The head of Jain Shvetambar Terapanthi sect, Acharya Shri Mahaprajna, who has been spending his chaturmas period at Siriyari town in Rajasthan has been drawing thousands of visitors and devotees every day to pay their respect to him and obtain his blessings.
Alongwith the Acharya, a large number of his disciples, both sadhus and sadhvis are having their chaturmas there. The visitors calling on him include ministers, other prominent politicians, religious leaders, educationists, business men and professionals.
Recently, Sri L.K. Advani, President of Bharatiya Janta Party and Smt. Vasundhara Raje, Chief Minister of Rajasthan called on the Acharya to seek his counsel and blessings on the occasion of Acharya Bhikshu's bi-centenary celebrations.
There are excellent facilities available for stay, meals and transportation of visitors, the record number of whom has been 80,000 on a single day and average figure has been around 30-40,000. In spite of the large number of visitors pouring in every day from all over the country, everything is extremely well-organised and strict discipline is maintained. Prayers followed by Pravachan are held every morning, where thousands of devotees, both gents and ladies, shramans and shramanis, guests and visitors sit and listen the discourses with rapt attention.