Atmadharma magazine - Ank 307 (simplified iso15919 transliteration). Page: 28.

* shrī kahān–ratnachintāmaṇi–jayantimahotsav visheṣhāṅk *

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gurudevanā janmakāḷ vakhatanī paristhiti joīe to–

evā e kaḷikāḷamān jagatanā kāī puṇya bākī hatān,

jignāsu hr̥udayo hatā talasatā sad vastune bheṭavā;

evā kaiṅk prabhāvathī bharatamān o kahān tun ūtare,

andhāre ḍubatā akhaṇḍ satane tun prāṇavantu kare.

gurudevanā janmathī yuganān endhāṇ palaṭāvān māṇḍyān, rāgapoṣhak ruḍhigat

kriyākāṇḍane badale adhyātmagnānano ane jinendrabhaktino yug sarajāvā māṇḍyo.

ujamabāne kyān kalpanāy hatī ke pote jene hīranī dorīe hīñchoḷe chhe te kumvar ekavār

ākhāy bhāratane adhyātmarasanā jhūle jhulāvashe. be varṣhanān bāḷapaṇ vakhate emanī

bahen ‘hari’ emane khoḷāmān laīne meḍī uparanī bārīmān besatī eṭalun gurudevane

smaraṇamān āve chhe. te vakhate phaḷiyāmānthī ūñche najar karatān meḍīnī je bārīmān

kahānakumvar dekhātā, āje e ja bārīmān sīmandharanāthanā darshan thāy chhe. kyān e

vakhatanun sthānakavāsīnun ghar, ne kyān ājanun sīmandharajin–chaityālay! jemanā pratāpathī

ek jūnumpurāṇun ghar sundar jinālayamān palaṭāī gayun. temanā pratāpe ātmānun rūp paṇ

paramātmarūpamān palaṭāvā lāge to shun āshcharya chhe!! kharekhar gurudeve ātmasādhanāno

adhyātmapanth darshāvīne bhāratanā khuṇekhuṇethī hajāro jīvone jāgr̥ut karyā chhe. saurāṣhṭramān

to digambar jainadharmanun navasarjan temaṇe ja karyun chhe.

saurāṣhṭramān to digambar jainadharmane ‘kānajīsvāmīno dharma’ –em kahīne loko

oḷakhavā lāgyā, –ā uparathī khyāl āve chhe ke di. jainadharmanī prabhāvanā karavā māṭe

temanī keṭalī bhāre prasiddhi chhe! pū. gurudeve antarvalaṇapūrvak shodhelo paramasatya

ātmamārga digambar jainadharma jem jem prasiddha thato gayo tem tem vadhu ne vadhu

jignāsuo tenā pratye ākarṣhātā gayā, ṭher ṭher mumukṣhuonā maṇḍaḷo sthapāyān.

sampradāyatyāgathī jāgelo vaṇṭoḷiyo shamī gayo. gurudev din pratidin vadhu ne vadhu

khīlatā gayā.

dhārmik shikṣhaṇavarga

mātra moṭī ummaranā gr̥uhastho ja nahi parantu nānī ummaranā bāḷakoy gurudevanā

tattvagnānamān utsāhathī bhāg le chhe; eṭale vidyārthīo unāḷānī doḍh māsanī

rajāono sadupayog karīne tattvagnān pāme te hetuthī san. 1997 thī dar varṣhe dhārmik

shikṣhaṇavarga kholāy chhe, –jemān seṅkaḍo vidyārthīo utsāhathī bhāg le chhe, tenī parīkṣhāo

levāy chhe ne īnāmo apāy chhe. e ja rīte san. 2004 thī darek varṣhe shrāvaṇ māsamān

prauḍhagr̥uhastho māṭe paṇ shikṣhaṇavarga chāle chhe, temān paṇ gāmogāmanā