A spiritual couple from Madhya Pradesh renounced their material wealth and has decided to embrace monk-hood. In joining the ‘Shwetambar‘ (white clad) order of their religion, they will gift their three-year-old daughter property “worth Rs 100 crore”.
Their family members said the couple has been married for four years and has a daughter. Currently, they have taken a vow of silence. The couple will be initiated in Jain monasticism at a ceremony to be held in Surat on 23 September by Sudhamargi Jain Acharya Ramlal Maharaj.
As per the monk-hood tradition, their heads will be shaved and they will put on white robes for their entire life. The couple will start wearing mouth-clothes as per the tradition after the deeksha ceremony. The mouth cloth is worn by Jain hermits so that they do not swallow any living creature like flies etc. even by an accident while they are talking.
Anamika’s father Ashok Chandaliya, a former Neemuch district president of the BJP, said he would take care of his grand-daughter. “I am not against my daughter Anamika becoming a nun,” he said. Sumit’s father Rajendra Singh, who runs a factory manufacturing gunny bags for packaging cement, also echoed a similar view.
According to a family member, Anamika did her BE from Modi Engineering College at Laxmangarh in Sikar in Rajasthan. She had worked with Hindustan Zinc before her marriage. Sumit holds a diploma in import-export management from a college in London, where he worked for two
years before returning to Neemuch to look after his family business.
Sumit owns properties “running into Rs 100 crore”. Jainism emphasises on non-violence and vegetarianism and is followed by less than one per cent of the country’s total population.
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