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MAHA DE OL AL SARA O GI
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Mahadeolal Saraogi, whose birth centenary falls this year - 1992, was born in Rajgarh, a small town in Rajasthan. Mahadeolal's father, Babu Daluramji Saraogi, was a noted trader of Calcutta. Mahadeolalji joined his father's business at a very early age. Though not much of formal education, Mahadeolalji had an enquiring and reflective mind, which indeed led him to ascetic life after retirement - at the age of 50. He was really on his way to renouncing the world from the age of 40 when he became a widower. Deeply religious in his innate nature, Mahadeolalji wanted diffusion of the religious temperament with emphasis on the discovery of truths contained in our Shastras. He spent most of his time at the feet of Shri Tulsiji, the Jain Acharya, whose New Dispensation for all has been Anuvrat Movement - the movement for application of the doctrine of small vows. This way of life - of meditation and self-effacement in search of the Eternal - came to be followed by his eldest son, Ramkumar Saraogi, also at an early age.
recognition of Ramkumar's role, he was awarded by Acharya Shri Tulsi, the distinction of 'Jain Ratnam' a year before his Maha Samadhi - in 1991.
Meanwhile Mahadeolalji's family was making strides in the social arena. One of his sons, the Late Pannalal Saraogi became a Member of the First and Second Legislative Council, West Bengal, and then secured a berth in the
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