAjama rUA. 1250 dasa varSanuM lavAjama rU. 2500 she whispered to the child, "Oh dear, I forgot to put | oNphisaH zrI muMbaI jaina yuvaka saMgha, 33 mahamadI minAra, 14mI your cap on... I'msoo sorry honeybunch!!".. These Waalsl, B... 1-2412 - lyri, were the days of January when the surrounding was covered with snow. I looked at that child and the lady, 4485-00r. lasit : 022 2342 0265 and I could realize, that child could barely even Email ID : shrimjys@gmail.com
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________________ 34 PRABUDDH JEEVAN MAY 2017 this cold is getting to my baby.. I'm so sorry!" There Why are we just struggling to clean our soul? Why came the bus for special students. With utmost care are we walking on the path of salvation all alone for and calmness, this lady attending the special child self-realization? Why are we visiting pilgrims to bless strolled him to the bus. By then the bus driver had our soul with devotion towards god and experience dropped down the handicapped door of the bus. She eternal bliss? Why are we just apprehensive about ambled the child into the bus and parked the wheelchairsh shedding our karma? What about others? What about therein. Giving a peck on his check and a love and compassion towards others? Why not take compassionate embrace, she bid goodbye for the day an oath towards penance in this life today, that "I would to him and got off the bus with the wish of seeing him " inhale compassion, exhale love, inhale love, exhale the next day. The bus left to drop this special child peace, inhale peace and exhale compassion".. for if securely at his home. What a captivating sight and there is love within yourself, you would give love to encounter of compassion. I believe that lady would others. Yes, if we put it in right words, it is true that to surely have pursued the fact in her life that " You don't win over oneself is much needed in order to help others need a reward for love and compassion...Just like you win over themselves. So self-realization, self-penance, do not need a reward for breathing. You breathe to live, self-devotion goes hand in hand with compassion, and you love to live." benevolent andveneration towards everyone and In those brief moments of quiet reflection, I could everything around us. Lord Mahavira states, to respect renew my sense of self and remember that every life all living being on this earth and express compassion, on this earth is important and precious! I fathomed that is the in is the ultimate way of non-violence. there is no way better than this manner of penance. I May the pane of penance and pilgrim expressed in could experience the ambiance of purity, love, the speckled lexicon, proliferate in this cosmos. May compassion and devotion through the aura of that the glistening sunshine of selfless compassion never meticulous lady and the institute. Every bit of her soul invite darker shades of life, and if ever it does so, may echoed penance and devotion then why would she it diminishes within no spell of time... ever need to go to any pilgrimage? Those physically Esteemed Shri Dalai Lama once said, "A heart full and mentally disabled children embraced purity and of love and compassion is the main source of inner wholesomeness within their soul and I'm sure that lady Atlady strength, willpower, happiness, and mental tranquility!" could foresight supreme being within them... rest * * * assured, we can experience them same as well. These 49,wood Ave, Edison, N.J-08820,U.S.A. innocent souls and their helpers at school, have not (+1-917-582-5643) accepted their physical disabilities as their helplessness but have accepted it as a challenge to 'ghara beThAM vyAkhyAnonuM zravaNa karo fight back by means of different skills and therapy taught in the school. Here there is no discrimination on * 82mI vyAkhyAnamALAnA badhAM ja vyAkhyAno Apa saMsthAnI caste, religion or color. Compassion and selfless G4 PLUS2 www.mumbai-jainyuvaksangh.com devotion is equivalent to every student. upara sAMbhaLI zakazo. Every life, every soul on this earth are just not the rius: de Hi -Hl. 1. : 09820347990 same, but they should have the same opportunities BALL QULVL B414 youtube (42 4BL als minion and equality. If we understand this, life would be an 2184. easy wave to sail through. Love every human being, everything around us, and compassion will unfold from 2145:696MIS "it - 09004848329 within yourself artlessly. But when you love someone zrI muMbaI jaina yuvaka saMgha-paryuSaNa vyAkhyAnamALA 2016 or something, you do not love them on grounds of your yuTayUbanA saujanyadAtA: terms and conditions. Nonetheless, love is an zrI pIyUSabhAI zAMtilAla koThArI expression of emotion within you which needs to be unconditional and pure. And when you prevail over this vyAkhyAnono lAbha levA jijJAsu AtmAne vinaMti. pure quality of love, your soul will be happy, and an -menejara enroute to the path of salvation would unfurl.
