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Acharya Shri Bhuvanbhanu Surishwarji :
A LIFE-SKETCH Born as Shri Kantibhal on the 6th day of the dark fortnight of Chaitra in Vikram Era 1968, in a highly cultured and distinguished family in Ahmedabad, the great acharya was the second son of Shri Chimanbhai and Smt. Bhuriben. He received academic education and passed, with distinction, a banking examination of England of those days and thus showed his in-born intellectual brilliance.
When he was a buoyant and brilliant youth of 23 years, overflowing with tremendous intellectual potentialities, he, alongwith his younger brother Popatlal, renounced the splendor of the worldly life and received initiation into the Charitra Dharma or monkhood at the holy feet of the venerable Acharya Shri Prem Sûrîshwarji on the 12th day of Poush Sud (the bright fortnight) in the year 1991 of the Vikram Era, in Chanasma, in Gujarat, and became Muni Bhanu Vijayji. His younger brother became Muni Padma Vijayji. Later, another younger brother of his became a Muni under the name of Tarun Vijayji, and his younger sister received the Deeksha and became Sadhvi Hanskirtishriji.
Muni Bhanu Vijayji made an indepth study of the Jain Agamas and the various sytems of Western philosophies; and he attained mastery over them. He also attained mastery over such branches of knowledge as logic (Nyāya Shastra) and the like. While he was carrying out scriptural studies and teaching the scriptures, his innate talent for delivering elevating discourses also began to blossom forth into blissful dimensions; and a large number of educated youngsters became his disciples. He organized training camps (Shibirs) and through them he showed the way of discipline, culture and noble conduct to thousands of youngsters and inspired in them lofty spiritual ideals.
Besides carrying out such lofty tasks as scriptural studies and meditation, he established a permanent
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