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mentor Shri Kailash Chand Jain in which he invited us to a diksha due to take place at Green Park, New Delhi, on the 16th of February 1992, and to which he had been nominated the convener.
At that time, the word diksha didn't mean anything to us. Thus what was to unroll before our eyes during those memorable two days in February 1992 gave us the notion of a colourful Shakesperian enactment. Someone, not just anyobody but a highly successful 60-year-old owner of a big construction company and respected head of a large and happy family had come to the conclusion, guided by his faith in the teaching of Mahavira and aided by an energetic young Digambar monk, Muni Amit Sagar, to bid farewell to all his possessions and privileges and seek ordination into monkhood for lite.
Through such acts of renunciation it was, undergone by great sages in an age long past, that the religion now known as Jainism took roots and began to grow and blossom. This in turn provides today's followers of Mahavira with
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