Santbal A Saint with a Difference

SR No.: 001181
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: T U Mehta
Publisher: Navjivan Prakashan Mandir
Publication Year: 1996
Total Pages: 152
Language: English
Classification: Book_English & Biography
File Size: 9 MB

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(6) Carried out researches in Ambar Charakha (multi- spindles spinning wheel) and card structure and use of electric power.
(7) Encouraged free labour participation by people in digging new wells and ponds.
(8) Conducted “Lok Adalats” for settlement of village disputes through “People's Courts”.
(9) Hundreds of patients are freeely treated in Eye camps periodically arranged at Gundi Diagonistic and Treatment camps, camps for tooth care and ear-nose- throat are often arranged.
(10) Every year hundreds of children and their families are helped under C.C.F.(Christian Children Fund — an international organisation) and are looked after for their health, education and progress in life. (11) Gundi Ashram runs primary and middle schools with
mol iwith: arrangements for their lodging and boarding.
(12) The Ashram runs a hospital also.
The institution runs two periodicals — a bi-weekly named Vishwa-Vatsalaya and a monthly called Prayog Darshan, and has many publications to its credit. Many of them are the works of Santbalji himself. They include his Acharang, Uttaradhyayan and Dasha Vaikalik, which are the commentaries on Jain Sutras and “Gita Darshan”, “Ramayan”, “Mahabharat","Bhagawat" — books on Hinduism.
Some of the publications by his devotees have been award winners. They are Santbaljini Jivan Sadhana by Shri Dulerai Matalia, Rat Pan Radi Padi by Shri Navalbhai Shah, Shuddhi Prayogna Safal Chitro by Shri Ambubhai Shah and Mari Abhinav Diksha by Kum. Kashiben Mehta.
This summary gives a bare idea of the scope and amplitude of the constructive work started by the inspiration of Santbalji in the rural area of Bhal-Nal-kantha.
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