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________________ MAY 2017 PRABUDDH JEEVAN 35 Practicing Forgiveness in Difficult Situations By Dilip V. Shah, Philadelphia, USA [ Dilip V. Shah of Philadelphia is a past president of JAINA. He is currently serving as chairman of JAINA's Diaspora Committee and member of the Academic Liaison Committee. He is a frequent contributor to the Jain Digest.] "Unforgivable" is an adjective used by many in nearby Chester county, rode together, in a procession exasperation, anger or in resignation. We see and hear over 12 miles long. Letters of sympathy for the parents about acts of brutal violence everywhere and wonder of the victims poured from around the world - some how the victim's families must be dealing with such were addressed simply to "Amish families, USA." Over atrocities. The feelings of anger and retaliation seem four million dollars were raised in support of the families like a normal reaction. But many decide to take a of victims. different path; path of love, kindness, forgiveness. In In a country, where gun violence is on an increase, this article we bring you a few true events at a national, what made news in this case was not the reaction of communal and individual level that challenge the need the world at large or the media coverage or the justice of the word "unforgivable" in our psyche. system, but the response to the tragedy from the United Nations has declared October 2nd, birthday victimized community. Their reaction showed their deep of Mahatma Gandhi, as an international day of adherence to their Christian beliefs, their grace and celebration of Non Violence. But a small Amish farmland collective projection of forgiveness. of Lancaster County in Pennsylvania remembers The Amish community didn't cast blame, point October 2, 2006 for a very different reason. A typical fingers or held press conference with lawyers on their day in autumn everywhere is quiet and peaceful. side. Instead, they reached out with grace and However this town was robbed of the peace with compassion to the killer's family. The afternoon of the sounds of gunfire from inside an Amish one room shooting, before the blood on the school floor had even School. When the police broke in, they discovered the dried, an Amish grandfather of one of the killed airl. bodies of 10 girls between the ages of 6 and 13 who expressed forgiveness towards the killer. The same were shot by a local 36 year old Charles Carl Roberts. day, Amish neighbours visited Roberts family to comfort who had then committed suicide. Five of the girls died them in their pain and sorrow. Robert's family was of gunshot wounds - two of those were sisters. invited to the funeral of one of the girls and Amish Charles Roberts was himself a father of two. His mourners outnumbered English mourners at the funeral family and his in laws all lived in this community of 3,000 of Charles Roberts. When Roberts family expressed Amish and Englishmen (term Amish use for Non- desire to move out of the community, the Amish Amish). He was a milk truck driver serving the counseled them to stay. They also raised funds for the community. Nine years earlier, his wife delivered their orphaned kids of Charles Roberts. first child that died after living only for 20 minutes. This act of forgiveness was not an act of a few Charles blamed God for the tragedy and resolved to individuals but of an entire community that followed the avenge the death of his little girl. When he entered the teachings of Jesus who taught his followers to forgive school, some of the children even recognized him. On one another and place the needs of others before the blackboard he noticed a welcoming sign. "Visitors themselves. This noble act was covered by more than Bubble Up our Days". It did not deter him from the 3,000 stories worldwide and more than half a million gruesome act he had planned. websites. Forgiveness healed the entire community. The unfathomable story was covered extensively There are a few books written about this extraordinary by the local and national pressinforming people all even around the world. The Amish community scrupulously (http://lancasterpa.com/amish-blog/amishavoids publicity but the tragedy exposed them to the shooting-forgiveness-books/) shocked and bewildered world. Not only the Amish but the entire Lancaster County came together in their South Africa gained independence in 1910 but it shock and grief. Thousands gathered at various became the government of white minority denying basic churches for prayers. Over 3,000 motorcyclists from human rights to the black majority. Afrikaner National
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________________ 36 PRABUDDHJEEVAN MAY 2017 Party won the general election in 1948 under the slogan and Reconciliation Commission to investigate gross "apartheid" (literally "separateness") and in 1950 human rights violations that occurred in the previous Apartheid became the law. A series of Land Acts set 35 years. The intent was to prevent reoccurrence of aside more than 80 percent of the country's land for atrocities and to unify the country. The commission left the white minority, and "pass laws" required non-whites crucial questions about apartheid-era atrocities to carry documents authorizing their presence in unanswered. After much debate, South Africa's TRC restricted areas. was the first truth commission to offer amnesty to Racial segregation and white supremacy was not individuals who fully confessed in public their role in only legalized, it was brutally enforced. Blacks were politically motivated crimes. This initiative rejected the forced out of their homes and forced to live in judicial concept of "Retributive Justice" and adopted designated black hamlets. Multitude cases of rape, noble concept of "Restorative Justice". TRC model torture, deaths in detention, political assassinations and is often seen as a model of conflict resolution. even human burning were carried out by whites against *** * ** * the blacks. Any resistance by native blacks was brutally Rwanda, a small landlocked country in east-central crushed - leaders of the movement killed and things Africa is another example of human capacity to inflict kept getting worst. Despite strong and consistent terrible crimes on fellow human beings and also the opposition to apartheid within and outside of South miraculous powers of forgiveness. The country has a Africa, its laws remained in effect for the better part of long and turbulent history of conflicts between majority 50 years. By 1961, most resistant leaders had been Hutus and minority Tutsis. The two ethnic groups are captured and sentenced to long prison terms or very similar and speak the same language, inhabit the executed. Nelson Mandela, a founder of the military wing same areas, live as neighbours and follow the same of the ANC, was incarcerated from 1963 to 1990; his traditions. Tutsis are believed to be of Ethiopian imprisonment drew international attention and helped descent. When the Belgian colonists arrived in 1916, garner support for the anti-apartheid cause. In prison, they produced identity