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Shri Mahavir Jain Aradhana Kendra
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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
APPENDIX
A Pilgrim of Eternity
By J. P. VASWANI
Beloved Dada* was born on November 25, 1879, in Hyderabad-Sind, a land that has given birth to many dervishes and fakirs,-contemplatives and men of renunciation.
Even as a child, he was so different from other children. He did not play the games other children played. Part of his pocket money he utilised in getting flour for making chappaties, which he distributed among the blind, the lame and the halt, who sat on the wayside. And as he saw their faces beaming with joy, he knew that loving service of the poor was, indeed, worship of God.
Sometimes, as he sat to his meals and heard the cry of a passing beggar, he would take away his food to share it with the hungry
* Sri T. L. Vaswani, in love and reverence, is called “Dadaji.” The word means "elder brother.” And Dadaji was, verily, a brother of all men, all races and religions, all nations, a brother of the berest and bereaved, a brother, too, of birds and animals, trees and flowers, stars and streams,-a brother of all crcation.
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