Anandrushi Abhinandan Granth

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

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Acharya Anand Rishijee-"A Redeemer of the Modern Wasteland"
presented to him during his tour to PUNJAB when he paid a holy visit to Jullundur City for the first time. There was a big maddening crowd which received him in sombre robes and bare-footed. The special articles and editorials were published in his honour by the leading papers of the city. The grandeur and splendour of the Morning Prayers' were beyond description. A mammoth congregation was seen diving deep in the sea of Bhakti at his holy. feet in the preaching hall during his stay in the city. He is Par-excellence in the art of rhetoric. His holy discourses contain mellifluous voice with a dignified calmness of his liberal vision. He has the knack of creating an hyponotique effect on the audience by the virtue of his sugary-sweet voice. His utterances contain the kernels of sagacious wisdom. His thoughts are perspicuous in tone which are packed with scintillating epigrams along with its aphoristic terseness. He dislikes verbosity and superfluous hair-splilting in his formal talk. His intelligentsia never suffers from the fog of dogmatic rituals. He always speaks in idioms and expressions easily intelligible to the lowest and the humblest members of the community and his, religious sermons, least hackneyed and sterotyped, are brought home to the very hearts of his followers in homely phrases and anecdotes culled from the world wide knowledge and experiences. He never passes bitter, harsh sarcastic remarks on others, Men assemble to listen to his divine voice. His speech is like the "voice of many waters" that can be heard from a great distance which is termed as Jinavani (The voice of God.)
Lord Mahavira preached and propagated his holy instructions in Prakrit, A gigantic store of the Jain Scripture is found written mainly in Prakrit. Like aged old ancestor-Acharyas, Acharya Anand Rishi is also an aspirant preacher of this divine language which has largely been enriched, rejuvenated and renovated and by his skilful erudition. His literary works in Prakrita must be classed with the greatest literary out put of Acharyas of the antiquity. The posterity will always enlogise and felicit his literary contribution to Prakrit in good respect. Acharya Anand Rishi is also a reputed author, a prolific writer, fully enlightened enchanting singer of the tune of Universalism. He has a stern command over a half-dozen languages. Near about fifteen of the books have been written as well as adapted in to translations which is one of the greatest ventures on his esteemed part. By writing books he has opened the new vistas of our knowledge. His classical masterpieces have been largely commended by the scholars for his versatile knowledge of Scriptures and the stylish way of expression in them. Being a devotee of the goddess of learning he has founded two and a half score of Vidaya Mandirs '(The temples of spiritual learning) throughout in the country where spiritual instructions are imparted to innumerable seekers after renunications the glorious traditions set by him in the efforescence and promulgation of the spiritual knowledge through these Vidaya Mandirs can not be under rated in the parochiol confinements of the inedquate expression. The inner qualitative divine being of his personality appears to be characterised by a deep seated considency. Neither by any novel way of life, as we know, does he ever strive to give himself the airs of Saint or an inspired
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