cards classifying people he read the writings of Mahatma Gandhi and became according to their ethnicity. The Belgians considered his great admirer. Tutsis to be superior to the Hutus. As a result, the Tutsis Mandela was released from prison in 1990. As a enjoyed better jobs and educational opportunities than recognized voice of the black majority and working the Hutus. The result was a gradual buildup of closely with Bishop Desmond Tutu, Mandela prevailed resentment among the Hutus against the Tutsis on his people to renounce violence and forget culminating in series of riots. In 1959 more than 20,000 vengeance. He worked closely with President de Klerk's Tutsis were killed and many more Tutsis fled to the government to draw up a new constitution. President neighbouring countries. When the Belgians F.W. de Klerk began to repeal most of the legislation relinquished power and granted Rwanda independence that provided the basis for apartheid. After both sides in 1962, the Hutus took their place. In the years after made concessions, they reached agreement in 1993. independence, the Hutu government routinely blamed A new constitution, which enfranchised blacks and other Tutsis for every crisis in Rwanda. racial groups, took effect in 1994, and elections that The Tutsi refugees in neighbouring Uganda formed year led to a coalition government with a nonwhite the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) with the aim of majority, and Nelson Mandela becoming the first black overthrowing Hutu regime and securing their right to President of the country marking the official end of the return to their homeland. Rwandan President apartheid system. Later in 1993, both Nelson Mandela Habyarimana exploited that threat and accused Tutsis and FW de Klerk shared Nobel Peace Prize "for their inside Rwanda of being traitors and RPF collaborators. work for the peaceful termination of the apartheid By 1991, Rawandan Armed forces began to equip regime, and for laying the foundations for a new civilian militias that comprised of extremist Hutus. In democratic South Africa". August 1993, a peace deal emerged between The war on the majority native population ended but Habyarimana and RPF but it did not stop the strife issues of guilt, punishment, revenge etc. were on between the tribes. Hutu and RTF leaders negotiated everyone's mind. In 1995, the government formed Truth a power sharing agreement in Tanzania. 2,500 UN
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________________ MAY 2017 PRABUDDH JEEVAN 37 peace keeping forces (UNAMIR) were deployed to bring or banana beer, to the survivour's home. The accord about implementation of the peace treaty. Family is sealed with song and dance. members of President Habyarimana setup a radio 22 years later, reconciliation still happens - one station and the President delayed implementation of encounter at a time..! the peace treaty. If forgiveness is possible even after killing of 5 little On April 6,1994, President Habyarimana and girls in a school one afternoon, or pain and shame of President Ntaryamira of neighbouring Burundi were apartheid for a whole generation, or unthinkable evil of killed in a mysterious rocket attack on their plane while nearly a million deaths in just 100 days, then we must returning from Tanzania. No one knows who shot the conclude that there indeed is a betterway to end all plane down but the incident immediately provoked what conflicts. However long, whatever the hurt - forgiving has become known as Rwandan Genocide. Killings is the only path to solace or lasting peace. began that night as the Rwandan Armed Forces set Just like the above examples of forgiveness at a up roadblocks and militia went from door to door killing community and national level, history is also full of people. The presidential guard orchestrated a individuals who have chosen the path of forgiveness campaign of retribution against leaders of the political instead of animosity and revenge. opposition and slaughtering of Tutsis and moderate Hutus. Initially, only the military officials carried out the The 2014 Nobel Peace prize co-winner, Malala brutal campaign but soon many others joined the Yousafzai, lived in the Swat Valley, an area in Pakistan mayhem.UNAMIR forces were not permitted to where the Taliban had taken control and imposed its intervene. Neighbours killed members of Tutsi family strict ideology of no music, no visible women, and members they had known for years, done business especially no girls in school. On October 9, 2012, Malala with or gone to church with. When the dust settled, rode the bus to school just like any other child. Habyarimana's death triggered 100 day orgy of violence However, two men stopped and boarded the bus, resulting in brutal deaths of 800,000 people, some demanding Malala to identify herself. And right after that, 300,000 of them were thought to be children. The the men fired shots at Malala and three other girls on deaths were by machetes. UN peace keeping forces the bus. The reason for this violence was simply were withdrawn 15 days after the carnage began. By because she had defied their rules and refused to stay the time the Tutsi-led Rwandese Patriotic Front gained silent on the topic of education for girls. control of the country through a military offensive in Even though the Talibs tried to kill her, she did not early July, hundreds of thousands of Rwandans were want to retaliate against them. In her speech at the dead and many more displaced from their homes. The UN, she said "I do not even hate the Talib who shot me. RPF victory created 2 million more refugees (mainly Even if there is a gun in my hand and he stands in front Hutus) from Rwanda, exacerbating what had already of me, I would not shoot him. This is the compassion become a full-blown humanitarian crisis. that I have learnt from Muhammad-the prophet of mercy, In April of 2000, Paul Kagame was elected as Jesus Christ and Lord Buddha. This is the legacy of Rwanda's first Tutsi President. To foster national change that I have inherited from Martin Luther King, reconciliation he issued a decree to release sixty Nelson Mandela and Muhammad Ali Jinnah. This is the thousand lower level killers and looters from the 1994 philosophy of non-violence that I have learnt from genocide that had owned up their crimes. When these Gandhiji, Bacha Khan and Mother Teresa. And this is criminals arrived back into their towns and villages, they the forgiveness that I have learnt from my mother and came face to face with the families of the persons they father. This is what my soul is telling me, be peaceful had killed. With heavy heart, they repented and and love everyone." confessed to the families of the victims. Small groups * * * * * * * of Hutus and Tutsis are counseled over many months, Alice Herz-Sommer is another such role model of culminating in the perpetrator's formal request for today's time that we all should aspire to learn from. forgiveness. If forgiveness is granted by the survivour, She was an accomplished pianist and the longest lived then the perpetrator and his family and friends, typically survivor of the Holocaust. She started giving concerts bring a basket of offerings, usually food and sorghum across the Europe in her 20s and 30s. Her beautiful
