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unknown) and millions of laity joined Lok ha leaving behind their blemished, faulty conduct as well as gacchas. Setting up a new gaccha or new sub-congregation would only increase the number of already existing big gacchas and aggravate the differences in Congregation. So when people enquired him in this direction, he affirmed himself as Jain or Jinamat. As Dravya Parampar received a great setback, both in popularity and income, out of despisal and envy they called the Jinamat and his followers as Lumpaka gaccha or Lumk gaccha.
The Jains who had immense faith in the great principle of Jainism, in Jine wara and in the Right Path propounded by him, and in the universal beneficent doctrines preached by him and compiled by his Ga adharas welcomed whole heartedly Lok ha and his peaceful revolution, which was initiated for a solemn cause. The six kind of life forms, especially the five immobile ones, which had been killed indiscriminately for centuries in the name of Dharma showered their blessings and deep-felt gratitude on Lok ha rejoicing silently, as he showed genuine concern for them, by pioneering the revolution to permanently put an end to their slaughter. On the contrary the rama as who were mired neck-deep in the muck of slack conduct and strong avariciousness, could not tolerate the abatement in their luxuries and comforts, and accused Lok ha using offensive language till they got exhausted (both in words and in strength) and many a times plotted against him. But Lok ha was least perturbed. As described in the loka of Gt, he remained withdrawn, unattached like a true Karmayog – 'to perform action renouncing the desire for its fruit, and continued his work’- creating awareness and enlightening the people of the original scripture based right path till the end of his life.
The flesh and blood and every cell of Lok ha, the perfect epitome of universal beneficent Jainisms, was filled with the saintly saying ‘Mitt me savva Bh esu, veram majjham na ke ai’ - all living beings are my friends, I do not have any animosity towards any living being. He even preached and encouraged his followers to strictly adhere to this virtuous saying without nurturing any animosity towards anyone. The seed of 'universal brotherhood' sown by Lok ha in the hearts of his followers was well cherished by them. 95 years after his death, his follower Devaj provided shelter to H ravijaya S ri, 58th head of Tap gaccha, a great propagator of Jina order in Vikram 1636 and protected
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