Comtemporary Jain Legends

SR No.: 007736
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Atmanandji Maharaj
Publisher: Shrimad Rajchandra Ashram
Publication Year: 2015
Total Pages: 183
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, N000, & N025
File Size: 1 MB

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39. Shreddheya Shri Jinendra Varni
Shri Jinendra Varniji is an exceptional personality of this century. His life was shining with the virtues of equal respect to all religious, friendship with all living beings, study in loneliness and meditation.
Birth and Childhood: Shri Jinendra Varniji was born in 1921 at Panipat at the house of the famous advocate Shri Jay Bhagwan who was well studied in Jain, Vedic, Buddhist and other scriptures. Shri Jinendra got the leadership as an inheritance from his father. This was his great family-wealth. He got spiritual learning under Shri Roopchand Gargiya. His father loved literary activities much more than his profession of advocateship. And this came down to his son Jinendra who was much impressive. Shri Jinendra obtained the degree of engineer in Electrical and Radio science with his extra-ordinary ability to learn.
It was unusual as a result of his deeds of previous lives that his body was very weak, unhealthy and caught with various diseases right from his young age.
Business and Service: After the death of his father, he had the responsibilities of his younger brothers and he established on Industrial Company at Panipat, which became very famous because of absolute integrity and honesty of Shri Jinendra. But Jinendra had least interest in business, wealth or fame. He made his younger brothers well efficient to carry on the company and then he retired from it by entrusting the company to them. His intuition drew him in another direction. He was not keeping well and was being attacked by typhoid of and on. He was caught by Tuberculosis at the age of only 16. He was religious minded that he declined to accept non-vegetarian food and medicines made by violence even though the doctors pressed for such a treatment. At last, one of his two lungs was taken out.
Spiritual Study, Penance, Renunciation and Adoption of Vows: There was an important event in his life in 1950. Dash Laxan Paryushan was going on - a week of religious performances. He was so much attached to it that he went to temple even under heavy rains. His father Shri Jay Bhagwan was delivering a spiritual lecture there. He heard the word Brahmasmi-l am the eternal Lord and it came to be his life-long motto. He started deep study of scriptures from this moment. He made short notes as he studied scriptures and heard preachings and the great book "Jainendra Siddhanta Kosh" came out of these writings. He studied scriptures repeatedly to review and revise his notes. This was completed in 1960. He went to Songadh for special thinking and meditating in 1954-55. His tendency for renunciation and experience became stronger with the increase of his knowledge and as a result he accepted AnuVrata leaving his homelife in 1957 AD. He had absolute faith in religion, he had deep desire to study religious in depth and all this made his march on spiritual path very fast. He took advantage of the heart-felt experiences of Shri Ganesh Prasadji Varni. He spent some time in 1958 AD at the abode in Isri. He came to Benaras to have religious discourses with the men of Bharatiya Gnanpith on the subjects of Jainendra Siddhanta Kosh in 1968. Here, his arrangements were made at Maid again Inn by Shri JayKrishna Jain (MunniBabu) Shri MunniBabu desired to take Shri Jinendra for seeing several temples in Benaras but Shri Varniji told, "Brother, I do not see anything in these temples of stones. There is only exhibition of wealth. Please lead me to see the temples of living beings." Shri MunniBabu then look him to the greater than the greatest learned person Shri Gopinathji Kaviraj. Both these person had discussions and company for about one month. Shri Gopinathji said for Shri Varniji, "His heart is totally pure. There is no pride; he is a mendicant who has left his home-life. He
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