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43. Who Is That Guide ?
Sadhvi Shri Nomashriji Muktimandir Jain Upashraya, Vaniavad, Vejalpur, Bharuch
At the tender age of 6, I was initiated with my worthy mother Vejbai. We were residents of Dumara (Kutch) but destiny gave to us the observance of Charitradharma.
In a process of austerity and self-control for 74 years, to-day I am 80. Still, the healthiness and alertness of all the five senses and an alert physique are such that they will put to shame even a young man of 25. This is all due to the boon of the famed Panchamangal Shrutaskandha and that only!
All the sublime desires that I entertain in the mind get fulfilled, as if without any effort, due to the Navakara Mantra! I have not experienced any obstacle in the propitiation of the three jewels in my life full of self-control. This is because I was a child of six when I took Diksha and there is no touch whatsoever of the materialism of the mundane world! The supreme Mantra is the only means of the Siddhis. Only that is the medicine in this life; it is that leads one fearlessly down the jungle of mundane life!
In the course of this life of celibacy for 74 years, I have moved from village to village and town to town. My life is made stainless by right vision.
Once it happened that we were in the Bihar state, the land of bliss of the Tirthankar Bhagavantas. Then there were no roads as we have to-day. We were expected to pass through deserts and forests. Once we happened to enter a terror-striking deep forest. Dogs were running on
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