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Chapter I
INTRODUCTION
1. Primary Sources
The present work is an elaboration upon a former dissertation entitled Śrīmad Rajchandra's Doctrine of Ātma-dharma and Atma-siddhi', which won the author M. Phil. degree of the University of Poona in 93. The M.Phil. dissertation briefly dealt with the core of Śrīmad's philosophy and spirituality, namely, his doctrine of Atma-dharma and Atma-siddhi as discussed in his outstanding workAtma-siddhi. In the present work. however, an attempt has been made to study Śrīmad's philosophy and spirituality in all its important aspects as expressed in all his writings and as exemplified in his very short but spiritually significant and rich life.
Śrīmad Rajchandra was one of the outstanding ethico-religious Indian philosophers who flourished in the later half of the nineteenth century of Christie
