Treasure Of Qualities Introduction to Inspiring Life of Acharya Vijaydharmsuri Maharaj

Author(s): Prashamratnavijay
Publisher: Dharmkrupa Trust

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A Principal of Principles... Sets up a new Jain nursery in Baroda
Although Dharmasuri Maharaj was born in Vadhwaan and would have spent his early years of life in Gujarat, people still call him as a “Mumbaikar", as he passed the next half of his life here and graced the city in such a way, which even the Marathi politicians couldn't do! But this time in VS 2005, he was at Baroda for the Chaturmas, as the trustees of Ghadiyaadi pole had put up back to back request from the last many years! The upaashray was undergoing a renovation, whose inauguration ceremony, was organized under the presence and guidance of Dharmasuri Maharaj. As a substitute, Dharmasuri Maharaj and his disciples had stayed in a Dharmashaala, owned by the same trust of the temple.
In the free time after gochri, Dharmasuri Maharaj had put up a habit of taking 15-20 turns round the Hall for proper digestion. But don't think that even these 10-15 minutes were wastage of time as even in this lease time, he would revise more than 200 gatha orally! Even at the age of 78, if someone would ask him to speak the gatha from any of the 7000-8000
ones, he had memoriz ed throughout his life, he could recite them all without making a single error! The cardinal reason was this effort of revising the studies everybody even in his middle and older years!
Once in the same way, after completing the afternoon gochri, he was roaming in the balcony of the 1st floor Hall, when he noticed the small kids of nursery consuming the potato wafers! Mostly 70% of the kids were having the Kesar tilak on their forehead, which means, they were Jain and still they were eating the snacks made from potatoes! Dharmasuri Maharaj was astonished to observe this! He wondered why the parents would be making their kids consume the food items that is strictly restricted in our religions? But later on, he came to know, that the nursery in which the kids use to study, had itself taken the responsibility of providing the snacks to its students and hence, the teacher himself would offer this potato wafers to both Jain and Non-Jain Kids! It was useless to directly talk to the teachers and hence,