Bhavana Sataka

Author(s): A S Gopani, Dharmshila Mahasati, Girishkumar P Shah Pandit
Publisher: Labhubhai P Mehta

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going to be a bulky one, in the midst of ever-soaring prices for the newsprint. Again, the gloom covered my mind. But then, S'ri Girishkumar came, who is my trusted friend ever ready to help when help was needed. He is a profound scholar of Sanskit, Prakrit and Jain Philosophy as well as wonderfully energetis and enthusiastic. He opened the topic to Mahasatiji Dharmashilaji to whom I was also known.
Mahasatiji Dharmashilaji welcomed S’ri Girishkumar's suggestion that the book be printed but only in part, that is to say, the English translation only of the hundred S’lokas with an Appendix of thirty-three S'lokas to the exclusion of every thing else. This is what they both decided and I approved of it.
Thus, the book sees the light of the day, though only a fragment of it. The reading public has to be thankful to both of them as much as it should be to me, if at all.
There is no denying the fact that the book will play its role very well in engendering in the mind and heart of the readers the spiritual attitude, aptitude, and outlook and also in strengthening them, if at all they are already there. On my part, I must say I am overjoyed to see a fraction of my book in print which I wrote three and a half decades back.
Thanks to all those who have played their part in the publication of this book !
Amritlal Gopani.
BOMBAY - 400 056. Dated : 12-4-1984.
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