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joyun ke ek mahā tejasvī munirāj shaher taraph āvī āvī rahyā chhe. paṇ rājyanā paheragīro temane aṭakāvī
rahyā chhe. e drashya joīne kumārane āshcharya thayun. āshcharyathī teṇe mātāne pūchhayun–he mātā! e tejasvī puruṣh koṇ
chhe? ne paheragīro tene kem roke chhe?

kumārano prashna sāmbhaḷatān ja sahadevī rāṇīne dhrāsako paḍyo. tene bhay hato ke kyāṅk māro ekano ek

kumvar paṇ munirājanā darshanathī vairāgya pāmīne munidīkṣhā na laī le! tethī kumvaranī vāt ṭāḷī devā māṭe teṇe
javāb āpyo ke– ‘beṭā, e to hashe koīk bhikhārī. tāre enun shun kām chhe?’

rāṇīnī vāt sāmbhaḷatān ja dhāvamātā to roī paḍī. kemake te jāṇatī hatī ke bahār ūbhelā munirāj

anya koī nathī paṇ kīrtidhar rājā ja chhe. duṣhṭa rāṇī ek vakhatanā potānā patine ja bhikhārī kahī rahī chhe.

mātānā javābathī rājakumārane paṇ santoṣh thayo nahi. teṇe vichāryun ke–e puruṣhanī mudrā mahātejasvī chhe,

atyant prasanna chhe, tenāmān dīnatā jarāpaṇ nathī. e bhikhārī na hoī shake. e koī mahāpuruṣh chhe.

dhāvamātāne raḍatī joīne rājakumāre tene raḍavānun kāraṇ pūchhayun. dhāvamātāe tene sāchī hakīkat kahī dīdhī

ke–‘kumārajī! bahār ūbhelā mahātmā bījun koī nathī paṇ tamārā pitā ja chhe, ane teo muni thaī gayā chhe.’

e vāt sāmbhaḷatān ja rājakumār te kīrtidhar muni pāse doḍī gayo. jāṇe ke sansāranā bandhanathī chhūṭīne mukti

taraph ja doḍato hoy! munirāj pāse pahoñchatā ja temanā charaṇe namī paḍyo, ne āṅkhamānthī ānsunī dhārā chālavā
lāgī. temanī pāsethī vairāgya bharapūr dharmopadesh sāmbhaḷīne rājakumāranun hr̥uday sansārathī tadna udās thaī gayun.

tyān ne tyān ja rājakumāre jinadīkṣhā aṅgīkār karī. pitānā rājyano vāraso chhoḍīne pitā pāsethī

dharmano vāraso līdho. kalaiyo kumvar rājavaibhav chhoḍīne potānī siddhadashā sādhavā māṭe chālī nīkaḷ‌yo. kṣhaṇ
pahelānnno rājakumār atyāre munidashānī gambhīratāthī shobhī rahyo chhe. aho, dhanya tenun ātmagnān, ane dhanya
teno vairāgya!

kīrtidhar muni pāse sukoshalakumāre dīkṣhā laī līdhī; e jotān ja sahadevī rāṇīne ekadam āghāt lāgyo,

kīrtidhar muni upar krodh āvyo. ane rājakumāranā viyoge, vāghaṇ jevā krūr pariṇāme mr̥utyu pāmī. marīne te
vāghaṇ thaī.

mahāvairāgyavant sukoshal muni ane kīrtidhar muni ek divas jaṅgalamān ātmadhyānamān līn hatā.

evāmān vāghaṇ thayelī sukoshalanī mātā tyān āvī. dhyānastha sukoshal munine jotān ja temanā upar tarāp
mārī. sukoshalamuninā sharīrane vāghaṇ khāī rahī chhe, paṇ te munirāj to ātmānā ānandamān jhūlī rahyā chhe.
teo to turat ja kevalagnān pāmīne siddha thayā. aho, dhanya te rājakumāranun jīvan!

ā bāju, sukoshalamuninā sharīrane khātān khātān vāghaṇanī najar temanā hāth upar paḍī... ane tarat ja

te thambhī gaī. tenā manamān em thayun ke āvo hāth men kyāṅk joyo chhe! ... ane tarat ja tene pūrvabhavanun
jātismaraṇagnān thayun. ane shokane līdhe tenī āṅkhomānthī ashrudhārā chālavā lāgī.

te prasaṅge shrīkīrtidharamunie vāghaṇane upadesh āpyo ke are vāghaṇ! (sahadevī!) ten tārā putranun ja bhakṣhaṇ

karyun? je putranā premanī khātar tun mr̥utyu pāmī te ja putranā sharīranun ten bhakṣhaṇ karyun? aho, mohane dhikkār chhe.

tyān ne tyān vāghaṇ dharma pāmī, mānsabhakṣhaṇ chhoḍī dīdhun, ne vairāgyathī sannyās dhāraṇ karīne mr̥utyu pāmīne

devalokamān gaī; shrīkīrtidharamuni paṇ devalokamān jaīne pachhī manuṣhya thaīne mokṣha pāmyā.

bāḷako! gr̥uhavāsamān paṇ dharmātmā gnānīonun jīvan kevun vairāgya bharelun hoy chhe te ā sukoshal

rājakumāranī kathā uparathī samajajo. ane ātmānī samajaṇ karīne evun vairāgya jīvan jīvavānī bhāvanā
karajo. (ā ākhī kathānun ek sundar chitra ‘bhagavān shrī kundakunda pravachan maṇḍap’ –sonagaḍhamān chhe.)

joīe chhe

shrī jain atithi sevā samiti (sonagaḍh) mān nāmun vagere kāmakāj karī shake evā ek sevābhāvī

utsāhī jain kārakunanī jarūr chhe. jenī rahevā māṭe īchchhā hoy teṇe nīchenā saranāme patravyavahār karavo:–

shrī jain svādhyāy mandir sonagaḍh (kāṭhiyāvāḍ)

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