Atmadharma magazine - Ank 359 (simplified iso15919 transliteration). Page: 46.

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shāstra–gurunun bahumān nahi karīe to konun bahumān karīshun? mumukṣhuo

jinavāṇīnī prashansā nahi kare to konī karashe? –pachhī te jinavāṇī bhale

samayasārādi paramāgamorūpe gunthāyelī hoy ke ‘ātmadharma’ rūpe gunthāyelī hoy...

ke bījā koī paṇ pustakarūpe hoy, –paṇ je jinavāṇī āpaṇane shuddhātmasvarūp

dekhāḍe chhe te mātā jinavāṇī sadāy pūjya chhe. –prashansanīy chhe... ethī jeṭalī

prashansā karīe, enun jeṭalun sanmān karīe teṭalun ochhun chhe, ek mumukṣhune to

gnān ane rāganī bhinnatā vāñchīne ātmadharma pratye evo pramod āvī gayo ke

argha chaḍāvīne tenī pūjā karī–e vāt prasiddha chhe. shrīmad rājachandrajīe paṇ

rūpiyāno thāḷ bharīne samayasāranun param sanmān karyun hatun; enā pratāpe to

‘shrīmad rājachandra jain granthamāḷā’ taraphathī samayasār prasiddhimān āvyun, te gurudev

(kānajīsvāmī) nā hāthamān āvyun ne teno āṭalo mahān prachār thayo. ā

rīte ātma–upakārī dev–shāstra–gurunun param bahumān darek mumukṣhune hoy chhe, ne

teno mahimā dekhīne tene prasannatā thāy chhe. –kemake, ‘न हि कृतमुपकारं साधवो विस्मरन्ति। ’

* vītarāg vignānanā prachāranī bhāvanā: be mās pahelānn vidishānagarī

(madhyapradesh) mān svādhyāyamandiranā udghāṭan prasaṅge bhāṣhaṇamān sheṭhashrī

pūranachandrajī godīkāe gnānano mahimā batāvatān kahyun ke– “īs svādhyāyamandiramen

beṭhakar dharmījīv tattva abhyās kareṅge aur apane agnānakā nāsh karake

mokṣhamārgakā udghāṭan kareṅge! jīvanamen yadi kuchh prāpta karane lāyak hai to ekamātra

vītarāgavignān hī hai! gnānake samān jagatamen aur koī padārtha sukhakā kāraṇ

nahīn hai! ... main jainasamājase yah apekṣhā rakhūṅgā ki... apane bālakomme

vītarāgavignānakā bījāropaṇ karen! lābh lenevāle hajāron bālakommense

yadi ek–do bālakonne bhī ātmasvarūpakī prāpti kar lī to ve siddhadashāko

shīghra prāpta hoṅge! ”

e ja vidishā nagaramān pāñchamī prashikṣhaṇ–shibiranī pūrṇatā prasaṅge adhyakṣha

sthānethī gayā shaher (bihār) nā shrīmān sheṭhashrī gajānandajī pāṭanīe paṇ bāḷakone

dharmashikṣhā āpavā māṭe bhārapūrvak kahyun ke–samājako īn lākhon rūpiyā kharcha karanese kyā

lābh hotā hai jabaki hamāre bālakoṅko dharmashikṣhā bhī prāpta nahīn ho pātī? ājake yugamen

dharmaprachārake nāmapar baḍībaḍī īmāratommen paisā ḍālanā athavā anek melon ādike

nāmapar lākhon rūpayā vyay kar deneke bajāy aise tattvaprachārake ṭhos kāmommen paisā

lagāyā jānā adhik āvashyak hai. īsīse sachchā dharmaprachār hogā, –aisā merā vishvās

hai! pūjya shrī kānajīsvāmīkā ham sab par mahān–mahān upakār hai, unhīṅke dvārā āj

sāre bhāratamen chetanā jāgr̥ut huī hai!!