SURAT: Eight young girls, all from affluent business households, will resign worldly pleasures and develop into Jain sadhvis at a different event to be organized within the town on February 14.
The girls are aged between 14 and 27 and include one each from Karnataka, Mumbai and Rajasthan too.
Organizers Kailashnagar Jain Sangh mentioned this is a rare event the place a gaggle of women are taking diksha concurrently, the closing such programme being held about twenty years ago.
Acharya Rashmi Ratna Suriji, who has given dikshas to 414 folks until date, advised TOI, "It's a fact that this is for the first time in the past so many years that eight young women are taking diksha together." Around 18 years ago, 28 folks, mostly men, were given diksha by means of Acharya Gunratna Suriji, the instructor of Rashmi Ratna Surji. "Earlier, not more than two or three women took diksha together," he mentioned.
Pooja Chhajed, 22, daughter of an animal husbandry fodder trader in Rajasthan, is among the 8. "I had a lot of interests in life. However, my parents always wished I must take diksha and become a sadhvi. My brother could not develop the feeling of giving up worldly pleasures, but my life changed two years ago when my grandfather died," she says.
National gymnast Pooja to take diksha
My grandfathers passing away precipitated me to go to a sadhvi and spend a couple of months with her. I evolved a powerful interior feeling to resign the sector,” mentioned Pooja, who has studied until class XII.
“Once a person realizes that she or he can’t live without committing sins and hurting others, they adopt the trail of diksha,” mentioned Acharya Rashmi Ratna Surji.
Hiren Shah, whose 18-year-old niece Snehi Kothari from Palanpur may be taking diksha, mentioned, “Snehi was once strongly influenced by means of faith since her childhood. Her two aunts have additionally taken diksha and she used to live with them during her holiday. She too determined to take the similar trail.” Shah and Snehi’s father Nilesh are both diamond agents in Surat.
The 8 girls additionally include nationwide gymnastic participant from town, Pooja Shah. “Pooja has given up MCom study to develop into a sadhvi. February 14 is my birthday and she's going to give me the most productive gift of my existence by means of renouncing the sector.”
Besides those three girls, others who can be turning sadhvis are Dhruvi Kothari (24) from Surat, Sweety Sanghvi (23) from Bardoli, Mahek Kamleshbhai (14) from Mumbai, Khushi H Vishal (18) from Tumkur, Karnataka and 27-year-old Minjal Shah from Varal village of Bhavnagar.
The girls are aged between 14 and 27 and include one each from Karnataka, Mumbai and Rajasthan too.
Organizers Kailashnagar Jain Sangh mentioned this is a rare event the place a gaggle of women are taking diksha concurrently, the closing such programme being held about twenty years ago.
Acharya Rashmi Ratna Suriji, who has given dikshas to 414 folks until date, advised TOI, "It's a fact that this is for the first time in the past so many years that eight young women are taking diksha together." Around 18 years ago, 28 folks, mostly men, were given diksha by means of Acharya Gunratna Suriji, the instructor of Rashmi Ratna Surji. "Earlier, not more than two or three women took diksha together," he mentioned.
Pooja Chhajed, 22, daughter of an animal husbandry fodder trader in Rajasthan, is among the 8. "I had a lot of interests in life. However, my parents always wished I must take diksha and become a sadhvi. My brother could not develop the feeling of giving up worldly pleasures, but my life changed two years ago when my grandfather died," she says.
National gymnast Pooja to take diksha
My grandfathers passing away precipitated me to go to a sadhvi and spend a couple of months with her. I evolved a powerful interior feeling to resign the sector,” mentioned Pooja, who has studied until class XII.
“Once a person realizes that she or he can’t live without committing sins and hurting others, they adopt the trail of diksha,” mentioned Acharya Rashmi Ratna Surji.
Hiren Shah, whose 18-year-old niece Snehi Kothari from Palanpur may be taking diksha, mentioned, “Snehi was once strongly influenced by means of faith since her childhood. Her two aunts have additionally taken diksha and she used to live with them during her holiday. She too determined to take the similar trail.” Shah and Snehi’s father Nilesh are both diamond agents in Surat.
The 8 girls additionally include nationwide gymnastic participant from town, Pooja Shah. “Pooja has given up MCom study to develop into a sadhvi. February 14 is my birthday and she's going to give me the most productive gift of my existence by means of renouncing the sector.”
Besides those three girls, others who can be turning sadhvis are Dhruvi Kothari (24) from Surat, Sweety Sanghvi (23) from Bardoli, Mahek Kamleshbhai (14) from Mumbai, Khushi H Vishal (18) from Tumkur, Karnataka and 27-year-old Minjal Shah from Varal village of Bhavnagar.
Eight young women to take diksha in Surat on February 14
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