Lord Mahavira and His Teachings

Author(s): Vallabhsuri Smarak Nidhi
Publisher: Vallabhsuri Smarak Nidhi

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Lord Mahavira and His Teachings
cloistered halls for religious discourses. He was readywitted and always open to answer all questions. Persons of all faiths used to call on him, hear his talks and invite him to address meetings. He solved the difficulties and problems contronting individuals. and institutions. He was fearless and outspoken in his view. Behind this dißiplimed outlook, he was tender and soft to the distressed and unbappy. It did not matter to which strata of society hits cullers be longed. Direet contact helped him to know the pulse of the society. During his stay in Gujarat, be took active part in the Conference of Jaime Sadhus at Ahmedabad and gave an exemplary lead to establish unity and purity amongst the priestly class. He disliked theories, doctrines, dogmas and principles based on wrong notions and misguided aptitudes. Hoeveeson were revolutionary to a great extent. This created misunderstandings, which were based on narrow out look. He never liked to slacken the rules and regulations, governing the austere life of a person, who has renounced this worldly life. He was against al unnecessary expenses either in religious or marriage ceremonies. He was against some of the deeprooted evils, which corroded the sinews of society. He had an abborrence for the custom of marriage dowry.
* THE SCHEME FOR THE MIDDLE CLASS
His last visit to Bombay proved memorable. During his journey on foot through villages, towns and cities of the Punjab, Madhya Bharat, Gujarat and Saurashtra, he was deeply moved by the hard-stricken
to the middle and the lower strata ot the sodety. He was predecupied during the last months of his