Treasure Of Qualities Introduction to Inspiring Life of Acharya Vijaydharmsuri Maharaj

SR No.: 007775
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Prashamratnavijay
Publisher: Dharmkrupa Trust
Total Pages: 113
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 15 MB

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Temples formed with the inspiration of Dharmasuri Maharaj
Shree Chandraprabha Swami Deraasar
Surat
that demand high efforts and even after having a tiring day, have no Dunlop's for comfortable sleep! They have to rest the whole night having just layers of 2 thin clothes between the floor and their body! Adopting a lifestyle of a NonJain monk is still easy, but it's not the play of effeminate to practice the ethics of a Sadhus' life! Dharmasuri Maharaj was one of those strongly determined Jain Sadhu...
In VS 2011/1945, Dharmasuri Maharaj was concluding his vihar from Vadodara to Mumbai, passing by the interior regions of Southern Gujarat. Crossing the villages of PaadraKarjan and Paalej, he reached Nikora, which was linked with the history of Jainism, as, an enormous amount of ancient literature was scripted here some around 500 years ago, by a pre-eminent saint Pujya Mahopaadhyay Shri Yasho Vijayji Maharaj. But in the late afternoon, both the gurudev, PuPratapsuri Maharaj and Dharmasuri Maharaj noticed the poojari of the temple lifting a heavy bag of papers on his back. He was carrying it off to dump in the Narmada River. They stopped the poojari in between and commenced investigating the bag to verify, whether there's any valuable page on matter choked up between the useless stuff or not! And they were amazed to find that there, were some 3 - 4 manuscript pages of Pu. Yashovijayji Maharaj in it! They scolded the poojari for carelessly dumping such valuable pages without any sort of prior inquiry. The old poojari was a noble ignorant village. He confessed, "Gurudev! I apologize for my mistake, but to inform you, such pages are being already dumped in great
numbers in Narmada, some years ago. That room which you see empty was filled with dumpable able stuff before. Don't know how much literature you might have lost of that dignitary!" Both the gurudev's eyes were filled with tears out of sorrow, hearing the painful details from the poojari! They provided some necessary instructions to the Shravak to take care for this in the future...
With a heavy heart, they resumed their vihar in which they crossed Mangleshwar- Shuklatirth-Zagadiyatirth and reached Maandva. The village clock showed the time of 9 am in the month of Mid-May, when it seemed like if the sun had turned furious on the earth and was showering the hot burning rays like Fire! The weather forecast of Gujarat had named it the record breaking hottest day as according to them; there was the temperature of 47 Celsius, Which was found for the very first time till then in the state of good Virtues! Imagine what difficulty they might have experienced creating out such a great exertion in the early morning without taking even a drop of water in the killing temperature of hot summer! And in those days, it wasn't possible for a Sadhu to send prior messages of his arrival in the forward locations and hence it was near to impossible for him to receive the boiled water as soon as he reaches! He had to wait at least 1-30-2 hours for drinking water even after reaching
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