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SHIVIR-SADHANA
Conditions change! No more sane living in a
Gurukul! Shivirs now partly serve to make good
what is gone. The system grows; all kinds of shivirs, With different aims are held, on different
grounds. Jain Vishva Bharati, the harbinger of
awakening, Promotes sadhana-shivirs, when and
wherever possible; Ten-day shivirs, or 7-day; peaceful
meditation! Campus repose, free from all commotion!
Q. The gurukul tradition is now extinct. But need is felt - even today for the kind of personality that was evolved there. Do we have any substitute to make up for the lost tradition?
Ans. The system of gurukul is gone. It is not acceptable
- to modern sensibilities. Freedom today has found
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