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________________ 38 PRABUDDH JEEVAN MAY 2017 life turned to a tragedy when at the age of 39, she was Frank at the prison and heard his story of how he was sent to Terezin concentration camp along with her 5 broken in the wake of thousands killed on 9/11 and a year old son. Earlier her mother was captured and killed passive regret for Balbir's death without taking personal in the concentration camp and later on her husband responsibility for taking a life. Rana told him of the time met the same fate. She slept on a frozen dirt floor, was he had accidently run into his wife and daughter, inviting threatened every day of her life and that of her son, them for dinner at his home. Frank remembered his and was given very little food to eat. But she never daughter telling him the story and was profoundly moved developed a feeling of hatred towards Nazis, always that Rana showed compassion to his daughter. Even laughed, and gave her son so much love that in such a after knowing that Frank had not truly come to terms gruesome environment of the concentration camp, he with enormity of his crime, Rana told Frank that he had felt secure and unafraid. already forgiven him and thus began the process of Alice believed that "hatred eats the soul of the hater healing for both parties. and not the hated", and chose never to hate anyone no J ust as there are no mountain peaks that cannot matter what. As Lord Buddha once said, "To be angry be scaled, there is nothing that cannot be forgiven and at someone is to drink a glass of poison and expect there is no one undeserving of forgiveness. Human the person you are angry at to die". Alice learned to be beings possess a divine gift - Power to Forgive! thankful for everything in her life. She treated everything in her life as a gift from God. You can read many stories like this of ordinary Alice was pragmatic and knew that we all make people that have shown extra-ordinary courage, mistakes and we need to learn from our mistakes. But compassion and love, in various books and on Internet. instead people complain a lot and the complaining, One such resource is a website of "The Forgiveness according to her, does not change anything. "I know Project" (http://theforgivenessproject.com) about the bad things but I look only for the good things" The Forgiveness Project was founded in 2004 in - this mantra of Alice was at the foundation of her response to the invasion of Iraq and as a way of optimism and positivity until her death at the age of countering the rhetoric of retaliation so prominent at 110 in February 2014. that time. Journalist, Marina Cantacuzino, set out to collect stories from victims and perpetrators who had Rana Sodhi commemorates his brother's death in chosen to resolve conflict through dialogue and a memorial service every year on the 15th September restorative means. It is an award-winning, secular with family, friends and neighbours at the corner of a organization that collects and shares real stories of gas station in Arizona. Four days after 9/11 attacks, forgiveness to build understanding, encourage Rana's brother Balbir Singh was shot dead while reflection and enable people to reconcile with the pain planting flowers in front of his store on September 15, and move forward from the trauma in their own lives. 2001. His murderer, Frank Roque was caught, tried The stories of forgiveness on their website and sentenced to life term in prison. Balbir was the first of demonstrate that forgiveness is first and foremost a dozens of people killed in hate crimes against Sikhs and personal journey: a visceral process with no set rules Muslims after 9/11. His murder turned a generation of or time limits. It is not dependent on faith and it is often young people, like family friend Valarie Kaur into activists, just as mysterious as love". who began helping communities organize against racism T he book, "The Forgiveness Project", explores and violence. For the past 15 years Rana has been themes of forgiveness, reconciliation and conflict travelling the country with message of love and transformation. It brings together the personal compassion, holding yearly prayer meetings. testimonies of both survivors and perpetrators of crime But after this year's memorial, Kaur and Rana and violence and asks the question whether realized that despite the passage of 15 years of activism, forgiveness may have more currency than revenge in their communities were still trapped in a cycle of an age, which seems locked into the cycle of conflict. violence and hate. So one night they decided to end their exhibitions, events, and programs use the suffering by doing something unthinkable. A week narrative learning techniques to present alternatives to after 2016 memorial service for his brother, he called cycles of conflict, violence, crime and injustice. ***
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________________ MAY 2017 PRABUDDH JEEVAN 39 WOMAN - THE JAINA PERSPECTIVE' ENLIGHTEN YOURSELF BY SELF STUDY OF JAINOLOGY LESSON - SIXTEEN [CONTINUED] O Dr. Kamini Gogri The arguments brought forth by the Digambara au- of the debate, that the inferiority of women is thors to support their position that there can be no spiri- demonstrated by the fact of nuns having to show tual liberation for women are quite diverse and attack deference even to monks who may be far junior to them the question, as is typical of traditional Indian sastraic and even by the fact that they are subject to sexual argumentation, from a number of directions. As usual, harassment and assault by men. appeal is made on both sides of the debate to scrip- It is worthy of note in connection with these disputes tural authority, logical interence, linguistic interpreta- that the Svetambaras, although they steadfastly argue tion, and direct observation. And much of this argu- for the possibility of women entering the mendicant life mentation such as that recorded in several of the texts and attaining nirvana, rarely categorically refute the translated here dealing with the question of whether misogynistic claims of the Digambaras per se. the word "women" in scriptures asserting the possibil- Although they may tend to soften these claims by for ity of moksa for women really means "a man with the example, pointing out famous women from literature sexual feelings of a woman" and whether the two sects and scripture who showed great spiritual or moral agreement that a woman, no matter how wicked, can courage, or by asserting that men too may share some fall no lower than the sixth of Jainism's seven hells of the-moral defects charged to women, they seem logically implies that she can, by the same token, not generally willing to accept the negative rise to the highest spiritual state (nirvana) may seem characterizations, contenting themselves merely with baffling to the reader unfamiliar with the canons of tra- assserting that these do not in and of themselves ditional Indian