Manav Jatine Jain Dharmni Bakshish

SR No.: 004981
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Bhuvanbhanusuri
Publisher: Divya Darshan Trust
Total Pages: 80
Language: Gujarati
Classification: Book_Gujarati
File Size: 4 MB

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Post-Script
It is interesting to note by way of a foot note that as soon as the Rev. Acharya had finished his above speech, the then Vice-Chancellor of the Banaras Sanskrit University, Dr. Sampurnanand, who, it will be recalled, had become the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh afterwards, was very much impressed by the importance of the five vows of cessation from various activities known in Jainism as Virati Dharma and hence he himself went over to the Rev. Acharya and requested him to give him a small pledge whereby he could observe the vow of cessation and when the Acharya administered the oath to him, Dr. Sampurnanad profusely thanked the great Acharya.
Dr. Sampurnanand also said in the course of his vote of thanks that the most important thing that the Rev. Acharya had pointed out in his speech was about the vows of cessation from various activities. Besides, Dr. Sampurnanand went on to narrate an incident from his personal life which in short is like this:
It so happened that Dr. Sampurnanand was confined to bed with a short illness and the doctor examined him and gave him a few tablets to be swallowed. But, as the patient, i.e., Dr. Sampurnanand, had not taken a pledge to avoid taking medicines made from living beings or animals, so he didnot inquire, before taking the tablets, as to the substance from which the tablets had been made. However, Dr. Sampurnanand adds that if at that time he had taken a pledge or vow to cease from taking anything made from living beings or animals, he would surely have first inquired about the ingredients from which the tablets had been made and then only he would have taken the tablets.