He travelled extensively in India. He had donated his only wearing apparel, the Chadar, at a public meeting held in connection with Azad Hind Army at Jabalpur in 1945. It was immediately auctioned for Rs. 3000/- for raising the funds for the army. At the age of 87, sensing his impending end, he retired to Isri Udasin Ashram, near Sammet Shikhar which he had himself helped establish. He took the vows of a Jain Muni with the name Muni 108 Ganeshkirti. He died in his final meditation (Samadhi-maran) on 5 December 1961. Works His two-volume autobiography Meri Jevan Gatha has become a major source of information about the Jain society of his time. It is written in a fluid and very readable style. The recordings of his lectures on the Samayasar have been re-discovered and digitised. They have also been published as a book. A publishing house named Shri Ganeshprasad Varni Jain Granthmala, Varanasi, named after him has published a number of important Jain texts. See also Niraj Jain Pandit Pannalal Jain, Sahityacharya Phoolchandra Shastri Notes External links Ganesh Prasad Varni Ji (1874–1961) Founder Syadwad Mahavidyalaya at Varanasi in 1905 1874 births 1949 deaths People from Madhya Pradesh 20th-century Indian philosophers Indian autobiographers Indian Jain monks 20th-century Indian Jain writers 20th-century Jain monks 20th-century Indian monks People from Lalitpur, India