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AN APPRECIATION
( By Chandragupta Jain B. A. Hons : B. T.
Ex-editor The Prabhat' Gujranwala )
To be weak is the true misery.
- Carlyle. Individuals become great or who have sacrificed their all and small, shine like the sun on people's themselves for the amelioration of memory or sink into the deep pit their souls and that of their brethof oblivion and are forgotten as they ren, fortune-good or bad-matters face the olds bravely
little. They go on and and live and dio for
the so-called fortune their convictions or
licks their feet in the give in and aro affee
end. They believe that ted by ovory puff of
their own Karmas wind that blows. All
make their fortune and the great men of the
rightly do they do so. world who whilo depar
such a one was Shri ting have left behind us
1008 Jainacharya Shri their footprints on the
Vijayanand Surishwarji sands of time invariably
Maharaj, the greatest had to suffer a lot to live
Jain Sadhu of modern up to their ideals. For
times, whose centenary the strong, obstacles become step- we are celebrating. ping stones to success but for the Shri Vijayanand Suri may weak, they remain but obstacles to truly be said a harbinger of great knock them down. Tolstoy observes enlightenment among the Jains. that fortune turns like a wheel, one with him set in a new era in the wan it lifts, the other it turns down. history of our religion and began But that may be true only about the renaissance of our literature. the common run of men. For those He was the first modern scholar to Shatabdi Granth ]
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