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A FOREWORD BY THE PUBLISHERS
Panyas Pravar Shri Bhadraguptvijayji Ganivar is a renowned and highly esteemed exponent of the Dharma in the Jain Society. Wherever he delivers discourses, listeners come thronging enthusiastically to listen to him; and his speeches and writings have attained wide publicity in the Jain Sangha and in society. Wherever he spends the Chaturmas a number of spiritual austerities and celebrations are organised. Large numbers of people attend his discourses and the cultural programmes arranged under his guidance. His inspiring discourses have transformed and reformed the lives of countless people because they exercise a profound impact on the hearts and minds of the listeners. For the most part, his discourses aim at reforming the lives of people and at making them cultured and noble. His aim is the cultural and spiritual elevation of people.
These discourses were delivered by the sacred Gurumaharaj at Shantinagar, in Indore, during the Chaturmas in the year 1973. The discourses are based on the great work 'Dharmabindu' by Acharyashri Haribhadrasooriji. Subsequently, the revered Gurudev himself wrote down all the discourses on that basis. But the style of the discourses is such that when we read them, we do not feel that we are reading them; we feel that we are listening to the revered Gurudev.
The discourses of the revered Gurudev appear regularly in the monthly Hindi magazine 'Arihant'. These discourses appeared in 'Arihant' for about eight years.
There was a great demand from devotees for the publication of these 96 discourses but owing to the limited financial resources of the Trust and also because other books had to be printed urgently, there was some delay in publishing these discourses.
We are now happy to place in your hands, the English version of the second volume of Dhammam Saranam Pavajjami
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