________________
Foreword
"God sent His Singers upon earth With songs of sadness and of mirth, That they might touch the hearts of men And bring them back to heaven again. [Longfellow ].
>>
Muni Maharaja Nyayavijayaji is one of the greatest of the Jaina monks,-he is a singer sent on earth by God, with a view that he might rouse the dozing and yawning society, which has been becoming a ghost of modern civilization, to a sense of duty and religion, by pouring down into its ears the sweet and holy tunes of music from the lyre of his nonsectarian religious preaching.
Jivana-Hitam is one of the lustrous jewels presented by Muni Shri Nyayavijayaji to the public in general. The sweet Sanskrita verses composed by Munishri himself, have an inscrutable magic about them, which secretly guides us on to the path advantageous to our life's glorification. Who can ever forget the verses on the female-education and on Brahmacharya? As far as my personal experience goes, these verses have left on my youthful brain a permanent and lasting impression, which the dirt of modern civilization wil never be able to brush off.
The westernizing modern society is right on the way to its decline. It is only through the wide circulation of such non-sectarian religious pre-ching that we may ever hope for its rise, through the misty atmosphere of this western civilization, unwit
Aho! Shrutgyanam
