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described by Ratna kumar Jain in Gandhi-Ujjavala Vārtālapa (Svashraya Prakashan Samiti, Delhi, 1954), p. 22.
"One day Gandhi thought of earning the merit by offering food to Jain monk (Sati) Ujjawal. The question arose in his mind whether Satīji will accept food from him? Satīji gave her consent to accept food from Gandhi. On hearing this, Birlaji brought a silver plate with cups in Gandhi's hands. While Gandhi was offering food to Satiji, Vallabh Bhai Patel came by. Gandhi addressing Patel said, "Are you seeing that I have become a Jain Śrāvaka, Come I can make you also one."
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The next day Gandhi expressed his desire to Satīji. Once Gandhi was offering curd to Jain Sadhvī Ujjawal (during his stay in Bombay during September 1944 at Birla House). Satījī told Gandhi "If you take my pot in your hand and put curd in it than no curd will fall on the floor?" Gandhi took Sadhvi's pot in his hand, and as per his nature, said to sati while pouring curd in her pot, Mahāsatīji: I am not so lucky to keep this pot(Satīji's) in my hand, If it was possible, than I would have been free from all these worldly issues and could live peacefully".
My.Ex. op. cit., pp.127 and 147 (For religious harmony), 189,255 (Brahmacarya), 299-300, 327-8 (veg)
Ibid, p.300.
.So, immediately after release from jail, I imposed on myself the two rules. As far as was then possible, I stopped taking tea, and finished my last meal before sunset. Both these now require no effort in the observance."
Jinendra Varni, Jainendra Siddhanta Kośa, Vol-III (Bharatiya Jnanapeeth, New Delhi, 1972), p.624
M. K. Gandhi, YM (Navajivan Publishing House, Ahmedabad, 2010), p. 29.
80 See Appndix 1.
See chapter 1. Votary is householder who adopts the five minor vows as a way of life and is samyakdrsti or firm belief in the existence of soul and its capability to become supreme soul by its own strenuous efforts.
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