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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78. The Immortal Flame
It was the morning of the fifth day of the latter half of the month of Chaitra, VS 1957. Shrimad was given some milk at 7:45 a.m. He was, at that time, fully conscious and aware of his body, mind and speech. At 8:45 a.m., he said to his younger brother Mansukhbhai,
"Mansukh, don't grieve. Take care of mother. I will now immerse myself in my 'inner-self'."
He lay on the couch in the same 'Kayotsarga' position in which he had been photographed in Wadhvan. His self-absorbed state lasted for about five hours until 2 p.m., before he breathed his last. There were no external symptoms that ordinarily mark the departure of a soul from the body. It was in a meditative and peaceful state that the relationship between that 'all-pure soul and the body came to an end.
As his body was sinking, his face grew increasingly radiant. His face was serene, attractive and glowing. His condition at that time amazed all those present and also aroused in them a feeling of reverence.
He had immortalised his final message: 'There is no craving for life, nor is there fear of death.' How could he have been afraid of death?
Enlightened saints like Shrimad, who have experienced their never-aging, immortal nectar-like Soul, are beyond the physical body, beyond death, and beyond time.
At 2.00 p.m., on the fifth day of Chaitra in Vikram Samvat 1957, in the city of Rajkot, the divine spirit of Shrimad Rajchandra left the body known by that name. The immortal inner flame rose above this mortal world.
In just 33 years, what Shrimad contributed to the cause of religious reawakening, would normally not be possible even in countless lives. He made up for an infinite number of earlier births in just one life time. Not only did he attain the greatest bliss for his own 'self', he also blessed the world by casting light on the True path to SelfRealisation.
Countless footprints are made on the sands of time, but only the footprints of those rare personalities who strive for universal welfare and the path they lay out remain with humanity as bright rays of hope for the future. Just as the places where the Tirthankars attained nirvana have become Tirthas, places of pilgrimage, so has Rajkot.
The abode of eternal bliss is the refuge of a true person May focus on him remain uninterrupted for all times Eternal and supreme peace and one that is nectar like Paying obeisance and giving my self to the state to be one with it.