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man gets the most pleasure, the most money, the most power or place, honour or fame, but that in which a man gets the most manhood, and performs the greatest amount of useful work and of human duty.
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Mr. Lallubhai M. Mehta was born in Bhavnagar on the 19th October, 1880. He belonged to a highly respectable and ancient Jain family which has made Bhavnagar its home ever since its migration to this place from Palitana, more than a hundred years ago. Mr. Motichand, the father of Lallubhai, possesses all the qualities which go to make a successful pleader, and had he only chosen to accept Law as his profession after passing his Law Examination in 1894, hẻ would have, by this time, made his name as one of the foremost pleaders of the Bhavnagar Bar; but circumstances willed it otherwise, and he decided to spend his life in the less boisterous and lucrative but more unassuming and sacred profession of a school master.
From his very childhood Lallubhai gave promise of a distinguished after-career, and his germinal qualities found a a congenial field for rapid development under the fostering and guiding care of the father, who spared no efforts on behalf of his beloved son. The child rapidly picked up his lessons in elementary education nor was the religious education of the boy neglected and the precocious young student at a very early age, imbibed all the religious ideas and. practices of the family. After an uninterrupted and brilliant career first at the Local Gujarati School and subsequently at the Alfred High School, Bhavnagar, Lallubhai passed his Matriculation Examination in 1897. The Previous and Intermediate Examinations were passed from the Samaldas College in 1898 and 1899 respectively, and Lallubhai succeeded in securing a college scholarship on account of his high rank at the Previous Examination. By his successful career, obliging
| SR No. | 022208 |
| Book Title | Adhyatma Tattvalok |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Motichand Jhaverchand Mehta |
| Publisher | Abhaychandra Bhagwandas Gandhi |
| Publication Year | 1920 |
| Total Pages | 992 |
| Language | Sanskrit, Gujarati |
| Classification | Book_Devnagari & Book_Gujarati |
| File Size | 19 MB |