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Acknowledgements
Tirthankar Prabhu Mahaveer sat in Samosaran after attaining Kevaljnana. The noble beings of the universe then were able to glean from his omniscience by receiving the sermons. However, it is said that the Prabhu did not use the medium of voice at all. His sermons were in the form of thoughts radiating from his enlightened Self; in response to queries placed before him by the Ganadharas. The noble beings in Samosarun were able to receive those thoughts as if they were addressed to them respectively
It is said that those pure thoughts emanating from Bhagawan Mahaveer continue to reverberate in the atmosphere even to date. Attempts are being made by scientists to trap those vibrations and convert them to the medium of sound so that we could benefit from it.
That effort becomes necessary because mankind in those days did not use the medium of magnetic recording tapes. Knowledge was received and passed on by the Shrutukevalis.
Had it not been for the Shrutakevalis, we would not have received Prabhu Mahaveer's knowledge at all. There were sages over the ages and then there was Srimad Rajachandraji. Srimadji had probably been able to tune himself as a fine receiver of those resonant thoughts from the Prabhu, and was kind enough to com pose them forus as Atmasiddhi Shastra'.
We are fortunate to have been equipped in this age to get a magnetic recording of the lucid commentary on this Atmasiddhi Shastra presented over a period of four months by the revered Dr. Tarulatabai Mahasatiji. We are grateful to the technicians and the organisers involved in successfully making a recording of the daily discourses of Mahasatiji.
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