Anandrushi Abhinandan Granth

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

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Jul 943 31 श्रीआनन्दा अन्यश्रीआनन्दग्रन्थ
2 Satish Kumar Jain
Venerable Acharya Anand Rishi, the 75 years old, the successor to Late great Acharya Sh. Atama Ram Ji Maharaj, birth-celebate turned spiritual gaint has deservedly won credit as the Redeemer-Acharya who has imparted a dynamic and staunch leadership to. The All India Sthanakvasi Jain Sråmana Sangb, popular with the masses assisted by a young band of literate saints, the uncrowned king of the vast realms of the Spirit, the neculeus of devotion and reverence of rank and file, a source of wisdom and knowledge, a revealer of truth, Divinity incarnate, perfection of the Divine in Man endowed with innate greatness invested with perfections innumerable effulgence of pure spirit, independant, fearless, immutable, immaculate, philosopher and Guide, the best of the best certainly he is as towering a personality as the six foot two inches of a person.
Rev. Acharya Anand Rishi is really a wonderful man, the prophet of the new era, a smithy of his soul certainly ranks the chief among a shining galaxy of the bearers of Light. Perhaps asceticism comes naturally to his genius ; had from an early age he is a meticulous observer of JIN VANI (The Divine Voice). In his childhood he was never naughty who carried fictitious tales, Soberiety and Stoicity were seen conspiculously in him. He often sat like a Yogi in state of transcendental meditation in the preaching Hall. The organisers were flabbergasted to scan his unfailing devotion in religion and his immutable sitting at the preaching Hall led them to foretell the glamourous extraordinary future of this would be redeemer of the suffering mankind. The people generally equated him with tender-aged Ayvanta Kumar of Jainistic World and also thought him to be a reversed-image of Dhruva in Vaidic World. He achived the holy Acharyaship by the sheer force of a magnificent godly halo of his pious personality, by his astute recondite scholarship, by his untired and dauntless devotion to hard work and by his astounding competence and talent. He represents the soul of India yearning for peace and harmony. He is in the line of great sevants and seers of the Sramana Heritage who have acted as the saviours of confused humanity. He raises his voice to reinforce the intrinsic values and high ideals expounded by Lord Mahavir in a new idiom to combat disintegration and decadence set in by the oppressive wordly situations. It was the hey-day in the annals of the Sramana Heritage when he was placed on the highest seat of Acharya. His is the supermost seat of honour for that he is the patron and soverign.
Honourable Acharya is an errant Karma Yogi. Almost the whole of India has been conscectrated with a hallow touch of his lotusfeet. He has been propagating enthusiastically the holy commandments of Lord Mahavira untiringly and incessently for the last so many years on the length and breadth of India. The people of every state in India is a true devotee of the sacred feet. of Acharya Anand Rishi, where ever he goes people flock there to catch the holy sight of his divine figure, the whole spiritual community hails him with warm recepetion accords a big ovation of their sincere homage at his divine feet. Incidentally, I am reminded of a sumptuous yet sober welcome