debate. preclude the possibility of moksa for all women. Some argumentation on the Digambara side derives, Interesting though this type of argumentation is for those from postulates that echo the generally misogynistic desirous of understanding the nature and development and patriarchal attitudes of the society as a whole. It is of attitudes toward gender in traditional cultures and argued for example, that women are not only physically societies, it is through their detailed and elaborate weaker than men, and hence unable, to endure the discussion of the biological and psychological aspects harsh asceticism regarded as necessary for liberation, of female gender and sexuality and their development but are intellectually, ethically, and morally inferior as of the notion of specific types of libido or sexual well. Thus Sakatayana cites, as his purvapaksa; the orientation (veda) that the jaina texts stand out as arguments that women are excessively devious and unique and of particular importance. fickle (Chapter II, #78), that they lack the intellectual, The concept of veda, sexual orientation that is not forensic, and supernatural powers of advanced male necessarily related to biological gender, appears to be spiritual adepts (#21-25), and that they lack the unique to the jaina texts in traditional India and to physical, moral, and spiritual courage of men (#85). In constitute the only consistent theoretical attempt in this several passages the general cultural attitude that culture and perhaps any premodern culture, to explain women have less control of their sexual passion than the phenomena of heterosexuality and homosexuality. men is brought forward as at Jayasena's Taparyavrtti The latter phenomenon in particular is all but ignored in (Capter IV, #4-5). Several of the authors, including the sastraic literature associated with the Hindu Sakatayana and Prabhacandra refer to what must be tradition. As is made clear from a reading of the texts seen as social factors in a patriarchally structured on the spiritual liberation of women, jaina thinkers monastic order and ambient society, rather than as understood that there were three kinds of sexual feeling, natural endowments of gender. Thus we have, the which they called striveda, pumveda, and arguments, repeated by several authors on both sides napumsakaveda, or the sexual feelings normally
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________________ 40 PRABUDDHJEEVAN MAY 2017 appropriate to a woman, a man, and a hermaphrodite feminine microbiology that is, so far as I can tell, unique respectively. However, they argued, these feelings in world literature. need not in all cases correspond to the biological According to the unanimous jaina view certain gender of the person who entertains them. Thus a portions of a woman's body, particularly orifices and person can, for example, be biologically and indentations such, as the genitals, the space between anatomically male (dravyapurusa) while at the same the breasts, the armpits, and the navel, give rise-to time emotionally or psychologically female (bhavastri). vast numbers of minute and subtle living organisms, The most elaborate formulation of this theory of sexuality known as aparyaptas. These creatures, sometimes independent of biology is given by Meghavijaya seen as arising specifically from menstrual and other (Chapter VI; #1-8), but it is addressed by most of the bodily fluids are, the argument goes, destroyed in vast writers either (for the Digambaras) as part of their numbers by, the ordinary activities of the woman whose demonstration of the impossibility of moksa for women body is their host and so she is seen as inevitably the or (for the Svetambaras) as part of the argument of agent of massive involuntary himsa, or injury to living their opponents. In both cases the issue is the beings. Moreover, it is thought that the activities of Digambara attempt to argue that where scripture these microscopic beings in the genitals are perceived appears to permit spiritual liberation for women is in by women as a sort of "itching" that can be relieved fact using the word "woman" in a secondary sense to only through intercourse. As a result of this, Digambara mean a biological male with the sexual orientation of a authors such as Kundakunda argue that a woman is, female, that is, a male homosexual. Nonetheless, the by virtue of her very anatomy, incapable of fully argumentation is intrinsically interesting and sheds adopting the-great vows incumbent on an aspirant to significant new light on the construction of human liberation for, as a consequence of her inevitable sexuality; in premodern socities. infestation with these aparyaptas, she is, on the one But beyond even the elaborate and learned hand constantly violating the-cardinal Jaina precept of disputations summarized above, a reading of the Jaina ahimsa, or no injury to living beings, and, on the other, texts translated by jaini shows clearly that the never free from the sexual desires that block spiritual Digambaras principal argument against the liberation progress. of women rests on their perception of and profound Finally, the Digambaras attitudes concerning anxieties about the anatomy of the human female in women's reproductive physiology and alleged general and her reproductive systemic particular. As deficiencies in morality and self-discipline, must be one might expect, a good deal of the negative attitude seen as focused, upon the critical and defining feature. towards the female body in this strictly patriarchal of their monastic praxis nudity. For it is the Digambara system is focused upon the phenomenon of requirement that a true mendicant must abandon menstruation. Thus Meghavijaya, representing the clothing hat, with this doctrinal question of women's Digambara position, remarks that she has an impure capacity for spiritual liberation, most clearly and bitterly body as is evident from the flow of menstrual blood divides the two major sectarian traditions of Jainism. each month." He goes on to reinforce the sense of Both sects agree that there can be no question of women disgust this causes him by quoting Kundakunda and adopting nudity for a variety of reasons ranging from the Bhatrhari verse cited above. This sort of negative the supposed revulsion the - sight of naked (and focus or taboo on menstruation has been widely possibly - menstruating) women would arouse to the observed in many traditional cultures both in India and inevitability of their provoking and living with a constant elsewhere. The Jaina texts, however, take patrjarchal fear of sexual attack that would, in any case, be inimical anxiey and phobic representation of the female body to the peace of mind necessary for the true "spiritual and its natural processes to heights almost unknown path". Moreover, the Digambaras argue, women are elsewhere. For in additional to their revulsion for the more given to feelings of shame and modesty than are actual reproductive organs and processes of women, men and could never overcome them sufficiently to the Jaina authors have created an entirely imaginary wander publicly in the nude.
