Treasure Of Qualities Introduction to Inspiring Life of Acharya Vijaydharmsuri Maharaj

Author(s): Prashamratnavijay
Publisher: Dharmkrupa Trust

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State? Whether he might be a Sadhu or a Shravak, the one who reacts against the advices and rules of the scriptures is must to be criticized right? No... Not at all! Till Now, I presented the arguments from the side of the individual who utilized the mass-media for criticizing Dharmasuri Maharaj, but now, it's my time to present the counter - blasts, not from the side of Dharmasuri Maharaj, but from the side of absolute truth and nobility to the scriptures!
My very first point is that criticism is never entertained anywhere in the Jain religion. When even the people who have crossed the limits of violence or insulting the god and Gurudev or incurring sins, is even not worthy to be criticized, how come one could do that with a Sadhu, who follows these great vows and sustains so many hardships arriving in his way! Even if he's committing any mistake, one must try to make him aware of the truth, but criticizing him in the open public not just degrades the value of that Sadhu, but of the entire community of
asceticism in the minds of those people who already have a feeling of hatred for them! Also, I don't feel that the insulted Sadhu arrives on the right way by such sort of criticism; instead it's possible that after such outcomes, he might even loose his previous goodness and set his life on the wrong way!
And now! From the side of Dharmasuri Maharaj. If you could recollect, while scripting the claim of that individual, I had mentioned 2 clauses between the lines which are the new tools of my cross arguments. The very first of, 'in a particular area' and the second one of 'without reason'. If you can't relate, I won't feel bad if you jump 2 paragraphs in the reverse direction and hunt out for this, after which, you may proceed further. Although he had spent 16 seasons of rain in a single location of Mumbai, his sublocations had always kept of changing from suburbs to the town and vice versa and even in the different areas of the both. Neither he had done a pair of Chaturmas in a single place ever in the 16 years and also in the another 8 months of summer and winter he might travel to distant cities of Maharashtra and Gujarat that collectively signify that he never created a disturbance to the first clause of,
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