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of Navrangpura and Ahmedabad made Muni Chandrakant Sāgarji s dream come true. They constructed the temple and named it Navrangpura Mandir. For those in search of an oasis of calm, it provided a quiet space to study and meditate silently. The donors invited Gurudev to stay in Ahmedabad, to live and teach in this center.
Partly from the dynamic outer change in which he had to think of living his life without the company of his father, the young muni began to feel profound forces of inner change. He saw that his mission did not lie in remaining in Ahmedabad nor in continuing to lead the life of a rural monk. Now he felt a new freedom to move in directions which previously he did not consider actualizing out of regard for his father who was more traditional-minded than he. New vibrations, unknown feelings, the urge to respond to suffering humanity in a reformist humanitarian way, all were beckoning to him.
His heart turned towards Bombay. Though the people of Ahmedabad kept on urging him to stay, he decided to make his way to India's most modern, industrialized, and materialistic city. The men responsible for the new temple pressured him to reconsider, but to no avail.
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