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________________ MAY 2017 PRABUDDH JEEVAN 41 Since, for all of these reasons the Digambaras posit But this is not to say that the issues and attitudes the impossibility of nuns going naked, they ipso facto about women and gender raised in these texts are not deny them any hope of spiritual liberation for the intrinsically of interest and even vital to our Digambaras argue that a sense of modesty indicates understanding of the conception of women as "the the failure to suppress all sexual feelings and that the Other" in patriarchal societies in South Asia and wearing of clothing is but one form of keeping elsewhere. For in the Jainas characteristic peeling of nonessential possessions, two factors that are social and psychological constructions back to some absolutely out of keeping with the life of a true radically constructed core, we see, I think, with renunciant. Thus nudity is, for the Digambaras an unusual clarity some of the roots of misogyny in absolute requirement for a genuine mendicant. Since traditional as well as modern male-dominated cultures. women cannot undertake this practice it follows that For here, along with the usual stereotyping abuse about they cannot be true nuns and hence one cannot attain the "weaker sex", the fickleness of women, and their spiritual liberation, immediately following a life in a alleged sexual voracity, we have a perhaps more female body. fundamental set of attacks deriving unambiguously The Svetambaras, for whom the donning of white from powerful and deep-seated phobic anxiety about robes is both a symbol and a requirement of the the "uncanny" physiology of the female reproductive monastic life, cannot accept this position, and one is system. The Jaina conception of a woman inhabiting often-moved, in reading these debates, by the feeling a body infested with hosts of tiny beings that, through that despite the very real animus towards women her incessant desires and biological processes, she expressed by both parties to the debate and the both creates -and annihilates, a body at, once alluring amount of effort and time invested in it; it harbours a and repulsive that makes of a man both a lecher and powerful and only occasionally explicit subtext. In other mass murderer, and so leads him from the spiritual words, one feels that in their virulent attacks on the path directly to hell, is virtually unique in its minds, souls, and bodies of women, the Digambaras construction, and explicitness. My feeling is that these are also perhaps chiefly attempting to undercut the attitudes, far from being the quaint or bizarre spiritual bonafides of their Svetambara rivals, while in obsessions of a fringe religious sect, in fact lie close their somewhat grudging defense of the possibility of to the heart of the sexism that has served as a moksa for, women the Svetambara and Yapaniya rationale for the disempowerment of women in all monks are really defending their own entitlement to the spheres of life, secular and spiritual, in societies of the term "Munis". For just as the Digambaras regard their ancient East and the modern West. It is for this reason own ksullikas and aryikas only as particularly pious that I believe these jaina debates on the liberation of laywomen so they are inclined to treat Svetambara women deserve to be read not only by scholars of monks themselves as pious if pretentious laymen Eastern religion but by thoughtful people in all areas of referring to them sometimes contemptuously as scholarship including anthropology, sociology, social jainabhasas or pseudo-Jainas. Indeed given the very history, psychology, arid women's studies. Particular attitudes expressed in the Jaina literature and in the attention to these texts and what they tell us about, other Indian traditional-texts towards women it is the profoundly misogynistic attitudes that lie at the heart difficult to believe that the monkish authors on both of the major religions originating in the Near East and sides of the issue could have regarded women in and South Asia should, I think, also be given by the authors for themselves as sufficiently interesting to sustain so of contempt feminist studies of these religions and their intense a debate for so many centuries. More likely, organizational structure. this debate on the question of the possibility of [Lesson Seveteen Next Issue] strimoksa was at least to some extent a kind of 76-C, Mangal Flat No. 15, 3rd Floor, Rafi Ahmed Kidwai protracted metaphor for a struggle over the spiritual Road, Matunga, Mumbai-400019. Mo: 96193/79589 validity of the two paths of Jains mendicancy 98191 79589. Email: kaminigogri@gmail.com themselves.
