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When renowned Jain Literateur Shree Mohanlal Dalichand Desai was toiling day and night and remained engrossed in writing the summarized history of Jain literature, he used to prepare short-notes of the chapters that he would be writing, in a chronological order. His young son used to see these pages with short-notes written on them, with curiosity. One day he got a bright idea. He took a match-stick and chronologically burnt all the pages with short-notes. He was enjoying himself. He now started burning books also. Just then Mohanbhai entered the room and was stunned to see these flames at play. He controlled himself and collected some of the half-burnt pages. He prepared all the notes again. Without feeling dejected he re-wrote all the chapters pertaining to the thirteenth century. In the preface to the summarized history of Jain Literature, he has written: "My son Ramnik (meaning beautiful) has done a ramniya (beautiful) thing. These chapters were written in a much better way than the ones written earlier". Mohanbhai emerged victorious in the fire test of his tolerance.
Everyone has to learn to accept a loss. Without feeling disappointed or dejected or getting mentally agitated, a person who accepts the loss gracefully, is a true victor. There is a very good saying in English: "Winners don't do different things. They do things differently". We can differentiate between greatness and pettiness not from difference in the activities but from difference in the way of performance of the activities.
King Kumarpal's Minister Bahaad had undertaken the renovation of the holy Shatrunjay Tirth. When he received the news that the main temple was ready, he gave a gold denture with 32 teeth carved around a tongue, to the person who gave him the good news. But the next day there was an
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