CNN Central News & Network–ITDC India Epress/ITDC News Bhopal: A Gujarati couple has reportedly decided to renounce their properties worth Rs 200 crore to attain monkhood. Bhavesh Bhandari and his wife will leave the rest of their lives seeking alms from the public, the report added.
After the decision was finalised, the Bhandaris led a procession of scores of people, donating their possessions. During the 4-kilometre-long tour, they gave away valuables including their mobile phones and air conditioners to people, NDTV said.
Hailing from Himmatnagar, Bhavesh Bhandari was in the construction industry. On April 22, the couple decided to let go of all their materialistic assets and sever all family ties, NDTV said in a report. According to the report, they are not the first in the family to embrace monkhood in the family.
In 2022, the two teenage children of the couple did the same. People close to the Bhandari household said that the businessman and his wife were inspired by the lifestyle chosen by their 19-year-old daughter and 16-year-old son — ultimately deciding to follow suit by “renouncing their material attachments and join the ascetic path”.