Some Aspects of Indian Culture

SR No.: 001132
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: A S Gopani, Nagin J Shah, Dalsukh Malvania
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad
Publication Year: 1981
Total Pages: 211
Language: English
Classification: Book_English & Discourse
File Size: 15 MB

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MUNI JINAVIJAYAJI-MY TRIBUTE AND REMINISCENCES *
Ācārya Muni Jinavijayaji breathed his last in the early hours of Thursday, the 3rd June, 1976 at the ripe age of about eighty-nine, in Ahmedabad, in his own bungalow, named Anekanta Viber. He left this mortal body, only to become immortal.
He was a ksatriya by caste and belonged to a famous Rajput clan of farmers of Rajasthan. His original name was Kishan Singh and the names of his mother and father were Rajkumari and VỊddhisimbaji respectively. He was born in 1888 A.D. in the small village called Rupahalı in Mewar in the erstwhile Udayapur State. The lost his father at the tender age of eleven. A certain Yati, Devisimhji knew from his external physical signs that the boy was going to be extraordinary and this prompted him to put up a demand to Kisan's father that he be offered to him as pupil. This contact with the old, experienced Yati who was well-versed in Ayurveda and Astrology planted in the mind of Kisan the seeds of detachment which naturally drove him to join the sect of the naked Baba who was the head of a holy place which was in those days known as Sukhānandji. In course of time, he came across a Mārwarı Jain monk whom he eventually accepted as his Garu leaving the Baba in the hope that he would thereby be able to quench his thirst for knowledge. But it proved to be his delusion because the restraints of tradition turned out to be too unbearable and in one of his crucial moments he decided to bid goodbye to the customary costume of a Jain monk and he actually threw it away in the ruins on the banks of the river Kșiprd round about Ujjain. After this, he became a free bird and wandering here and there he came over to Gujarat. From here, he again went back to Marwar and accepted initiation at the hands of Muni Sundervijayaji, a Jain monk, at Poh, who hamed him as Jinavijayaji. Since he lost his father, bis pursuit for knowledge went on una bated and with full vigour during all his wanderings from one place to another. He'read as much as he could also committed to memory as much as he could. Without wasting one moment even, his worship of Goddess of Learning continued non. stop with faith, devotion and interest. From here onwards he developed and maintained throughout the test for research and editing. This devotee of learning was able and lucky enough to get in full measure, the co-operation and good will of such savants as Pandit Sukhlalji and Muni Kanti Vijayaji. Those are, ipdead, fortunate who have seen Panditji and Muniji, the two stalwarts in their own lines, talking, laughing and cracking.jokes and Folishing them. Titan is only one, but here we see two. Muniji's struggle and strenuous
Puðlished in the Bharatiya Vidyā, Vol. XXXV; (Nos. 1 to 4), 1978.