Awakening

Author(s): Padmasagarsuri
Publisher: Arunoday Foundation

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* बहता पानी निर्मला
बँधा सो गन्दा होय । साधू तो रमता भला
EN HAUT li” Bahatha Pani Nirmala Bandha so gandha hoye Sadhutho ramatha bhala
Dag na lagekoye !! (Flowing water is pure ; stagnant water is dirty; a wandering ascetic is not stained).
On account of this reason, after Chaturmas is over on that day, all ascetics observing the five great princi. ples proceed to other places.
The third reason is that it is the Jayanthi (the cele bration of the birth-day) of the great writer, scholar and Jain Acharya, Hemachandra Suriji who is known as Kalikala Sarvajna and who composed three crore slokas.
Heinachandra Acharya was born on Karthika purnima in Samvath 1145 and he undertook Deeksha in Samvath 1154; his original name was Changa Deva. At the time of his undertaking Deeksha he was named Somachandra. But when he acquired Sooripada (the state of an acharya) in 1166, he was named Hemachandra Acharya.
He was a genius. He became an ascetic at the age of nine and he remained austere and celibate throughout