An Ahmedabad businessman has donated his life earnings value over Rs 200 crore as he and his spouse are set to undertake monkhood subsequent week. Impressed by their youngsters to “stroll on the trail of renunciation and salvation”, Bhavesh Bhandari and his spouse Jinal Bhandari say the choice was not straightforward. “It was onerous for me to persuade my mother and father to offer me the permission to take the pledge of monkhood. ‘It’s too early, take some extra time,’ they informed me. However I remained agency. Now, my father and my elder brother will deal with the enterprise. I’ve determined to decide on the best path for dwelling, and for that I’ve chosen monkhood. I’ve lived a lavish life and haven’t confronted any difficulties… not even in my enterprise. I’m proud of the choice,” Bhavesh Bhandari informed The Indian Categorical on Monday.
The Jain couple will take the pledge with 33 others from the neighborhood on the Sabarmati Riverfront in Ahmedabad on April 22 at an elaborate diksha ceremony. Among the many 35 mumukshus, who will resign all worldly pleasures to hunt liberation, 10 are beneath 18.
Bhandari is an actual property businessman. In 2022, his 19-year-old daughter and 16-year-old son adopted monkhood at one such occasion in Surat underneath the steering of Acharya Dev Vijay Yog Tilak Suriji Maharaj. In keeping with the Bhandari household, they’ve been following the teachings of the non secular chief for practically 10 years. Earlier too, the businessman has donated for neighborhood and diksha occasions organised in several components of Gujarat.
“We now have a household enterprise. We primarily take care of finance and land builders. We take care of enterprise finance, auto finance and different funds run by the title of Simandhar Finance. pursued BBA (Bachelors of Enterprise Administration) and later joined our household enterprise. I’m the proprietor of the corporate and my father Girish Bhandari and my elder brother Riddhish Bhandari, are additionally caring for the enterprise.”
Aside from the Bhandari household, others who will take pledge of monkhood from Acharya Yogtilaksuriji Maharaj on the occasion are Sanjaybhai Sadariya, a textile dealer primarily based in Surat, and his spouse Binaben. The couple’s son and daughter had taken diksha in 2021.
Now after the monkhood pledge, the entire household will reside in a unique Upashray (non secular resting place of a Jain priest).
Jashvant Shah, one other Surat-based textile dealer, and his spouse Dipika may even take diksha (pledge of monhood), strolling on the footsteps of their sons who took the pledge a yr in the past.
Another couple from Surat — Jagdish Shah and his spouse Shilpa — will take diksha whereas their solely son took the pledge in 2021.
The five-day dikha occasion will begin on April 18, and is predicted to see a gathering of hundreds from the Jain neighborhood from India and overseas. The grand ceremony might be held at Sabarmati Riverfront. The primary pavilion on the venue could have seating preparations of 30,000 individuals. Within the evening, over 2,000 lamps will gentle up the place, based on individuals within the know.