“Poojya Gurudev Na Hote To Aaj Kya Hota? Sat Darshan Ka Surya Ast Ho Gaya Hota”.
The person who brought a new revolution in Jain society and explained our soul`s features. The one who explained true path of liberation for continuous 45 years. As Shri Krishna’s flute was making people mad, our Sadguru Dev Shri Kanji Swami’s divine tune, way of speaking .The person whom people called sea of peace, sun of knowledge, idol of mercy, pillar of Jainism in present modern world. He was not a God but a man who told about God. The creator of spiritual era.He was a glorious personality. His substance was of “Teerthankar”. To have birth in such Shri Gurudev’s era is a most rare opportunity.He was no one other than POOJYA GURUDEV SHREE KANJI SWAMI.
Poojya Gurudev Shree Kanji swami was born in Umrala village Gujarat, on Vaisakh Sudi Dooj Vikram samvat 1947,Sunday, in the early morning. His mother`s name was Smt. Ujamba & father`s name was Shree Motichand Bhai. He belonged to Sthanakvasi Jain family. He was tall, handsome boy whose eyes were showing unprecedented personality of high intelligence and strength. He always stood first in school and in Jain pathshala. He was not satisfied by this worldly study. He was feeling intensely, that ‘what I am searching is not this’.
Once his pain for searching what he wanted was so intense that as a child separated from his mother & what is his condition that way Pujya Gurudev by the separation of truth once wept too much. He was always searching for the truth as he was of religious mind. He was called BHAGAT. At the age of 22 he decided not to marry and then observed austerities in Sthanakvasi Jain. He read many Shwetambar Scriptures and preached in so impressed way that people called him ‘KOHINOOR OF KATHIAWAD’.
He was hard worker and he said that, by hard work one can bring his cosmos to an end. He was not satisfied. Once he found out one great sacred scripture namely SAMAYSAR written by Aacharya Kundkund. What he wanted, he attained. He achieved unprecedented joy by reading this sacred scripture and there came a revolutionary change in his life. He abandoned Sthanakvasi Jain religious sect and declared himself as accomplisher of AATMA and celibate follower of DIGAMBAR JAIN DHARMA on Chaitra Shukla Trayodashi, Tuesday (Mahavir Jayanti) Vikram Samvat 1992 in front of Lord Parshvanath’s photograph in STAR OF INDIA(Songarh). This made a commotion became terrible opposition, but for the truth, he left what he feft untrue- came at songadh, set down alone in lonely place flow of people turned towards this true GURUDEVSHRI. Hearing his speech, hundreds of knowledged personalities were surprising & were telling the goodness of Gurudev only. He was preaching SAMAYSAR, NIYAMSAR, etc. scriptures. He showed form of 9 elements, form of SyadVad. He left his pupil disabled on Vikram Samvat 2037, Maghsir Krishna Saptami, Friday (28-11-1980) at the age of 91years.
He was a glorious personality. His substance was of “Teerthankar”. To have birth in such Shri Gurudev’s era is a most rare opportunity.
Teerthdham Mangalayatan was built by the auspicious manifestation of respected Gurudev Shree, his devotee hon’ble CHAMPABEN, all other judicious great personalities and by support of co-religious kinsmen.
For him Samyak darshan (right faith) was a prerequisite to any meaningful progress upon the spiritual path. "The real path lies in self-experience of the soul after securing itself in Samyak darshan". He was convinced that the three jewels of Samyak darshan, Samyak gyan and Samyak charitra (right faith, right knowledge and right conduct) could only function effectively on the basis of a prior experience of the soul, and considered the various rituals and merit-making practices as subordinate. In an interview in 1977 he denied being hostile to the traditional Jain monk-hood and regarded them as personifying the fundamental principles of Jainism. However, he also pointed out that taking up formal initiation and behavioural practices, like the abandonment of clothes (common for Digamber monks) and other possessions, could not make an individual a true monk unless he had abandoned internal possessions as well.
