Atmadharma magazine - Ank 359 (simplified iso15919 transliteration). Page: 45.

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* pū. gurudevanī maṅgalachhāyāmān āpaṇun ātmadharma–māsik āvatā aṅke trīs varṣha

pūrā karashe. darek aṅk vāñchī–vāñchīne jignāsuo potāno ātmaras vadhārīne

pramod jāher kare chhe. trīs hajār jeṭalā jignāsuono dhārmik prem ane

vātsalya e ‘ātmadharma’ nī moṭī mūḍī chhe; āvā kāḷamān āvī ūñchī

adhyātmavastunā hajāro grāhako maḷavā te gurudevano prabhāv chhe ne te

ātmadharmanun gaurav chhe. daravarṣhe badhā grāhako potānī meḷe ja lavājam mokalī

āpīne vyavasthāmān sundar sahakār āpī rahyā chhe. āp paṇ vīr nirvāṇ samvat

rapa00nun āpanun lavājam ‘chār rūpiyā’ ātmadharma kāryālay, sonagaḍh

364rapa0 e saranāme velāsar mokalī āpasho. ātmadharma–māsik darek

aṅgrejī mahinānī dashamī tārīkhe sonagaḍhathī poṣhṭa thāy chhe. dinedine vadhatī

moṅghavārīne hisābe ātmadharmanun kharcha vadhu āvatun hovā chhatān, jignāsu

vāñchakonā sahakārathī tenun lavājam mātra chār rūpiyā chhe te ja chālu rākhavāmān

āvyun chhe. gatavarṣha daramiyān “ātmadharmanā prachār māṭe” jignāsuo taraphathī

sātek hajār rūpiyā āvelā, jenī yādī ātmadharmamān avār–navār pragaṭ

thayel chhe, te ja mujab prachāravibhāganī yojanā chālu rākhīne, lavājam na

vadhāravānun mānanīy pramukhashrīnī āgnāthī nakkī karavāmān āvyun chhe. āvatun

varṣha e vīranirvāṇanun rapa00 mun varṣha chhe. āp ātmadharmano vadhune vadhu prachār

karīne vīramārganī prabhāvanāmān sāth āpo.

* rājakoṭathī bhāīshrī maṇibhāī udāṇī gurudev pratye ane ātmadharma pratye pramod

vyakta karatān lakhe chhe ke–“ātmadharma” hun barābar mananapūrvak vāñchun chhun ane

temānā lekho ghaṇā ūñchā ane ātmānubhav karavā jevā hoy chhe. gnānano lābh

ghaṇā māṇaso laī shake chhe. pūjyapād ātmagnānī mahārājashrī kānajīsvāmīne

mārā savinay pāyavandan kahesho. jainadharmamān je gnān chhe te bīje kyāy nathī.

rāg–dveṣh–mohathī ātmāne bhinna samajī mokṣha meḷavavāno mārga te darshāve chhe.

* dev–shāstra–gurunun bahumān : ek gāmamān sonagaḍhanā mumukṣhuo dvārā dev–

shāstra–gurunān vakhāṇ ane bahumān dekhīne ek māṇasane āshcharya thayun ke–ā loko

āṭalun badhun bahumān kem kare chhe? –are bhāī! āpaṇe āpaṇā vītarāgī dev–