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FOREWORD Venerable Gurudev Upadhyaya Amar Muni was a great seer and enlightened thinker of the spiritual world. His exceptional life-vision, heightened intuition and compassion kept him forever alert. An analytic mind, extraordinary qualities and the initiative to awaken the dormant potential made him a spiritual revolutionary of the highest order.
If complete detachment towards life made him a Yogi, then keen comprehension of the ancient religious texts and a true understanding of reality made him a super saint.
Whether he was dealing with a familial context or social institution, industrial development or spiritual pilgrimage, a conflicting world of political policies or religious laws - his inner capacity, creativity and energy to reach the deeper truths of all fields made him a literary genius. His literary masterpieces are but a peep into his holistic understanding and potential.
"APARIGRAHA DARSHAN" is one such literary work which has the dual power to cross over centuries and see Tirthankara Mahavira and at the same time, give us an insight into our present lives.
Wealth is not an obstacle to spiritual life. Rather, it can well be a means to progress, he said. If one could only place one's feet firmly on the steps of the ladder of life and move on upwards, then one can be said to have traversed and conquered those steps, those 'means' towards upward progress. In the path of Sadhana, one ought not to cling to the 'sadhan' or means - this is the path of non-possessiveness.
Non-violence, truth, non-stealing, celibacy and non
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