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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Shree Shankeshwar Parshvnath Deraaser
Chunnabbat-Kurla
never let his flame of progress get extinguish at any stage...! For the one, who have done a reasonable study of his life knows very well that his attributes, his nature, his behavior and his spiritual progress was clearly indistinguishable
with a dignity. Looking upon his generosity, his compassion, his foresight and his way of thinking, even the earth beneath might have been feeling itself the most fortunate to have received the opportunity for providing the support to an incompatible legend of the era.
He was surely not a person for whom anyone might even think to criticize, but still an individual, who might have incurred heavy sins in the past, disparaged him for an insensible reason in the mass media. Actually the story behind the scene or the point of his claim was that Dharmasuri Maharaj had done 16 Chaturmas continuously in the same city of Mumbai. Right from the year of VS 2016 to 2032/ 1960 to 1976, he had spent a series of 16 monsoons in a row in a single location of the dream city...! So what? Even we find the people spending 40-50 years in a single area... if they aren't censured, why was Dharmasuri Maharaj? The people, who are not so familiar with the ethics of a Sadhu's life, might surely raise this question...
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But our scriptures say, "Samvaccharam vaa vi param pamaanam, biyam cha vaasam na tahim vasijjaa..." The life of a Sadhu is a life of non- attachment. He remains away from his family, from the comforts, from the leisure, just to become free
Temples formed with the inspiration of Dharmasuri Maharaj
from the attachment of the materialism as it's the only way for achieving salvation. Just as the water that remains still for a long time becomes distilled, if a Sadhu stations in a particular area without reason for more than a year, there's a possibility that he might get attached with the locality and favorable mediums of comfort and pleasures available there... Hence, our scriptures have advised the Sadhu to roam continuously from one place to another, and keep on changing the location so that he remains unattached and pure just like the flowing water of the river!
After reading this content, don't you feel that our ancestors who drafted these scriptures, possessed such a great Foresight that their assumption and prescriptions always remain practical, no matter in which ever age we belong to? And just imagine, how bad it feels when the generation of today names its principles and statements as illogical / impractical /false, just for the reason that they fail to receive satisfactory answers to their queries? Being a youngster, even my mind raises plenty of questions towards numerous aspects of Jainism, but if sometimes I don't receive a reasonable answer, I always maintain the trust in my mind that whatever is written in the scriptures is always the truth and if it's signified in it, one day I may even receive a meaningful explanation over it!
Well! We were discussing about the norms framed by our scriptures for an ascetic that he must not remain in a particular place, without reason, for more than the desired time. So, after looking at this, don't you feel that the individual had done no mistake what so ever by carping Dharmasuri Maharaj who stayed for such a long time in the capital city of Maharashtra