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have three volumes entitled 'Maini Atmā Hūm' (1988 A. D.) covering some 1038 pages by a Jaina Sadhvi Dr. Carulata. They contain. her lectures delivered on Śrīmad's 'Atmasiddhi'. Srimad had told that one may write a commentary worth one hundred verses on each verse of 'Atmasiddhi. Dr. Tarulata's works, as it were, confirm Śrīmad's prophetic utterance. She has got her doctorate on Śrīmad.
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One of the staunch Gandhian Jain saints is Shri Santa Bala who has written a commentary (in about
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200 pages) on Śrīmad's well known small poem of only 22 lines namely 'Apurva Avasara' which being one of the favourite songs of Mahatma Gandhi, is included in his Āśrama Bhajanāvalī. Santa Bala has entitled his book as 'Siddhānta Sopāna.' (i.e. Ladder to Doctrine). In the introduction of this book he makes the following observations on the merit of this poem:
"This poem is composed mainly on the basis of well known fourteen spiritual stages described in the Jaina āgamas. The characteristics and states of these stages are actually discussed in the manner of the agamas. However, the classification and composition is so marvellously and artistically produced as to remind us of the architecture of Taj Mahal. It is as universal as
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