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9. Inspiring Experiences of Shri Mohanbhai
Shri Mohanlal Dhanji Kuria
P. Layaja Mota Tal. Mandvi (Kutch)
Thanks to infinite Punya, that I was born in a Jain family. I inherited the culture of all religious activities right from birth. I had learnt that one can get everything by Navakara; all calamities like disease, sorrow, fright can be brought to an end. I had therefore formed the habit of chanting the Navakara so that calamities came to an end.
When I was about 12, a bad boy threatened me but did not succeed. He came to slash me with a hunter. I snatched the hunter from his hand and slashed him. He began to cry and brought his leader. I ran home and hid myself beneath the cot and started chanting the Navakara. My grandmother reconciled him and sent him back. I was saved. My faith in the Navakara got strengthened.
I was easily irritable and subject to anger now and then. I was keen on improvement and so took to Pratikramana, Chaityavandana, Samayika, austerities, hearing of lectures, reading of scriptures and so on. Still, my anger did not subside or lessen. Once after my marriage / slapped my father; I was used to thrash my daughter aged 15 years. My wife could not bear all this and was used to tell me : "With so much of dharma, why so much of anger? This is not proper." I used to reply : "Anger under good intentions is not prohibitive."
But, at my age of 23, I came to know that -
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