Panchastikay Samaysar

SR No.: 022407
Original Sutra Author: Kundkundacharya
Author: Pannalal Bakliwal
Publisher: Paramshrut Prabhavak Mandal
Publication Year: 1905
Total Pages: 184
Language: Sanskrit, Hindi
Classification: Book_Devnagari
File Size: 18 MB

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powers there, but he could not do so, as he thought, he could not live in Europe as a pure Jain ought to live.
After such public recognition a sudden change seemed to come over him. At the age of twenty, he completely disappeared from the public gaze. He determined to use his powers and abilities for the instruction and enlightment of his community and the people at large. From his very early age he was a voracious reader. He studied the six schools of religions (acesta) and other systems of Oriental and Western philosophy. Strange though it might seem it was a fact that a book was required to be read only once in order to be digested, and without any regular study of Sanskrit and Prakrit, he could accurately understand works in those languages and explain them to others, as only learned scholars could be expected to do. Shrimad now began to inculcate his taste for knowledge in others and soon attracted a large number of disciples, whom he guided to the proper study of the Jain philosophy. He found that the Acharyas ( religious teachers) of the time held narrow and sectarian views, and did not appreciate the change of times. Again those .who renounced the world were generally lacking in some of the good things of the world, and had some reason or other to be dissatisfied with their lot in the world. Such men could not impress their congregations by their example. He believed that if a man of wealth, and social position renounced the world, he could work real good by his example; convinced of his sincerity and disinterestedness, the people would more readily follow his guidance and profit by his preaching. Holding such views, he had believed that he had not sufficiently qualified himself to appear before the public as an ascetic and a spiritual guide, and he continued steadily a man of the world, though his inclinations were all the other way.
When he was twenty-one, he took to business and in a very short time gained the credit of being a capable jeweller. The cares of a flourishing business, however, did not keep him from his favourite study of religion and philosophy. In the midst of his busy life he was quietly extending his studies and was always found surrounded by his books. Again, for some months of the year, he would leave Bombay with instructions to अने दोलते पोषाय; तथा प्रजा अने सरकार तेमने उत्तेजन आपी आगळ वधार्या वगर रहे नहीं. अत्रे पण तेमज थर्बु जोइए छे,अने तेम थशे तोज एवा नामीचा पुरुषोनो आपणामां वधारो थशे. आ वात पण तपासवा जोग ले के, एवा पुरुषो अत्यारसुधी हिंदु कोममांथीज मळी आवे छे. मोहमदन, पारसी वगेरे कोममांथी तेओ मळी आवता नथी, एनुं कारण शुं शुं एवा पुरुषो चोकस जातमांज जन्म पामे छे, अथवा वंशपरंपरा उतरे छे? ए सर्वे बाबतोनी तपास करतां अगत्यना खुलासा मळशे, अने तेथी एवा पुरुषो उत्पन्न थवानो काई नियम जणावा जोडे तमनी वृद्धि बनी प्रजाने फायदो थशे.