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12. Revolver Transformed Just Into a Play-toy
It was just sunrise. The highway between two cities in Maharashtra, Dhulia and Panchora was humming with life due to the movement of vehicles. On this highway, some fifty to seventyfive years back, so many varied vehicles were in motion. In one buggy (victoria) some Europeans and Shri Khimjibhai Hirji Lodaya, a devout and staunch Jaina, were proceeding from Dhulia to go to Panchora. Khimjibhai held a good command over English; he was very often in contact with foreigners because of his business dealings. He could therefore converse in fluent beautiful English.
Khimjibhai held unstinted and deep faith in the glorious Navakara Mantra. He claimed and rightly too that he could maintain his Jaina faith in spite of his constant contact with foreigners, thanks to the great and glaring influence of this lofty Navakara Mantra. He therefore muttered and chanted the Navakara Mantra with utmost regularity. He also had chances to explain to these foreigners, the terror that meat-eating was. Under these eventualities it was this Navakara Mantra that came to his rescue.
While they were on their way to Panchora from Dhulia, the topic of dialogue, with the foreigners for Khimjibhai was "the magnaminity of the Indian culture." The dialogue was on in a pleasant atmosphere. All of a sudden the dialogue had a jolt and disturbance. Fond of hunting that the Europeans were, they saw a herd of deer at a distance and became ready to draw their revolvers.
Khimjibhai in no time understood the intention and he said :
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