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________________ 42 PRABUDDHJEEVAN MAY 2017 THE STORY OF UDAYAN MANTRI By Dr. Renuka Porwal In Jainism, the renowned King Kumarpal of Solanki dynasty is proudly referred to while singing the MangalArati in the front of the Tirthankaras. He had a noble virtuous chief minister Udayan, who had served the nation since the time of King Siddharaj. In the 12th century, King Siddharaj built a town Karnavati in memory of his father Karnadeva. The growth and rise of Jainism began by Udayan in this newly formed Karnavati in Gujarat state. He worked hard under the reign of both Solanki Kings. Udayan was an ordinary merchant staying at Vaghara near Jalore in Rajasthan. He and his wife Suhadevi both moved to Gujarat when they came to know about the flourishing city of Karnavati. The city was developing very fast as it had better economic prospects. The couple - Udayan and Suhadevi reached Karnavati after a long hard journey from Rajasthan. They did not know anyone, so first they went to a Jaina shrine for darshan. There they met a religious lady, Sravika Lachchhi who took them to her house. Later on she offered them an old house for shelter. Udayan started a small business. Luck favoured him and he earned a good amount of money. They were happy in Karnavati and planned to renovate their house. While digging the ground, they came across a hidden treasure. Since Udayan was very honest, he rushed to Sravika Lachcchi and offered her the treasure. Sravika refused to accept the same as she had gifted the house to him, so the treasure too belonged to him. Udayan then started a large scale business and soon became the richest man in Karnavati. In 1120 A.D. he received good status and position as the governor of Khambhat from the King Siddharaj which later on was continued by Kumarpal. As suggested by Queen Mother Minaladevi, he abolished the pilgrimage tax. His loyalty towards Solanki kings was unquestionable. He also helped Acharya Hemachandra to hide Kumarpal from the killers sent by Siddharaj. After the death of Siddharaj, Kumarpal became the King of Gujarat. Once Kumarpal sent Udayan to overpower a gangster in Saurashtra. For this purpose he had to pass through Palitana, where he went for darshana. On top of the hill, there was a wooden shrine, where he saw a mouse moving around with a lit cotton-batti in his mouth. He immediately recovered it and realising the dangerous situation of the wooden temple, vowed to construct a new marble shrine. His image on camel back can be seen in Papa-punya-nibari, on the way to the main shrine at Palitana. Udayan used his wealth to expand Jainism. He constructed several Jaina shrines at Khambhat, Dholaka, Karnavati, etc. He couldn't survive his encounter with the gangster in Saurashtra. Before he died, he took a promise from his four sons - Ambad, Bahad, Chahad and Sollak, that they would renovate the shrine of Palitana. The pair of King Kumarpal and his minister Udayan contributed much to promote Jainism. The story of brave minister Udayan always inspires us. THE PRAYER The fewer the words, the better the prayer. To be spiritual is not to reject reason, but to go beyond it. Retual is the way we carry the presence of the secred. Ritual is the spark that must not go out. Worship is the highest act of which man is capable. It not only stretches him byond all the limits of his finite self to affirm the devine depth of mystery and holiness in the living and eternal God, but it opens him at the deepest level of his being to an act which unites him most realistically with his fellow man. Prayer, the act of worship, takes a passing moment something smaller and makes it last forever. * A single grateful thought towards heaven is the most complete prayer
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________________ MAY 2017 PRABUDHH JEEVAN PAGE No. 43 Udayan Mantri - By Dr. Renuka Porwal, Mob.: 098218 77327 Udayan was an ordinary merchant from Vaghara near Jalore. He and his wife Suhadevi both moved to Karnavati to earn their livelihood. First they went to a Jaina shrine for darshan. There they met a Sravika Lachchhi who offered them an old house for shelter. While digging to renovate their house, they came across a hidden treasure. Honest Udayan offered it to Sravika Lachcchi, which she refused to accept. With that money, he started a full scale business. He was appointed as the governor of Khambhat by the King Siddharaj and also by King Kumarpal. He abolished the pilgrimage tax as suggested by Queen Mother Minaladevi. VONOV Once at Palitana, he saw a mouse moving with a lit cotton-batti. Realising the danger to the wooden temple, he vowed to replace it with marble. An encounter with a gangster proved fatal for him, but before death he took a promise from his four sons-Ambad, Bahad, Chahad and Sollak that they would renovate the shrine of Palitana.
