Pinnacle Of Spirituality

SR No.: 032343
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Kumarpal Desai
Publisher: Raj Saubhag Satsang Mandal
Publication Year: 2000
Total Pages: 188
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 42 MB

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74. The Ultimate Truth
hrimad arrived in Ahmedabad. Many monks had gathered in Naroda, which was then a village on the outskirts of the city. It was decided that Shrimad and the monks should meet at the outskirts and then proceed to the forest. The monks were awaiting Shrimad, and he arrived a few minutes later, accompanied by the mumukshus (his disciples). He saw that the monks were bare-footed. “Their feet must be scorched," he thought to himself and then, removing his footwear, he set off, followed by the monks and the mumukshus. The entire group sat under a banyan tree to rest for a while. Shrimad's feet had become red in the heat, having walked barefoot, but he did not seem to care. He then turned to Munishri Devkaranji and told him: "We want to lead a life of total detachment and do not wish to meet others. The soul now wishes to remain in control of its senses."
From Ahmedabad, Shrimad wrote to Munishri Lalluji, advising him: "....the seed that has been planted, do not dig it out, for it will bear fruit."
Shrimad then went on to Vavania where he stayed for three months. He then went to Morvi for a month, where he gave a series of spiritual lectures. From Morvi he proceeded to Wadhwan. Shrimad found society with no sense of the true message of Bhagwan Mahavir, and to educate such a society, it would need books. Despite his extremely poor health, in Vikram Samvat 1956, he set up in Wadhvan the Paramshrut Prabhavak Mandal (Society for the Distribution of the True Teachings) with the aim of publishing the unknown works of great Acharyas. Under its auspices, and as a result of the efforts of Ambalalbhai and Shrimad's younger brother Mansukhbhai, the first edition of Shrimad Rajchandra Vachanamrut (a compendium of his writings) was published in VS 1961. After two years of research on it, Shrimad's contemporary Shri Mansukhbhai Kiratchand Mehta, his scholarly disciple, published its second edition.
Under Shrimad's guidance and inspiration, Shri Gandabhai Bhaiji opened Shri Subodhak Pustakalaya (Good Teaching Library) in Khambat in Vikram Samvat 1957. It was so named as to avoid any association with any sects. Shrimad personally visited Ahmedabad and Mumbai to buy books for this library, for the study of Truth, free from all dogma.
The establishment of the society and the library were driven by Shrimad's gratitude to and love for the Teachings and his longing for a spiritual revival. That Shrimad, so weak with illness, would work so hard, speaks volumes of his compassion.