Atmanandji Jainacharya Janmashatabdi Smarakgranth

Author(s): Mohanlal Dalichand Desai
Publisher: Atmanand Janma Shatabdi Smarak Trust

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The Significance of man
MR. GANDHI is one of India's most prominent representatives, a profound thinker scholar and philosopher; a man of great personal charm and magnetism, and with a deeply spiritual nature, Miss Lilian Whiting, the well-known writer of Boston, says:
ll, says: " We have, as Prof. Dolbear points out,' grasped a new and transforming idea,' and we are learning to exercise a new law-the law of concentration. Under this law all things may be wrought. We are beginning to discern and establish the truths of the law. We have bardly yet learned the rudiments even of its use, but to accept the potent truth of its existence is a great step onward in the higher life. This law of concentration comprehends the most intense form of spiritual activity. It is bringing to bear all the divine power that one is capable of receiving on conditions which are as plastic to this power as clay to the touch of the artist. It is the ascension of the soul to a higher plane, from which it controls and intelligently guides its action, and this force within acts upon external conditions.
"A great opportunity for learning to grasp this law is now afforded by the presence in Boston of the Oriental mystic, Mr. Gandbi, of the University of Bombay. He was the most important delegate from India to the Parliament of Religions. His great learning, his marvelous store of spiritual truth, renders any possibility of receiving his teaching, one that cannot be made too widely known, and whose significance and infinite value cannot be too profoundly recognized."
The Boston Transcript says:
"The personality of one who expounds a strange and inflexible doctrine must necessarily be interesting, and those who have attended the lectures and classes of Mr. Gandhi in various cities, find him satisfying every requirement that is likely to be made of one who seeks to teach. While genial in manner and courteous in expressing his opinion, he is perfectly sincere in stating his beliefs and in making his fearless criticisms. At the close of each lecture or lesson he willingly answers any questions. He is an earnest and serious speaker, celving deep into the philosophies of India, of which he is one of the most able exponents that has even visited America."
Dr. William T. Harris, U. S. Commissioner of Education, in a letter to Prof. Nicholas Murray Butler, of Columbian University, says;
"I take pleasure in introducing to you my friend, Mr. Virchand R. Gandhi, the honorary Secretary of the Jain Association of India. Familiar as you doubtless are with the Buddhistic and Vedanta systems of Hindu thought which make the
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