Book Title: Half Hour With Jain Muni
Author(s): Abdul Hamiz A Baakza
Publisher: Jaico Publishing House Bombay

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________________ Half-Hours with a Jain Muni (A Spiritual Brography of Vum Shree Chandraprıblısagar Vlaharaj) On the evening of the 5th July 1956, a friend of A sweet mine came to see me He wanted to personalıtı take me to Muni Shree Chandraprabhsagarji Maharaj Chitrabhanu' We immediately set off to see the person I had pictured to myself a man of austere looks, with a bald head, and a few straggling hair on the chin-an angular type altogether, but when I saw the Monk, he belied my mental image of him by presenting himself as a man of rosy health and gentle manners and a man of great personal charm Not a hard shiny shell of a skull, but a well shaped head with a stock of black hair, an open face with a beard which, though not cultivated was not scrubby too I could see him through the haze of the twilight which filled the room, because the religious vows of his order shut out all artificial light and yet the glimpse I caught

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