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SAPTABHASHI ATMASIDDHI
Press-Brief while releasing First Typed Script of "Saptabhashi Atmasiddhi"
at Chicago 1996 100 years' celebrations of Srimad Rajchandraji's
"Sri Atma-siddhi Shastra" SRIMAD RAJCHANDRAJI, JAIN TIRTHANKARA BHAGAWAN MAHAVEERA's disciple 2500 years ago in his remote previous birth and MAHATMA GANDHIJI'S spiritual guide and Master in the Modern age, has his very unique contributions to Indian spiritual & cultural heritage and to humanity, craving for self-realisation and world peace at large. This Great Seer of modern age, who had himself preferred to remain hidden and unpropagated, needs to be introduced to the vast world standing on the thresholds of violence, stress and restlessness and which is badly in need of right guidance amidst current confusing and chaotic conditions.
This was visualized by one of his far-sighted follower and founder of SRIMAD RAJCHANDRA ASHRAM at HAMPI, Karnataka, in South India and Master of the Writer of these lines, YOGINDRA YUGАPRADHAN SRI. 'SAHAJANANDAGHANJI (BHADRAMUNI) MAHARAJ. After his visualisation of a chain of previous births' revelations at the tiny age of seven years, when he saw himself at the feet of Lord Mahaveera also 2500 years back, SRIMAD RAJCHANDRAJI went on expressing his unique philosophical truths through a number of his wonderful & subliming poems, treatise of 'MOKSHA-MALA', several guiding letters to his inmates and ultimately through his highest spiritual - philosophical immortal supreme work of SRI ATMA-SIDDHI SHASHTRA. HOW IT ORIGINATED
Amazing, soul-stirring and great research-potentialsindicating is the event of expression & manifestation of SRI ATMASIDDHI through his unique pen 100 years ago, 14 days before MAHAVEER NIRVANA anniversary of DEEPAVALI. Srimadji sits down in outward darkness but INNER LIGHT, that evening after his evening walk in the fields & forests-like solitudes of Nadiad in Gujarat..... A tremendous spontaneous overflow of poetic expressions of his highest spiritual realisations of the SELF comes out of his SUPER-CONSCIOUS being. As if sitting at the lotus feet of Lord MAHAVEERA 2500 years ago and as if listening and transmitting the Lord's Divine revelations about the SELF, Srimadji begins.
Beginning with the salutations unto the Lord, the supreme Master (SADGURU), Srimadji writes in the very first sholka/gatha/verse about the rare obligations of this Master, who has shown the right form and position of one's own Self, without knowing and understanding which one has to undergo endless sorrows in the course of wanderings through Births and Deaths. This first shloka reads 'Endless
sorrows suffered so far'. This path of realizing and freeing the self from the bondages has been almost lost into wilderness in the present times. And that is why the hidden secrets of these revelations are made known for the contemplation and following of the real seeker.
The realised Author goes on writing in his ecstatic mood with his inner light, though in the outer darkness of incoming night when one of his disciplined and dedicated disciple silently standing holds the lamp to help him write. The non-stop overflow of unparallel inner experience continued and ended at a unique stretch with 142 shlokas presenting an immortal work to guide the humanity for ages and ages to come. The revelations of the self-realisation by Srimadji not only analyses, prescribes and narrates the clearcut guidance for the true-seeker in very simple, lucid style and words, but also gives the following:
(1) A gist and synthesis of all the six Indian Philosophical schools; (2) Right, clear-cut and easy-to-reach path of self-realisation; (3) Psychological solution for one's inner peace and world-peace; (4) Background of Selfrealisation before the meditation; (5) Aesthetic, linguistic & poetic beauty of singing this song of self realisation in joyuninterrupted, self-experienceful song; (6) Comparative revealing study of 'GANADHARAVADA' of Bhagawan Mahaveer with 11 disciples in Bhadrabahu's KALPASUTRA; (7) "SAMADHI-MARANA" (leaving of body in awareness and ecstatic condition at the time of the physical DEATH) the guidance not only for his close inmate SOBHAGBHAI, but for all and for many many more things.
The uninterrupted non-stop writing of this great immortal work, like the ocean-in-a pot, is available today as the TESTIMONY in Srimadji's own beautiful, faults-free, Gujarati handwritings and is translated into several-at least seven-languages, which is extremely capable of dispelling all philosophical doubts and paving righteous pious path of the individual's and society's peaceful living. The mankind badly needs this today after 100 years of the unique birth of this great soul. SECULAR THEME - RELIGION OF SELF
The original theme of this great creation, this ever-New Testament of humanity's future secular religion of the Self or Song of Self Realisation, namely Atmasiddhi Shastra, which is bound to take place in philosophical world classic, presented here in seven lingual form Saptabhashi Atmasiddhi, is unique, all pervading and all encompassing. It deals with vital revelations of universal search of the Self, clarifying existence, eternity, doer-ship, enjoyer-ship, liberty and right religious path of the Self. Let us salute to that Explainor - Promoter - Projector of the Religion of the Self:
"Endless sorrows I suffered so far, Forgetting the Self-eliminating bondage bar; That state divine who explained and uplifted me, I bow in reverence, O Master thee!"
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