Half Hour With Jain Muni

Author(s): Abdul Hamiz A Baakza
Publisher: Jaico Publishing House Bombay

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Prefatory Note
I am indebted to Muni Maharaj for the factual matter of this biography That is I could get verification from him for the dates and places that I have mentioned Beyond this, every attempt of mine to get any more information from him has ever met with a gentle rebuff He has such a high regard for the veracity of statement that he refused to say anything lest I misconstrued its meaning One other cogent reason that I can adduce is that his illness has affected his memory so much that he remembers very little of the past with any pretence to sequence or accuracy The only courtesy that he could show me was to allow me to write this Sketch I had therefore to depend upon 'the asides' with the visitors who came to see him or attend his Vyakhyan at different towns or cities Under this handicap, whatever bits of information I could gather, I have utilised So far as the main thread of the story is concerned, I am sure, Muni maharaj will agree with me as to its veracity Where I have interpreted the facts I may have erred in some minor details and for that, I seek his indulgence to pardon me 'Why should he have been so stubborn and not offered to enlighten me?' I humbly protest He should pay for this, by his forbearance
Now, if any apology be needed for presenting his lifehowever sketchy it be and hastily written-it lies in his growing popularity with the Jains and non-Jains at the present day A more serious reason for me is that I have learned to love him He is so lovable And love assigns no
reasons,
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