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FOREWORD
The memorable first milestone of the long untired journey was laid in the year 1968 in a little cabin 7x31 on the Fifth Floor of Al Sabah Court which stands on Marine Drive, Bombay-the first milestone to mark the starting of an enchanting work : parables and sayings of Lord Mahavir in verse-form, prose and play-form, exquisite parables which literally intoxicated my heart and mind, rendering the labour across five years of consistant and concentrated creation, a labour of dedication at the feet of the Divine Master Mahavir.
How was the Work first conceived ? I must express sheer unqualified gratefulness to Kiranbhai in whose quiet cabin I sat day after day, taking down scraps of notes which served as shorthandwhile he read out or recounted parable after parable with undescribable vividness. While I listened in dumb admiration to Kiranbhai I felt I was literally whisped away to the age of Mahavir, the Golden Lord, on whose very presence I seemed to sit building up the structure of my writings interweaving through them eternal truths embodied in the sacred Jain Scriptures.
I experienced sheer calm excitement of elevated consciousness. All credit goes to Kiranbhai who has himself for years been a acknowledged guru, guide or philosopher friend of thousands of persons
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