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* * * traṇ ratnan

kimmat samajīe * * *

sansāramān anantānant jīvomānthī asaṅkhyātajīvo ja manuṣhya hoy chhe eṭale

trirāshīne hisābe gaṇatān anantajīvomānthī mātra ekajīv manuṣhya thāy.

āvun durlabh manuṣhyapaṇun chhe. draṣhṭigochar kṣhetramān rahelā karoḍo–abajo manuṣhyomān

paṇ moṭā bhāganā manuṣhyo to māns–dārū ne madh jevā abhakṣhya–sevananā pāpasamudramān

evā ḍubelā chhe ke jene dharmanā shravaṇ jeṭalā vishuddhapariṇām ja nathī.

have bākī rahelā thoḍāghaṇā manuṣhyomānthī paṇ moṭā bhāgane to kudev–kuguru–

kudharmanā sevananun evu bhūt vaḷagyun chhe ke koī paṇ jātanī vivekabuddhi vagar gāṇḍānī

māphak game te kriyāmān dharma manāvī rahyā chhe. are, jyān tīrthaṅkar bhagavānanā mārganī

dhamadhokār prarūpaṇā chāle chhe evā sonagaḍhanī najīkamān temaj saurāṣhṭranā anya shaheromān

ne bīje paṇ dharmanā nāme lākho lokone gr̥uhīt–mithyātvanun je bhūt vaḷagelun dekhāy chhe

tyāre em thāy chhe ke arere! ā jīvo manuṣhyapaṇun to pāmyā paṇ emane pañchaparameṣhṭhī

bhagavānanun nām paṇ sāmbhaḷavā na maḷ‌yun...gr̥uhītamithyātvanā bhūte emane bharamāvyā.

dhanya chhe jagatamān pañchaparameṣhṭhī bhagavanto,–ke jemanī bhaktirūp mantranā prabhāve

gr̥uhītamithyātvanun bhūt ātmānī pāse paṇ āvī shakatun nathī.

vahālā sādharmī bandhuo! jagatamān anekavidh kudharmo to sadāy rahevānā ja chhe

kemake narakādi gati paṇ sadāy bharelī ja rahevānī chhe, āpaṇe evā kudharmo sāthe kāī

nīsbat nathī. parantu kudharmanā dariyānī vachche paṇ āpaṇane bhavasamudrathī tārīne

ātmāno ānand denārā je “traṇ ratno” maḷ‌yā chhe–te jagatamān sarvashreṣhṭha chhe. āpaṇane

maḷelā e vītarāgī ratnone āpaṇe oḷakhīe...jīvanī jem enun jatan karīe, ne

emanā jevun āpaṇun jīvan banāvīe..te māṭe jarāy pramādī na thaīe, ne param

bahumānapūrvak ā sāchā traṇ ratnane sevīe...evī bhāvanāthī ahīn prāsaṅgik ullekh

karyo chhe. āpaṇā vītarāgī arhantadev, āpaṇā vītarāgī nirgranth guruo ane āpaṇā

vītarāgīshāstro e jagatamān sarvashreṣhṭha, satya ane ātmahit māṭe ratnatray denārā

chhe...tenun ja sevan karo...ne e sivāy bījā mārga taraph bhūlechūke jarāy jhāṅkhīne paṇ na

juo.

jayavant varto e ‘traṇ ratno’.......ke je ‘traṇaratnanā dātār’ chhe.