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said "it will be too late”. All these utterances showed that he was willing to return to Chinchan perhaps to die there. He was against using any vehicle for his movement from place to place and many a times he had expressed that he was always in favour of "Padavihar (going on foot) and "Bhikshachari" (begging of alms) by a Jain Muni. He did not forget this even in his serious sickness.
After a few days in the hospital, he refused to take food but on doctor's advice milk and liquid was given with great efforts and persuasions. He used to say, "What is the use of feeding a paralytic person ?"
When once he could know that he was given water to drink he asked whether it was “Achet" (water made cool after being boiled). This showed how careful he was for observing the rules which a Jain Saint is supposed to observe.
The Saint left his body at about 10-55 a.m. on 26th March at the time when exactly at this time at Ranpur the lecture of Gulam Rasul Kureshi Saheb was being read over at the Silver Jubilee function and regretting the absence of Santbalji. Kureshi Saheb said, "Vohi Hota hai, Jo Majure Khuda Hota hai" (only that happens which God wishes to happen). Ambubhai who was reading these lines on behalf of Kureshi Saheb says that on proper adjustment of the timing he could say that the time of the reading of above line coincided exactly with the time when the Saint left his earthly existence.
It is customary that when a Jain Saint of such eminence passes away his belongings are auctioned among the devotees and funds of lacs of Rupees are accumulated. So the large number of devotees who gathered there on his death considered whether his belongings should be put to customary auction. Santbal never
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