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divinity and a very high order of thought are evident throughout the book.
One religious head requested Srimad to prepare a book in verse, of the fundamental tenets of his religion and offered to pay Rupees one thousand to him for such composition. But Srimad turned down the offer as it was against his religious discipline.
Srimad also edited a newspaper named Vairagya Vilasa or enjoyment of non-attachment."
To our grief nothing of the above is available
In some of the advisory compositions prepared by him at the age of eighteen years he enunciates a doctrine and then illustrates it. He says "the gift of all scriptures can be summed up in two words-devotion to God and adoption of a life of benevolence in the world."
In 1885 A. D. his composition on 'In memory of the brave' Shuravira Smarana he has given in verse a picturesque description of the brave warriors, who victoriously fought the battles in India of the past and he compares those glorious moments with the present times when he does not find any one of that caliber to free India from foreign domination. The poem gives us sharp contrasts between the brave of the past and the cowards that inherit them in his days. Had Srimad lived a long life, his aspirations of Indian freedom would have been amply rewarded. He would have been happy to see his friend Mohandas Gandhi, the harbinger of Indian freedom and of the betterment of the peoples of the world, liberating India from British yoke by the Jain method of truth and non-violence.
In all forms of literature Srimad has made his mark and had he turned all his energy to literature, he
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