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________________ Licence to post Without Pre-Payment No. MR/TECH/WPP-36/SOUTH/2017, at Mumbai-400 001. Regd. With Registrar of Newspapers for India No. MAHBIL/2013/50453 Published on 16th of every month & Posted at Patrika Channel sorting office Mumbai-400 001 On 16th of every month 0 Regd. No. MCS/147/2016-18 PAGE No. 44 PRABUDHH JEEVAN MAY 2017 nAnakaDA jIvanamAM badhA ja anubhavo meLavavA zakya nathI tyAre anyanA anubhavomAMthI zIkhavAnI apekSA rahe te svAbhAvika che. tethI ApaNe zarU karI che aMtima patranI zreNI, 'jo hoya mAro A aMtima patra to...' 'paMthe paMthe pAtheya 'no vistAra Aje vidvAnonI kalamanA anubhava tarapha dorI rahyo che. zabdo, e manuSyanI gerahAjarImAM paNa sAkSAtkAra karAvatAM rahe che. ApaNI AsapAsa ciMtako, sAhityakAro, mImAMsako, yogIo sahunI hAjarI, hRdayane zAtA Ape che. jIvananA anubhavo-samRddhine vidvAno kayA zabdomAM ApaNI pAse mukI Ape ? ane potAnA prabuddha vAcako pAse svajana banI hRdaya ThAlave che, vicAro vahetA kare che ane anubhavo sIMcIne vArasArUpe ApaNane kevI anupama bheTa Ape che, te A kaTArano uddeza che. -taMtrI 'jo hoya mAro A aMtima patra to...' je kaMI karI zakAya te karo - je kaMI thAya te thavA do! caMdrakAMta zeTha | mArA jIvanano aMtima patra hoya ke jarAye halacala nahIM karavA devAnI - zAMta amAro khela pUro thayo; tame tamAro pATha DAyarInuM pAnuM hoya to temAM huM zuM lakhI javA ja rAkhavAnI! kalama pakaDanArA AMgaLAMneya bhajavatAM bajavatAM khela cAlu rAkho ane icchuM te jANavAnI tamArI apekSA che. kahevAnuM: 'tameya baddhAMjali ja raho ! kazuM raMgamaMcano raMga sone mANI levAnI moja khare khara to bahena, jema jema umaranAM lakhavuM nathI; kazuM kahevuM nathI. mUMgA mUMgA je akabaMdha rahe mATe je kaMI karI zakAya te karo vajaniyAM mArA pallAmAM khaDakAtAM jAya che, kaMI paMDamAM ane paMDane vize thayAM kare te - je kaMI thAya te thavA do.' umerAtAM jAya che tema tema mane pAchA vaLIne anubhavatA raho! ane AvuMye je keTaluMka ApaNane A duniyAnA raMgamaMca para siMhAvalokananI rIte je kAMI jIvana pasAra anubhavAya che te mATe bhagavAna pratye khelamAM utAranAranI to makasada mane A ja karyuM tenuM jhalakadarzana karI levAnuM mana thAya che kRtajJatAnI lAgaNI UbharAya te UbharAvA lAge che: 'The show must go on...' ane mane tyAre ema thAya che - kharo khela do. je kaMI ApaNA thakI thAya che e 'sAMIyAM ApaNA jIvananA copaDAmAM chelle pAne cAlyo ApaNo! bhagavAne kharo ramADyo! se saba kucha hotA hai' - e rIte pratIta thAya paNa AvA ja zabdo vAMcavA maLe e ja mane gopAle gajabano nacAvyo ! keTakeTalA svAda che ne ApaNane ApaNA hovApaNA (being) to iSTa lAge che. guman bhavatuI *** ane keTakeTalA raMga ! kevA kevA saMga ane kevA tathA thavApaNA (becoming)nI sArthakatA 9-bI, puzvara phleTsa, kevA saMbaMdha ! kyAM kyAM caDyA ne kevuM kevuM samajamAM Ave che. ApaNe A duniyAmAM galabAI TekarA para.. paDyA ! keTaluM bhUkhyA ne keTaluM bhUlyA ! lAge AvyAM ane tenA kAraNe je kaMI thayuM temAM amadAvAda-380015, che bhavanI bhavAIno eka khela to mArA kevaLa ApaNI ja IcchA hatI evuM zA mATe gharano phona : 26300928. nimitte ja bhajavAI gayo ! have zuM? mAnavuM? ApaNI icchAmAM AsapAsa zabdo ja zabdo - Words.... paramAtmAnI icchAno ja paDagho Words... paNa aNInI paLe kAma Ave evA pAmI na zakAya ? ApaNe kAmagarA zabdo keTalA? kyAreka ema paNa ApaNI "eksapAyarI DeTa' thAya che ke 'mauna sarvArthasAdhanam" AMkhakAna vagere AvatAM jyAre ahIMthI vidAya jJAnendriyone je jhIlavuM hoya te jhIle - je thazuM tyAreya eTaluM ja batAvavAnuM grahavuM hoya te grahe; ApaNe to jIbhane thaze ke amAro paDado paDyo, Postal Authority Please Note: If Undelivered Return To Sender At 33, Mohamadi Minar, 14th Khetwadi, Mumbai-400004. Printed & Published by Pushpaben Chandrakant Parikh on behalf of Shri Mumbai Jain Yuvak Sangh and Printed at Fakhri Printing Works, 312/A, Byculla Service Industrial Estate, Dadaji Konddev Cross Rd, Byculla, Mumbai-400 027. And Published at 385, SVP Rd., Mumbai-400004. Temporary Add.: 33, Mohamadi Minar, 14th Khetwadi. Mumbai-400004. Tel.: 23820296. Editor:Sejal M. Shah.