Bhavana Sataka

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

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INTRODUCTION
The late Bharata Bhusana S'atavadhani Pandit Munis'ri Ratnachandraji Maharaja hailed from Bhorara in Cutch. His was a noble family in the Jain Community. His Parents were pious and cultured. As proficient merchants, the members of his family had established their repulation. Munis'ri had inherited from his father the riches and piety, both.
As was current in those days, specially in Cutch which was out-and-out conservative, he had no higher education. He left the school at an early age, joined business and carved out a name for himself because he had necessary requisites in abundance. His was an infant marriage as was the custom in Cutch. His love for his child-wife was simply phenomenal.
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At this time an event occurred which gave a turn his whole life. His wife died and he was overtaken with so much grief and sorrow that he made up his mind, going against the wishes of his parents and pressure from the relatives, not to remarry and to renounce the world for ever and for good.
He was bound to shine out in this new career also as he had an almost insatiable thirst for knowledge, firm faith in Jainism and in all that it stood for, photographic memory
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