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

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________________ could not smother "the still small voice" which whis. pered, "Leave all for Me." He had heard it before, but he had not beeded it. The call of Truth and Service comes to all once in a lifetime But it is only to a few that the call is repeated "The Seed' was stirring. The world of emo tion which he had momentarily peeped As Chitrabhanu. As ChitraDhanus in was a necessary adjunct to the shaping of his intellect to nobler ends The neryous style which he exhibits in some of his stories, the simple sweetness of his poetry, his stimulating power which arouses kindred passion for Truth as he sees it, in his audience are the virtues whose growth is not the less to be attributed to this phase of his life His studies in philosophy and the minutiae of theology might have given us a man of learning, but not a vivacious speaker His emotional culture balances the intellectual It is due to this, that he is gradually mas. tering the craft of the painter to deliveate in colourful language the things of the Spirit That RUP is becoming a Chitrabhany is not a mere accident Physical and spiritual development proceeds on some co-ordinating principle. Looking to the phy, Rolation of the scal side alone, we observe all the physical to the stages of evolution, right down from Spiritual an amoeba to a full grown mammal which it took aeons to perfect it, contracted to the

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