Poojya Gurudev Shree Kanji swami was born in Umrala village Gujarat, on Vaisakh Sudi Dooj Vikram samvat 1947,Sunday, in the early morning. His mother`s name was Smt. Ujamba & father`s name was Shree Motichand Bhai. He belonged to Sthanakvasi Jain family. He was tall, handsome boy whose eyes were showing unprecedented personality of high intelligence and strength. He always stood first in school and in Jain pathshala. He was not satisfied by this worldly study. He was feeling intensely, that ‘what I am searching is not this’.
Once his pain for searching what he wanted was so intense that as a child separated from his mother & what is his condition that way Pujya Gurudev by the separation of truth once wept too much. He was always searching for the truth as he was of religious mind. He was called BHAGAT. At the age of 22 he decided not to marry and then observed austerities in Sthanakvasi Jain. He read many Shwetambar Scriptures and preached in so impressed way that people called him ‘KOHINOOR OF KATHIAWAD’.
He was hard worker and he said that, by hard work one can bring his cosmos to an end. He was not satisfied. Once he found out one great sacred scripture namely SAMAYSAR written by Aacharya Kundkund. What he wanted, he attained. He achieved unprecedented joy by reading this sacred scripture and there came a revolutionary change in his life. He abandoned Sthanakvasi Jain religious sect and declared himself as accomplisher of AATMA and celibate follower of DIGAMBAR JAIN DHARMA on Chaitra Shukla Trayodashi, Tuesday (Mahavir Jayanti) Vikram Samvat 1992 in front of Lord Parshvanath’s photograph in STAR OF INDIA(Songarh). This made a commotion became terrible opposition, but for the truth, he left what he feft untrue- came at songadh, set down alone in lonely place flow of people turned towards this true GURUDEVSHRI. Hearing his speech, hundreds of knowledged personalities were surprising & were telling the goodness of Gurudev only. He was preaching SAMAYSAR, NIYAMSAR, etc. scriptures. He showed form of 9 elements, form of SyadVad. He left his pupil disabled on Vikram Samvat 2037, Maghsir Krishna Saptami, Friday (28-11-1980) at the age of 91years.
He was a glorious personality. His substance was of “Teerthankar”. To have birth in such Shri Gurudev’s era is a most rare opportunity.
Teerthdham Mangalayatan was built by the auspicious manifestation of respected Gurudev Shree, his devotee hon’ble CHAMPABEN, all other judicious great personalities and by support of co-religious kinsmen.
GURUDEV AAYE RE , BADE HI SAUBHAGYA SE , GOONJ GAYA BHARAT SARA , OOMKAAR NAAD SE.
Gurudevshri's Discourses:-
Ignoring mundane topics such as dietary prescriptions, on the basis that all Jains would know about such matters, he directed his teachings to the subject of the soul and to Acharya KundKund's representation of it as the one eternal and unconditional entity. Kanji Swami's insistence on the primacy of the absolute level of truth over the relative one of ordinary life is obvious from his frequent comment: "Please try to understand. No soul, with or without knowledge, has the slightest ability to move even a particle. In such circumstances, how can it do anything to the human body, or to any other thing for that matter?"For him Samyak darshan (right faith) was a prerequisite to any meaningful progress upon the spiritual path. "The real path lies in self-experience of the soul after securing itself in Samyak darshan". He was convinced that the three jewels of Samyak darshan, Samyak gyan and Samyak charitra (right faith, right knowledge and right conduct) could only function effectively on the basis of a prior experience of the soul, and considered the various rituals and merit-making practices as subordinate. In an interview in 1977 he denied being hostile to the traditional Jain monk-hood and regarded them as personifying the fundamental principles of Jainism. However, he also pointed out that taking up formal initiation and behavioural practices, like the abandonment of clothes (common for Digamber monks) and other possessions, could not make an individual a true monk unless he had abandoned internal possessions as well.
