Moksha Marg Prakashak

Author(s): Todarmal Pandit
Publisher: Kundkund Kahan Digambar Jain Trust

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OUR PIOUS WISH अज्ञानतिमिरान्धाना ज्ञानाञ्जनशलाकया ।
चक्षुरुन्मीलित येन तस्मै श्री गुरवे नमः ॥ Before expressing our sentiments, and after paying repeated obeisance to Dev-Shastra-Guru, we pay our hearty respects innumerable times to Pujya Gurudevshri Kanji Swami who has shown the path of liberation to several Mumukshus like us by extracting them from the darkness of ignorance
Today, he is not in our midst. His absence is intolerable to all the Mumukshus. Who would now call us as God? Who would call magnanimous to paupers ? Who would now address us with words full of inner love ? - When this thought comes to us our hearts start throbing.
Though, today, he is not in our midst, yet his discourses are available to us both in the form of religious books and tapes. If we wish, we can achieve salvation by engrossing ourselves into his discourses. His discourses have the capacity of showing us the path of liberation provided we study them deeply. Then alone the same can act as an instrumental cause of our salvation. The emergence of the capacity in us to achieve salvation is also the result of kindness of Pujya Gurudevshri towards us.
Today, the whole human race is running towards the attainment of wordly pleasures and is after to obtain restful human life. Oh Gurudev ! in such times, you have explained to us the magnanimity of the sentient soul and by preaching us to make deep inner effort, you have extracted us from the transmigratory existence. Both of us and our family members are highly grateful to you. We feel exalted by being the recipients of the kindness that you have bestowed on us. In this era, the birth of Pujya Gurudevshri was a blessing for the human race. By explaining to the world entangled in the clutches of conventional rituals, the real essence of Jain religion and thus by freeing it from these rituals, you explained to us that every soul can attain the path of salvation by experiencing the existence of the sentient soul present in the inner-self. In this way, you have shown to
the devotees the means of becoming God. Our birth in the