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sadhuis, shrasakas and shravikas, better known as 'Chatur sidh Sangh' for delivering His usual everyday unrhetorical sermon. He speaks quiet's almost consersationally and reminds His listeners of a faith they had quite forgotten - ma faith that puts power in the soul, su ceps away fear and self doubt and crables the believer to triumph over any odds; at the same time His words gne to the audience the eternal for which they might not have receised from any where clsc; His sermons are not more words; they're power - distilled poner which hasc such a magic spell that they install the hearts of the listeners with the spirit of retolt against their enemics siz...... irchgiousness, exploitations, violence, corruption and disturbances that hang loose 'on all sides. This proves that religious guidance stimulates the flow of healing faith hithereto shakened in the ultimate power and nightiousness of soul.
The 'PARAKHDA' (audience) scem sct as prelis as a picturc and the whole pandal scemed to be decoratively dotted by many of the pursy shravakas so thcir nice white spotless kurtas with guy multicoloured turbans, shrasskas clad in deep red and blue clothes in quaint designs but observing 'Purdah', though with few exceptions seca in younger generation, gave an exhibition of old orthodoxy, sadhus and sadhvis in their usual white clothes, their bare heads shinag bright like tropical sun, completely to be wrapped up in and to be on the qui vive for the protection
| SR No. | 011063 |
| Book Title | Jainism and Modern Thought |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | M M Shroff |
| Publisher | M M Shroff |
| Publication Year | 1956 |
| Total Pages | 103 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 3 MB |