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Acknowledgment
I feel that it is a right place to acknowledge my indebtedness for the help and encouragement received from my teachers, family members, and friends to complete this task.
Ācārya Kanaknandhiji inspired me to express concepts of Samayasāra through the examples of modern science. Ācārya Sunil Sagarji encouraged me to deliver many talks on Samayasāra in his Sangh; the interest of Muni Shri Sambuddha Sagarji and Muni Shri Shrutansh Sagarji of his Sangh in reading and listening annotations of many stanzas from Soul Science has been a rewarding experience to me; and their feedback has been very much helpful in improving the manuscript. Dr Hukam Chandji Bharill motivated me to translate Samayasāra in English and provided the soft copy of his book to let me extract original stanzas of Acārya Kundakunda typed in Devanagari. I would also like to express my indebtedness to my father (late) Shri Bhanwarlalji Agrawal who taught me basics of Samskrta and Jainology besides other worldly lessons. In this regard, I also acknowledge the encouragement provided by Shri Pawanji Jain (Mangalayatan). I have no words to express my indebtedness to these personalities.
I acknowledge the detailed feedbacks from my friends: Br. Hemachandji Jain 'Hem' (Devalali), Pandit Sachinji Shastri (Mangalayatan), Dr. Kirit Gosaliya (Phoenix), and Dr. N. L. Kachhara (Udaipur). They devoted a lot of their valuable time in reading the whole manuscript very thoroughly and provided their comments and suggestions. Without their feedbacks the quality of the work would have been different. In this regard, I also remember the importance of feedback from Dr. Prem Suman Jain (Udaipur), Dr. Shugan C. Jain (New Delhi), and Dr. Anupam Jain (Indore). In addition to providing the valuable suggestions, Dr. Shugan C. Jain has been kind enough to write the 'Foreword', and Pandit Sachinji Shastri Jain has encouraged me by providing the ‘Preface to be included in this work. My hearty thanks to these friends for all they have done in the completion of this book.
