Within four hundred and twenty-three months: Such penance is done not by body power, but by the grace of God-Guru.

- Tribute to Amrit - Acharya Vijayarajaratnasuri

- Borivali-Jamligali Jain Sangh buses are running for three months. This year, the highest number of mass mascots in all of India is 423.

Just as air is an essential organ to sustain the body, food is also an essential organ. If a person does not get even a single particle of food as food for a day or two, he will immediately become weak. Despite this common experience, when we see a person fasting for thirty days in a row without any food, it becomes natural to believe that the phenomenon is nothing short of a sattvic miracle. Medical science believes that if a person is completely deprived of food for twenty-five days, he will almost reach the state of near death. But the sacrifice of the Jain rule, which has the great glory of tapa, is that in it, not one-two-five, but hundreds of ascetic devotees perform thirty-thirty fasts in a row with a smile on their face. At present, we and our disciples, in the only four Sanghs in Mumbai where Chaturmas is, 423 ascetics are practicing this thirty-month fasting month in a row, and in our Chaturmasakshetra Borivali-Jamligali Jain Sangh alone, there are only three Sanghs. This year, the highest number of mass mascots in all of India is 423.

The question is, what is the main driving force behind the penance of such a large number of ascetics? Body-power? Our answer is no. If this Mrtyunjaya-Masakshamanatap was performed only by physical strength, it would not have happened that someone with strong physical strength would have had to give up that tapu incompletely and only eleven-twelve year old children would have completed this Mrityunjayatap very quietly. This is what happens before our eyes, so we say that this mahatap is done with the power of the mind more than the body power, and even more specially, it is due to the grace received from the unwavering faith in God-Guru. One of the methods of the Jain tradition that reinforces this view is to recall here that when an ascetic is asked to calm down, the answer is 'Dev-Guru Pasay.' Want to know how wonderful the grace of this Deva-Guru is to perform unimaginable penance? So read some of these four hundred and twenty-three monthly occasions:

1) Child in age..but Tap Kamal: Child and fasting: Generally this is the opposite. Because the child cannot tolerate hunger at all and is quickly attracted to his favorite dish. But the 11-year-old childcare worker of the Jamligalisangh has proved this assumption wrong. He did the masakshaman. But its essence-determination is salutary. On the first day of the public fast, he performed eight fasts in a spirit of self-sacrifice. Then on the ninth day, when the new pachakkhana came, her father told her to go on the eighth day, that is, the three fasts. That Sattvasheel child said in our ears: 'Sahebji, I have to observe only eight fasts in a row. Give it to me, it will be done. ' And he slammed Atwai. By fasting in the seventies, he performed fourteen fasts in a row. Such penance is almost impossible for an eleven-year-old child. The name of this Balatpasvi is Jinay Sachin Shah.

Similarly, in Borivali-Carter Road Sangh, twelve-year-old Balatpasvi Nir Prakash Chheda and Jainam Sakesh Kothari, Kandivali-Mahavirnagar Jain Sangh's Balatpasvi Stuti-Jia-Aashi as well as Ms. Haley and Soumya Hirani doing masakshaman in Jamligali. All of these children are between the ages of twelve and fourteen. All calmly and firmly perform this death. Watching the events of these eight child ascetics, one has to accept that menstruation is done by the grace of a special deity-guru rather than by the power of the body.

3) Chovihar Masakshaman: Abandoning not only food for thirty days, but also water: Absolute abstinence from using water for thirty days like food is called Chovihar Masakshaman in Jain tradition. Such menstruation is very rare - 'rarest'. Of the five Chaturmas we have in the eleven hundred Atwanu Massaksman, one is Kayurbhai of Irani Wadi Sangh and the other is Ranjanben of Mahavirnagar Sangh. It can be said that there are many times more difficulty in using water than in fasting for sixty consecutive days. These rare ascetic ascetics must be worshiped from the heart.

3) The highest faith of the highly educated: Smitbhai is a young professor who teaches CA students. He has to talk for four hours every morning as he conducts four hours of 'online' CA classes. However, in the Jamligalisangh, when the drums of Sumah Masakshaman sounded, he also faithfully joined the Masakshaman. Rather than teaching along with fasting, this ascetic has proved that he has higher education as well as higher faith. One such young teacher. Paragishah. He also conducts daily six hours of online study. This teacher will continue to do the study till the last fast so that the study of the students does not stop. The specialty of Paragi Shah is that in the same family besides her husband Akash and father-in-law Rajendrabhai also do masakshaman.

2) With youth .. So the color of youth: A nice line is written for youth that:

'What is youth? Lightning,

If it shines, it is light, if not, it will explode. '

If the hotel-bottle and its totals represent the youth who make life degenerate, then the youth involved in the mahalaher of these masakshamans represent the enlightenment. Let us look at only two incidents of these youths: A young man named Nikunj Shah was doing Vardhamantap, so he had no intention of menstruation. But as he was in daily discourse, on the beginning of the month, he performed three fasts - Atvam - in honor of the ascetics.

After listening to the discourses for the next three days and realizing that his welfare friend Amar was fasting for sixteen consecutive days, on the fourth day he suddenly performed sixteen fasting fasts for us. Oops! For ten days he did not even talk about these fasts in the family. The second incident was that in the name of fortune and salvation, which came together in the building discourses at Carter Road, the spirit of masakshaman was manifested in the youth and because of this, all the seven youths of his friends got involved in masakshamana. An ascetic by the name of Nidhisha Shah, who quit his job due to lack of leave in his job, is also in this month's Mahayagna, while non-Jain devotees like Brinda Shah and another Maharashtrian are also performing this death.

2) Sattvasheel seekers of consecutive fasts: According to the Jain method, the more fasting a devotee takes, the more fasting he has to do. The maximum number of such fasts should be sixteen, so it is scientific not to take the next one at a time. It often happens that the ascetics go on fasting for one or three days in a row. But in these four hundred and twenty-three months, unimaginable events took place due to the essence of the seekers. On the first day, the number of seekers who fasted eight-nine-eleven in a row and sixteen fasts was found in four Sanghs. The total number of buses was about eighty. Hey The ascetics who took the last fourteen consecutive fasts on the seventeenth day of the month also had more than one hundred and forty pistols. It is not possible to take such a large number of fast fasts in a row without the highest contentment. While a psychic ascetic performs masakshmana with physical rejoicing amidst physical disability, an ascetic saint is performing the fourteenth masakshmana this year in the nineteenth consecutive year.

The conclusion of these venerable words of the Mahalaher of the Masakshamans is to bow to all the four hundred and twenty-three Mrtyunjaya Tapasadhaks and say the same, 'No heat without penance .. No purification without heat. And no achievement without purification. '