Atmadharma magazine - Ank 176 (simplified iso15919 transliteration). Page: 28.

jeṭhaḥ 2484 ḥ 27ḥ

ājubājumān shrī sīmandhar bhagavān tathā shrī ādināthabhagavān birājamān chhe, tathā uparanā bhāgamān shrī chandraprabh
bhagavān birājamān chhe. bhāvapūrvak jinendra bhagavantonī pratiṣhṭhā bād jinamandiramān samayasārajī shāstranī sthāpanā
paṇ gurudevanā karakamaḷathī thaī hatī. ane jinamandir upar kalash tathā dhvaj chaḍhāvavāmān āvyā hatā...vītarāgī
jinamandiramān birājamān vītarāgī bhagavantonī shāntamudrā dekhīdekhīne bhaktajanonān haiḍān ṭharatā hatā..

bhagavantonī pratiṣhṭhā bād tarat ja shāntiyagna thayo hato ane pachhī shrī jinendradevanī bhavya rathayātrā nīkaḷī

hatī. ā rathayātrā ghaṇī ja prabhāvak hatī. bhagavān sanmukh ajamer bhajanamaṇḍaḷīnī satat bhakti ane nr̥itya, hāthī
upar pharakato dharmadhvaj, vachche benḍanā vājintranād, ane bhaktono apār utsāh,–e drashyothī rathayātrā bahu ja
shobhatī hatī, bhakto ane nagarajano āvī sundar rathayātrā dekhīne āshcharya pāmatā.

paramapūjya gurudevanā mahān pratāpe līmbaḍī shaheramān digambar jainamandir bandhāyun ane temān jinendra bhagavantonī

pratiṣhṭhāno āvo bhavya mahotsav ūjavāyo. jhālāvāḍamān ā pañchakalyāṇak utsav pahelavahelo ja hato...saurāṣhṭranā
lokone thoḍā varṣho pahelān khabar paṇ na hatī ke digambar jainadharma te shun chhe!! tene badale āje gurudevanā pratāpe
saurāṣhṭramān ṭher ṭher di. jainadharmanā ūṇḍān mūḷ ropāyā chhe ane dinadin jainashāsananī prabhāvanā vadhatī jāy chhe. āje to
jāṇe ākhun saurāṣhṭra tīrthadhām banī gayun chhe. pratiṣhṭhā prasaṅge līmbaḍīnā bhāīone paṇ ghaṇo ullās hato. jinendra
bhagavānanī pratiṣhṭhāno pañchakalyāṇak mahotsav ullāsapūrvak karāvavā māṭe līmbaḍīnā bhāīo–khās karīne
manusukhalālabhāī phūlachandabhāī, himmatalālabhāī, keshavalālabhāī vagerene anek dhanyavād ghaṭe chhe. chūḍāvāḷā bhāīshrī
līlādhar māstare ā pratiṣhṭhāmān bhagavānanī ane shāstrījīnī pratiṣhṭhā māṭe je umaṅg batāvyo te paṇ prashansanīy hato.
indoranā paṇḍit shrī nāthulālajī shāstrī pratiṣhṭhāchārya hatā, teo darek prasaṅganī vigatavār samajaṇ āpīne bahu sundar
rīte darek vidhi karāvatā hatā; niḥspr̥uhabhāve pratiṣhṭhāvidhi karāvavā badal temane paṇ dhanyavād ghaṭe chhe. pratiṣhṭhānā divase
sāñje jinamandiramān sundar bhakti thaī hatī. bīje divase gurudeve paṇ jinendradevanī ek stuti karī hatī ane vaishākh sud
pūrṇimāe līmbaḍīthī chūḍā taraph vihār karyo hato.

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“have līdhā līdhā!”

ek ḍosīmā mīṭhān chībhaḍān vechavā āvyā...ek māṇasane chībhaḍān levānun

man thayun...(chībhaḍānno bhāv be āne sher hato.) pāñch sheranun chībhaḍun laīne teṇe
pūchhayunḥ ḍoshīmā! ānun shun lesho? ḍoshīmā kaheḥ das ānā thāy paṇ ek āno
ochho āpajo. te māṇas kaheḥ chār ānāmān āpavun chhe! “līdhā...līdhā..!”
kahetāk ḍoshīmāe chībhaḍun pāchhun laī līdhun..

tem dharmanī kimmat samajyā vagar ghaṇā loko kahe chhe ke amāre dharma karavo

chhe...parantu dharmane māṭe ātmāne samajavā je antaraprayatna karavo joīe te to
karatā nathī, ne sharīranī kriyāthī ke shubharāgathī ja dharma thaī javānun māne chhe, –parantu
e rīte kadī dharmanī prāpti thāy nahi. gnānī kahe chhe keḥ bhāī! dharma to apūrva chīj
chhe, te evī sādhāraṇ chīj nathī ke rāg vaḍe maḷī jāy...antarasvabhāvanā apūrva
puruṣhārtharūpī kimmat vagar dharma maḷe nahi, māṭe ātmānī samajaṇano prayatna karavo
joīe. tyān je em kahe chhe keḥ “amāre ātmā samajavo nathī, amane to ā
bāhyakriyā ne rāgādi karatān karatān dharma thaī jashe.”–to gnānī kahe chhe keḥ “
karyo...karyo...ten dharam!!” ātmāne samajyā vagar tane kadī dharma thāy–em
banavānun nathī. dharmamān mūḷ rīt ja ātmānī samajaṇ karavī te chhe; enī je nā
pāḍe chhe tene to dharmanī kharī darakār ja nathī. ‘dharma karavo chhe’ em te bhale kaheto
hoy paṇ dharmanī kharī kimmat tene bhāsī nathī.

– lāṭhīmān rātricharchā uparathī.

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