Atmadharma magazine - Ank 061 (simplified iso15919 transliteration). Page: 7.

[gatāṅkathī chālu]

shrī sanātan jain shikṣhaṇavarga, sonagaḍh : shreṇī bījīnī parīkṣhānā uttar

siddha bhagavānanā ātmāno vichār karatān temanī ātmakathā sambandhī je preraṇā thaī te nīche mujab chhe:
te jīv anādithī nigodadashāmān ja anant anant duḥkho sahato thako temān ja janma–maraṇ karato hato.

aho! tenān apār duḥkhono pūro khyāl to kevaḷagnānī sivāy kone āvī shake? tyān nigodadashāmān ek
sharīramān anant jīvo rahe chhe tathā temane ek sparshendriy ja hoy chhe. temane gnānano ughāḍ paṇ ati alpa chhe.
prachūr mohāveshathī. teo gherāyelā hoy chhe. teo ek shvāsochchhvāsamān aḍhār vakhat janma–maraṇ kare chhe. āvān
apār duḥkhane sahato evo te jīv ek vār kanīk mand kaṣhāyarūpanā pariṇāmathī maraṇ karīne ek suprasiddha
sheṭhanā gher putra thaīne ūpajyo.

ā sheṭh ghaṇā ja dhanik to hatā parantu temanā hr̥udayamān dharmabhāvanā paṇ prabaḷ hatī. teo vītarāg

dharmanā ananya bhakta hatā. bahoḷā vyāpāranā kāmakājamān paḍayā hovā chhatān sheṭhanā hr̥udayamān ātmahitanī
kāmanā hatī. teo kāyam niyamapūrvak devadarshan, shāstra–svādhyāy tathā munirājanā charaṇakamaḷ pāse bhaktipūrvak
deshanā shravaṇ karavānun chūkatā nahi. sheṭhe nagaramān anek jinamandiro bandhāvyā hatān tem ja temanā gharamān paṇ ek
sundar bhavya jinamandir hatun. sheṭh kharekhar ek rūḍā ātmārthī jīv hatā. sheṭhanī māphak sheṭhāṇī tathā temanun ākhunye
kuṭumb sanskār ane dharmabhāvanāthī raṅgāyelun hatun.

āvā sheṭhane tyān te jīve putra tarīke janma līdho. putranā janmano sheṭhe moṭo utsav karyo. jinamandiramān

moṭī pūjā rachāvī tathā anek prakāranān dānanī jāherāt karī. ākhāye shaheramān garīb māṇasone miṭhāī ane
kapaḍānlattā vaheñchavāmān āvyān. sheṭhe putranun nām vīrendrakumār rākhyun.

vīrendrakumār bāḷapaṇ ghaṇā ja lāḍakoḍathī vītavā lāgyun. sheṭh jyāre potānā jinamandiramān pūjā svādhyāy,

dhyān karatā hoy tyāre bāḷak vīrendra pitājī pāse āvīne besī jāy ane jinapratimā sāme tathā pitājīnī
cheṣhṭā pratye ṭagaraṭagar joyā kare. vīrendranī saumya sundar mukhākr̥uti ane shānt prakr̥iti joīne loko āshcharya pāmatā.
ām vīrendra pāñch varṣhano thatān sheṭhe potāne gher shikṣhako rākhīne tenā māṭe laukik tathā dhārmik shikṣhaṇanī goṭhavaṇ
karī. laukik tem ja dhārmik banne prakāranā abhyāsamān vīrendra shīghratāthī āgaḷ vadhavā lāgyo.

ekavār ek vītarāgī munirāj āhāradān levāne jaṅgalamānthī shaheramān āvyā. munirāj najadīk

padhāratān sheṭhe ati bhaktipūrvak munirājane paḍagāhanā karī. munirājane āhāradān āpavāno yog mahadbhāgye
sheṭhane prāpta thayo. āhāradānanī vidhi pūrī thayā pachhī sau munirājanā charaṇane sparsha karīne potāne kr̥utārtha
mānavā lāgyā. vīrendre paṇ munirājanā charaṇakamaḷamān ullāsapūrvak sāṣhṭāṅg praṇām karyā. munirāje jarā smit
karīne tenā māthā par hasta mūkīne sheṭh pratye joīne kahyun–“ā jīv ā ja bhavamān bhagavatī jinadīkṣhā dhāraṇ
karīne paramānandamay shāshvat siddhadashāne prāpta karashe.” ām kahīne munirāj to jaṅgal taraph chālyā gayā, parantu
virendra viṣhe ā vāt sāmbhaḷīne sheṭh tathā tenā kuṭumbījanonā hr̥udayamān harṣhānandano pravāh vahevā lāgyo,
ullāsamān āvīne sheṭhe moṭo utsav karyo. te divasathī ja sau vīrendra pratye apūrva bhakti–prem rākhavā lāgyā.

ā taraph vīrendrano abhyāsakram paṇ ghaṇī ja tvarāthī āgaḷ vadhavā lāgyo. tenī buddhino chamakār joī

tenā shikṣhako paṇ āshcharyamagna thaī jatā. lagabhag ter varṣhanī ummar thatān to virendre laukik abhyāsamān gaṇit,
sāhitya, vignān, kavitā ādino ghaṇo abhyās karī līdho. tathā dhārmik abhyāsamān paṇ chārey anuyogono
ṭhīk ṭhīk abhyās karyo. navatattva, chha dravyo, nyāy, trilokanī rachanā, karmano svabhāv, shrāvak ane muninān
vyavahār ācharaṇ tathā vr̥uṣhabhādi tresaṭh shalākā puruṣhonun charitra vagereno abhyās thatān vīrendrane ākhāy
jagatanī vyavasthā ane sansār–mokṣhanun svarūp najar samakṣha jaṇāvā lāgyun. svādhyāy tathā vītarāgī munionā
samāgamathī teṇe ātmānā svarūpanun kharun svarūp jāṇyun. tene antaramān nishchay thayo ke aho! ā anant
sansārasāgaramān jīvane anant duḥkhonun ek mūḷ kāraṇ svasvarūpanī bhramaṇā, mithyā mānyatā ja chhe. ā anant

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