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Shri Mahavir Jain Aradhana Kendra
www.kobatirth.org
Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
The Publishers' Note
During the Chaturmas we get rains. So also during he Chaturmas discourses rain from the sacred tongue of the Gurumaharaj. Just as rain-water gets collected in a lake, if the discourses are collected in the form of a book, even after the Gurudev goes to other places like the cloud that moves to other places to favour them with rain, those disciples who are desirous of getting intellectual and spiritual enlightenment can read the collection and seek light from it.
It is this idea that inspired Sri Arunodaya Foundation to publish this book "Awakening" which is an English version of Prathibodh a collection in Hindi of the sacred discourses of Parampujya, Prathahsmaraniya, Acharyapravaril, Sadgurudev Srimath Padamasagar Soorishwarji Maharaj Saheb.
We are extremely grateful to His Excellency, Shri Govind Narain, Governor of Karnataka, Bangalore for having written a preface to the book.
We thank Mr. K. Ramappa, Head of the Department of English St. Joseph's College, Bangalore-1 for having rendered "Prathibodh" into English.
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