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For his mother Shrimad wrote down 12 restraints in brief and sent her to the monks for taking the Vows. Zabakbä was with her. Shrimad had also suggested to the monks to read to them the Celibacy' part from Jnänärnav. Devkaranji did accordingly and then told, 'Mother, now permit the graceful Guide to renounce so that he can elevate many people.'
Devbä: "I am too much attached to him; I cannot avert that. However, I will give the permission after he recovers.
That very day Shrimad had been to the monks at Bhävsärwädi. Mohanlälji asked him, 'From which limb might the soul be getting out at the time of death?'
Shrimad replied by an illustration: "As water flows in a canal, it would leak out where the canal is damaged. We have examined the nature of death and have concluded that the worldly beings call such a condition as death."
The monks moved from Bhävsärwädi to Saraspur Upashray. After 12.00 P.M. Ambälälbhai was asked to go to the monks Accordingly he went there alone and said:
"The graceful Guide has extended unprecedented favor to me. My indolence has been removed today. Waking me up he has superbly explained the right path from the absolute as well as the practical viewpoints. He has also explained the nature of practice that leads to bliss." That way he continued to talk till the morning and then went back to Shrimad.
At Ahmedabad Shrimad said to Devkaranji, “I have publicly given up wife and wealth. It seems that the mother will give permission for total renouncement."
Devkaranji: "It should be the rise of our wholesome fortune that we will get the benefit of your uninterrupted contact."
Shrimad was to go to Surendranagar. Before that he went to see the monks. Talking about his plan to go there, he told Lallujiswämi reproachfully, "You are pursuing us. Wherever we go, you run after us. You do not leave us apart."
On hearing that the monks felt that he had given that instruction in order to get rid of their attachment. Thereupon they made up their mind to go for his contact, when he writes for that. Till then they would simply hold devotion towards him.
The next day Shrimad sent for Lallujiswami and Devkaranji at Ägäkhän building and giving the last instructions, he said, "Do not differentiate us from the detached Lords."
When Shrimad went to Surendranagar. Lallubhai and Naginbhai of Khambhät came to see him. While they were going back, Shrimad said, "Whether we meet again or not, whether there would be contact or not, keep faith in us intact. There is no distinction between me and Lord Mahävir; if there be any, that relates only to this shirt."
During his stay at Surendranagar Shrimad had set up the plan of Paramshrut Prabhävak Mandal (Union to spread the supreme knowledge). During late 1899 he has mentioned about it in a letter. "It has been planned for propagating the supreme Truth. That would spread and the true path would come to the light. We will set the index of Prajnävabodh in the series of Mokshamälä." That organization was set up for raising a substantial amount and to print the unpublished books of great Acharyas so that the people at large can conveniently get the opportunity to think over the fundamentals.
After giving up wealth Shrimad used to observe the restraint very minutely. He did not keep with him even the rail ticket. If he had to be involved in economic aspects of Paramshrut Prabhävak Mandal, he considered that as a transgression.
