Tulsi Prajna 1992 04

SR No.: 524570
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Parmeshwar Solanki
Publisher: Jain Vishva Bharati
Publication Year: 1992
Total Pages: 130
Language: Hindi
Classification: Magazine, India_Tulsi Prajna, & India
File Size: 6 MB

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TULSI-PRAJNA, April-June, 1992
He has not only permitted us all to attend these great gatherings, but has also granted us some of his valuable time in private audience, when he answered our enquiries.
We have been greatly interested in the principles of the devoted Sadhus and Sadhvis, who keep a mental enclosure away from the affairs of the material world, in order to attain spiritual advancement of the soul. We have observed the daily routine, the method of making their own utensils (most beautifully decorated), of writing their own sacred scriptures, of sewing, of making brushes all from We materials given by the people to whom they give their messages. We have seen have been present when these Sadhvis begged food. that they are welcomed to the kitchens by the ladies of the houses and that the nuns reject a large amount of the food freely offered, but the monks and nuns only take sufficient for their individual needs for one day only. They are therefore not in the least like ordinary beggars. In fact at one gathering of above ten thousand laymen and women, several laymen chanted a song of invitation begging His Holiness to decide to return to Sardarshahr another year.
We have also seen those who want to be initiated after long testing, praying to be allowed to join the Sadhus and Sadhvis in full sight of all their neighbours and with the written permission from their relatives. The shining eyes of monks and nuns and their replies show how happy they are.
We have been privileged to be accepted almost as member of this most brotherly and sisterly family. We do thank the President of the Sabha Seth Chhogmal Chopra and Seth Nemchand Pincha, M.L.A., Bikaner and many other members of the Executive Committee of the Sabha for their very courteous invitation to attend these memorable functions. Neither Lady Spens, Mr. and Mrs Gupta and their children, nor I will ever forget these happy days.
Seth Budhmal Dugar and his family have very kindly given us the hospitality of his guest house and we have also much enjoyed visiting the ladies in many other houses, where we felt that we have been welcomed into friendship.
There is a Punjabi Proverb 'From one lamp a thousand can be lit'. From the glowing lamp of your Acharya's teaching and example many holy lives are lit. May your spirit of peace and followship spread throughout India."
-And the endless journey is going on with full swim and enthusiasm, taking likeminded people and torch bearers together or walking alone, under the able leadership of Aņuvrat Anushasta, Yuga Pradhan Acharya Shri Tulsi. -PARMESHWAR SOLANKI