Jina Kushal Suri Diwakar Chitrakatha 045

Author(s): Shashiprabhashreeji, Shreechand Surana
Publisher: Mahavir Seva Trust Mumbai

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DADAGURU SHRI JINA KUSHAL SURI
With the spread of the news thousands of people on hundreds of camels, bullock carts, and on feet rushed towards Deravar. Looking at this large crowd going in one direction people asked
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You don't know? The sun of Jain order has set. Shri Jina Kushal Suri has expired..
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What is the matter? Where these people are going?
A large open palanquir with 75 spires was made for his body. Thousands of devotees hailed Shri Jina Kushal Suri with choked voice and tear-filled eyes. Shouts of 'Shri Jina Kushal Suri is immortal' filled the skies..
Oh! He
was a great saint. Come, let's go have his last
glimpse.
Thus throngs of people came in waves towards Deravar.
sin 1383 in Barmer, Gurudev wrote Vrihad Vritti" on Chatyavandan Kulak of Dada Jinadatta Suri. He installed more than a thousand images in many temples in various cities. Of these many are still available.
His last rites were performed on the banks of a river. On his cremation thousands of his devotees cried bitterly.
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