Treasure Of Qualities Introduction to Inspiring Life of Acharya Vijaydharmsuri Maharaj

Author(s): Prashamratnavijay
Publisher: Dharmkrupa Trust

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'in a particular area'! Also, he hadn't remained in Mumbai for such a mighty span so that he could be served by the circle of devotees or could live a luxurious life, but in that complete period, he inspired the Shravaks to construct more than a half - century of temple and upaasbray in Aamchi Mumbai. When he had arrived for the very 1* time in Mumbai with his grand Gurudev, he had found only a single temple of Malad between Virar and Santacruz. And today? There are more than 100 temples in a single region of Malad! I think that if he might not had taken the initiative of constructing the very 1* temple in every area, it's for sure that we might not have received the chance of possessing more than 700 temples in our city! And it's obvious that to implant those temples, he would also have to remain present in Mumbai for donation and other issues related to it! Hence, he even doesn't break the 2nd clause of 'without reason'! Also, he himself use to say that thrice a time in between, he had tried to plan his Chaturmas outside Mumbai, but the responsibilities always revolving around him., never let him implement his plan! Hence, although his activity looks wrong, his intention was never faulty! Still, that individual did the inept activity by criticizing him in the newspaper.
When the devotees of Dharmasuri Maharaj read this article in the newspaper, they became furious and decided to provide a retort to that individual in the same newspaper next day. They planned to insult that person till such a limit that he never dares to do some activity like this in future. They visited Dharmasuri Maharaj to consulate him for this mis- behavior done by some non-sense human and inform him about their 68
decision for the next day. They had expected that Dharmasuri Maharaj himself would only start talking about the day's insult and the reply for tomorrow but to their wondering, he drew the topic completely on the opposite direction. Instead of emboldening his devotees to give the reply to that individual, he advised them to ignore that. He said, "Whenever someone tries to criticize me, I divide it into 2 parts: True and False. If the person, who's accusing me, is speaking the truth, I try to find my mistake and take the effort to eradicate it, and if the person is falsely accusing me, I simply pay no attention and ignore it. The society knows very well what I have done for them in these 16 years. Such needless stuffs can never spoil my image in their minds and hence, if we give a reply to it that may prove that we have given value to such wastages! I think we must maintain our patience and neglect that condemn!"
The Devotees bowed down in the feet of their Gurudev, who showed such a positive attitude towards a negative incident which might surely create a disturbance to a regular person's patience! And this also emanated a miraculous effect! Actually, mouth to mouth, this reply of Dharmasuri Maharaj reached till the person who had criticized and after hearing the fact, he felt regretted to have insulted such a saint who was an idol of peace and patience!
Later on, he himself visited Dharmasuri Maharaj and censured for his mistake in front of him! Like if he is teaching us a wonderful message that, “Offence is just not the way for winning a battle, if you have the mastery to just defend yourself, victory is eager to embrace you..."