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Introduction
(ii) Philosophy of Srimad Rajchandra
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In this work Dr. Patel has rightly pointed out Śrīmad Rajchandra's contribution to philosophy, religion and spirituality.
He contends : "He (i.e. Śrimad) has rendered principles of original part of religion preached by the Jina (in its widest sense of the term), in his own unique and authentic way on the strength of his deep meditation, contemplation, higher enlightenment and deeper experience. He mainly sought the essence of all philosophy, life and religion and reality by his spiritual search, resulted from his thorough self-sincerity. The essence turned out to be self, the ultimate reality, ultimate as. we saw from all the view-points, metapliysical, epistemological, ethical and religious. So he gave harmonious integrated rendering of all knowledge regarding the self in a highly systematic manner, and it turned out to be the solution as well as a significant summing up of all the problems on self in particular, and on philosophy in general. It is in a sense. a philosophical system complete by itself. I have glimpsed it as such and have tried to introduce it in the field of comparative philosophy in the light of modem philosophical view points, in order to provide a basis
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