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is spotted in mother Earth Pujya gurudev could spot a good artist 'Padmaputra' Ashokbhai Kagazwala at kagal near Nipani (Maharashtra). He developed and coloured the outlines.
The renovation of Bharuch tirtha was going on. Our preceptor had ideas of Bhaktamara temple. At the time of renovation of Asvavabodha tirtha and Sakunika vihar the plans for the construction of the Bhaktamara temple were finallised. Pujya gurudev blessed me to take up these works. With the blessings of Pujya gurudev it was possible for me to take up the renovation of Bharuch temple. Ashok Bhai did the painting work - the most important part of it - in the Bhaktamara temple.
I was planning some ten years back to bring out a volume of Bhaktamara with paintings and a painter was commissioned but the work was not yet over. It required good English and Hindi translations too as without these the work may not be of much use to people not knowing Gujarati. The yantras also are to be drawn neatly with bijaksaras printed clearly and legibly. At that time Sureshbhai Ajmera was very eagerly took up this work for publication but could not proceed further for personal reasons. But he arranged the completion of the yantra work through his friend Madhuban. During this period many books were published on Bhaktamara. The Divakar Prakashan, Agra have come out with a book containing the colour pictures of Bhaktamara when I was camping at Secundrabad for my caturmasa. Muniraj Sri Nandiyas who does not think differently than I, was the moving spirit for my taking up the present work. He prodded me to take up the work in all seriousness and complete it as early as possible. But engrossed as I am in the renovations and consecrations at such ancient and sacred centres like Bharuch, Solaroad and Uvasaggaharam I could not continue my research. The renovation and consecration at Uvasaggaharam was such a grand success that I got some breathing time at the Uvasaggaharam caturmasa.
This time Sri Nandiyas instilled in the mind of Sri Jayesh of Nehaj Enterprise, Bombay the value of The Bhaktamara Stotra. Inspired by the guidance of Sri Nandiyas, Sri Jayesh approached me and offered to take up the printing. Both of them prodded me to complete the work earlier. The work progressed day by day. Sri Jayesh did a neat and good planning for the printing. His, was not just a professional interest but he did it whole heartedly and with involvement. He gave useful tips from his professional experience to enhance the value of the book. I convey my blessings to Muniraj Sri Nandiyas and Sri Jayesh for their good services in the cause of dharma.
Sri Pratap Bhai Toliya joined me at this juncture and Sri Manorathmalji Kothari too helped me. They translated The Aradhana Darshan and Rahasya Darshan into Hindi respectively. Dr. K. Srinivasan, Prof. of Sanskrit, RKM Vivekananda College Madras met me. In course of talks he gave good suggestions for the book, that really impressed me. Within no time I told him to undertake the rest of the work and to translate The Aradhana Darshan and Rahasya Darshan into English which he did and he also proved helpful in many other ways. Even amidst his busy schedule he stayed with me for more than two months and really made the work possible. Thus he became
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