Anandrushi Abhinandan Granth

Author(s): Vijaymuni Shastri, Devendramuni
Publisher: Maharashtra Sthanakwasi Jain Sangh Puna

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Satish Kumar Jain, M.A. Jain Bhawan, Jullandbur City
Achārya Anand Rishijee-"A Redeemer of
The Modern Wasteland”
J. S. Eliot in “The Wasteland”, means over the loss of old religious values which have made the world a chaotic and dismal wasteland where people are burning in the sterile fire of lust, abhorrence and other evil passions ; where society presents a grim and nightmarish picture of Godless Society whose ethical scruples have become "a heap of broken images”; life appears to be spiritually impoverished, intellectuly degenerated, emotionally barren and mentally retarded. The so-called advanced yet God-Killing Society adorates the false and hypocritical gods of Mammon and Secularism. In utter contemptuous tone the poet depicts the pollusion of sex by the modern westelanders who have made the sanctified, sex perverted, debased, vulgarised and even commercialised to makes the "hollowmen" whimpered in despair finding no way to spiritual salvation. At the end of the poem, the poet, being a radical reformer, delivers the goods for tiding over the grave and sinister problem of spiritual-impotency and aridity caused in the Modern Westeland by referring to the source of the Indian Legend of the Thunder in the sacred book 'BRIHAD-ARANYAKA UPNISHDA'. The fable runs as. Once there was a drought over the holy antique land of India. The grief-stricken gods of the three races met the Prajapati' who spoke to them thrice in the divine Voice of Thunder in one Sanskrit word 'DA'interpreted as 'DA-Dattā (to give), 'DA'-Daydharam [to Sympathise]
-and 'DA?-Damyat' (to control). However the poem concludes on an optimistic not by suggesting that if a man obeys the triple injunction of the Prajapati, he may succeed in putting his own house in perfect order and will gain ultimately his release from a living death. The turbulent and fretful world today needs a redeemer who can save this burning Westeland by sprinkling chilly cold waters of his holy deliverances of true faith and true knowledge.
"What the eye does not admire/The heart do's not desire." The significance of this old English rhyme is realised fully when the hungry eye of an ever hankering soul of a devotee encounters the very beautiful living image of a Massaiha-a Healer who is regarded as a unique model of eternal bliss and beauty. To my mind above mentioned idea is to be said exactly about a great saint Jain Acharya Anand Rishi.
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