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Gujarat Jain couple donate Rs 200 crore wealth, resign world

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A Gujarat-based businessman and his spouse have donated their lifetime earnings of Rs 200 crore and have taken the choice to resign all materialistic wishes to turn into Jain monks. In February this yr, Bhavesh Bhandari and his spouse donated all their wealth throughout a ceremony. The Bhandari household, which hails from Himmatnagar, has been within the development enterprise. The household determined to observe within the footsteps of their 16-year-old son and 19-year-old daughter, who adopted monkhood in 2022.

Bhavesh Bhandari, who belongs to a Jain household, had been part of development enterprise in Ahmedabad and Sabarkantha and was accustomed to a lifetime of luxurious and prosperity from a younger age. The Bhandari couple was accompanied by 35 people in February and led a 4 km procession throughout which they donated all their belongings, from cellphones to air conditioners. A brief video clip from the occasion exhibits the couple sporting regal apparel on prime of a chariot and making donations. Adorned in wealthy apparel and jewelry, they stood atop a truck adorned to resemble a chariot, tossing clothes and banknotes to the individuals standing beneath,

After the couple made their pledge on April 22 to undertake monkhood, the couple goes to interrupt all familial relations and resign any materials possessions and wishes. Afterwards, they are going to start a barefoot journey throughout India and can maintain themselves solely on alms.

In line with stories the couple will probably be allowed to personal two white clothes, an alms bowl, and a rajoharan, a white broom utilized by Jain monks to clear bugs from an space earlier than sitting — an emblem of the non-violent path which they observe. In an identical incident in January, the 8-year-old daughter of a Gujarati diamond service provider renounced materials comforts and worldly wishes to embrace monkhood. Devanshi Sanghv had participated in a grand procession with camels, elephants, horses and nice fanfare earlier than embracing a lifetime of monkhood.

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