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knowledge is easily accessible to all.
she is released from such constraints in her
aesthetic creations. Viewing this Brahmi Kala Mandiram, visitors spontaneously murmur words of Shri Brahmi Kala Mandiram is named after appreciation. Their spirit cries out - Brahmi, who was well-versed in the arts and adyābhavat saphalatā nayanadvayasya - 'It is a was the daughter of the first Tirthankar, Shri wonderful feast for the eyes. We are so Rishabhdev. Visitors are enraptured by the moved by it'. Visitors want to know who set eye-catching scenes from the lives of the up this wonderful display, who thought it Tirthankars displayed in the museum. up, where these ideas came from. And with History comes alive here. Here the a feeling of awe, people offer up their transcendent is made tangible, the sublime heartfelt congratulations at seeing such a acquires substance and stories take shape. splendid creation.
This outpouring of artistic endeavour all
became possible with the blessings of Pujya When these questions were put to Gurudev and to mark his 82 birthday, Shri Sadhvishri, the creator of the exhibits, she Brahmi Kala Mandiram was inaugurated in said: "This is just an expression of my inner 1982 amidst great rejoicing. feelings. This work is the translation of things I have seen in my mind's eye. It just Netra Jyoti Seva Mandiram : happened naturally. I really saw them and The Eye Hospital they just came into being of their own While one side of Sadhvishri's nature was accord." Sadhvishri's artistic eye sees beauty finding expression in the Shri Brahmi Kala and purpose even in dry leaves, bamboo Mandiram, the other was taking form in the stems, twigs and other ordinary everyday shape of the eye hospital. If the museum gives things. In the same way that she loses all us a glimpse of the beauty of Sadhvishri's sense of time and bodily existence when vision, then the eye clinic is the concrete immersed in study or mediation, similarly expression of her compassion. She continued
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