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FOREWORD
It is, indeed, a privilege to be asked to write a few words by way of a foreword to this special Jaico edition of Half-Hours with a Jain Munz by Shri Abdul Hamid A Baazka I write it with genuine pleasure My pleasure is all the greater because it provides me with an opportunity to pay my humble tribute to this great soul with whom I had the good fortune to spend a few half-hours myself-half-hours happy, pleasant and profitable
This spiritual biography of Mun Shri Chandraprabhsagar Maharaj gives us tantalısıng glimpses of the life and spirtual evolution of a fascinating sage, there are many gaps in it which Muniji alone can fill-If such gaps can be filled at all As one reads of the spiritual crisis in the life of the Muni, one cannot but recall the experience of Narendra (known as Vivekananda later) who lost all consciousness of the outer world while watching the Master and who fell in a trance and remained, when he regained consciousness, completely ignorant of what had happened But apart from this, buman personality 18 not a solid thing like marble, it eludes one's
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