Indian teen tops exams, eschews college to turn monk
Varshil Shah. PHOTO COURTESY: HINDUSTAN TIMES
An Indian teen who surfaced his state in his final exams renounced secular pleasures and committed to a stern life of a priest Thursday in an elaborate rite on a banks of a holy river.
Varshil Shah, who graduated only a fortnight ago in Gujarat with a tip probable score, emerged from a pre-dawn protocol a Jain footman with shaved conduct and white robes after receiving a blessings of his family and guru.
Today, 17-year-old Varshil Shah who scored 99.99 percentile in category XII house exams embraced a life of a Jain priest in a rite in Surat pic.twitter.com/kdqgFGUcIN
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Jains follow a despotic vegetarian diet and some monks and nuns cover their mouths with fabric to forestall them from incidentally swallowing insects.
The 17-year-old eschewed a trail so valued by Indian graduates — college and a successful pursuit — to ramble a panorama vital an ascetic life, meditating and study a scriptures.
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“I always wanted to grasp complacency but spiteful anybody. Scoring tip arrange in house exams does not give happiness,” Shah told reporters in Surat a day before his ordination.
“The element universe does not give almighty complacency that millions seek. So, we chose to turn a Jain Monk to knowledge almighty complacency but spiteful anybody.”
Shah had turn endangered with a value placed on income in society, and told his father — a taxation accountant — and mom that he wished to grasp complacency but harming others.
After many years of erratic and request Shah — who was renamed SuviryaRatna Vijayji Maharaj after a rite — can rise to a turn of guru and beam his possess disciples in a ancient Indian faith.
His uncle Nayan Sutariya, a franchised accountant, pronounced Shah had motionless to turn a priest roughly immediately after he perceived his state-topping 99.99 percent examination result.
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Hundreds of family and friends attended a ceremony, that saw Shah dressed with festooned headgear and a beige tunic before he took his vows and donned a friar uniform.
“We strongly trust that there is no genuine assent in a universe we live in. For almighty assent one has to leave everything,” Sutariya pronounced Thursday after a ceremony.
Jainism is an ancient Indian sacrament — followed by reduction than one percent of India’s 1.25 billion people — that preaches non-violence and adore for all creatures, good and small.
Article source: https://tribune.com.pk/story/1430559/indian-teenager-tops-exams-eschews-college-become-monk/