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A Rare Combination of Jnana & Dhyana -Acharya Designate Shri Mahaprajna
-Ram Swaroop Soni Some persons are born great ; some achieve greatness; and there are some who have greatness imposed upon them. Terapanth religious order is above these criteria. Everybody that is consecrated in this Order, be it a monk or a nun, is born great by dint of the auspicious planets dominating the zodiac at the time of his or her birth. Everyone achieves greatness by dint of the life of discipline that one leads. Greatness is imposed upon one when the Pontiff assigns him the duty to lead the whole Order when the occasion so demands. Erstwhile Muni Nathmalji, who is now designated as Yuvacharya Shri Mahāprajña by Acharya Shri, is a great personality from every consideration. He has been tested on every touchstone and found to be 100% ‘gold'.
He has voluminous literature to his credit. On the directions of Acharya Shri, he edited all the Agamas with missionary zeal, and the holy texts with commentaries are now available to the general reader. His works, comprising of about more than a hundred books, cover a wide range of topics and are replete with ample of lifelong experience gained through dedication and devotion to the ideals of Holy Order. They may be categorised under the following heads :- (1) Āgamas (2) Adhyātma and Darsana (3) Aņuvrata (4) Nīti and Sadācāra (5) Vihāra (6) Poetry and Poetic Prose (7) Yoga and Sādhanā (8) Essays (9) Miscellaneous.
Besides this published literature, there are innumerable articles tered throughout various magazines and top-ranking journals on Jainology & Indology. His forte lies in the universal appeal, discarding the narrowness or rather blind adherence to the ideology of any particular sect. Needless to say, he is an original thinker par excellence, and anything from his pen is reverently applauded by the classes as well as the masses, for he is acknowledgedly a great thinker, erudite philosopher and prolific, clear writer who has the gift of cashing in his experience.
His epoch-making works “Jaina Darśana : Manana aura Mimāṁsā”, “Jaina Nyāya kā Vikāsa,” “Ahimsā Tattva Darśana',, and a
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