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CHAPTER X
Acharaya Tulsi, of Terapanth
Ninth and the present head Author's impression of him and what he found in him. Glimpses of his latest movement "Anuvrat Sangh" for the moral upliftment of the Individuals.
1 happened to meet Acharaya Tulsi in Sardarshaher, a wealthy town in Bikaner division of Rajasthan. He was seated in a big pandal with a polished floor of a large building belonging to a staunch devotee of the Terapanth sect, better known as 'Ghadheyajee'. It was dusk and when the sun was fast setting Acharaya shree was changing His "Uttarya Vastra" attended by one of His young desciple; I saw before me an average sized man who must have turned forty; a placid forehead, bright joyous and reposeful eyes radiating with the light of pure selfless love, brotherhood and friendliness. There appeared no factitiality, no effort to impress or awe, no vehement desire for applause or worship.
He appeared to me punctilious and full of rich humanity and in him was evident a perennial flow of friendliness towards all the creatures of this universe, Whatever doubts I had in my mind regarding Jain monk's thirteen vows as to how they abide by them in these times and how they are able to cleave to them even when they
