Great Warrior Of Ahimsa

Author(s): Pratap J Tolia
Publisher: Vardhaman Bharati International Foundation

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the other. To move in the backdrops of burnings and bloodsheds and cries from one end of Ahmedabad to the other, was really risky and testing. The Great Souls of Srimad Rajchandraji, Mahatma Gandhiji, Acharya Vinobaji, Dr. Pandit Sukhlalji, etc. directly and indirectly gave us strength, courage and ability to carry on this task fearlessly forgetting our physical self. This was as naturally expected of a SHANTI SAINIK, to establish peace. It was a unique experience.
These two live experiences, in addition to my all other previous backgrounds, gave me more insight and clear picture of non-violent Wars and establishment of Peace through Gandhian concept. This play was written in wake of these events and under the pious shelter of my gracious Master Dr. Pandit Sukhlalji and at Gujarat Vidyapith Library. Thus it has obviously some bearing and live touch or self-acquaintance with the theme.
This resembles somewhat the medieval historical battles of Prithviraj Chauhan against the Moslem Invaders in India which were encouraged and helped by his helping warrior friend, advisor and Events' live recorder Poet Chand Bardai in his biographical Hindi war Epic "Prithviraj Raso". Here, only a very small participation of the author of these lines in the aforesaid movements and backgrounds justifies the live touch to the subject theme. This practical side superimposes the theortical side of the previously mentioned background of various struggles and studies, of both-Gandhiji and Srimad Rajchandraji throughout. The recent example of this constant study of the latter's genius works by this humble self is the editing, compiling and publishing of SRI ATMASIDDHI SHASHTRA in seven languages, called as "SAPTABHASHI ATMASIDDHI". This was originally inspired by my other gracious Master, Y.Y. Sri SAHAJANANDGHANJI and recently by Great Present day seer and Thinker Sushri Vimala Thakar. The whole editing being in Printing process, the First Copy of this "SAPTABHASHI (Seven Lingual) ATMASIDDHI" was released at Chicago in October 1996 during SRI ATMASIDDHI CENTENNIAL CELEBRATIONS.
My previously-referred, Literature-Music-Philosophy based nationalist patriotic family had compassionate Jain tradition in its root and origin. It devotedly followed in letter and spirit the principles of Ahimsa (Non-Violence), Anekant (Manysided Point of views) and Aparigraha (Non-accumulation), etc., as preached and prescribed by Tirthankar Bhagawan Mahaveer and Srimad Rajchandraji along with the same modernised and modernity and simplicity laid down by Mahatma Gandhiji in modern times. Thus, whole of my family followed Rajchandra & Gandhi-advocated; Ahimsa. Coincidentally, my birth also took place on Mahaveera's Nirvana Day of Deepavali, in Gandhiji's Birth-month of October and Year of "Dandi"-March 1939 !
My parents cradled me with the philosophies of Srimad Rajchandraji and Mahatma Gandhijideeply religious mother through inheritance of Former's SRI ATMA SIDDHI SHASHTRA from very birth, even from before birth and learned writer-musician father through teaching of Srimad Rajchandra's poems and Gandhian Songs. Thereafter this was followed by an important, life transforming event of father's presenting me Srimad Rajchandra's "MOKSHAMALA" significantly on my 16th Birthday. These childhood impacts of Srimad Rajchandraji coupled with those of Mahatma Gandhiji (who had visited my native place Amreli enroute earlier) as referred from my school days, went on expanding and increasing throughout in course of my studies and previously-referred contacts of the great souls! My illustrious brothers and lone sister had also naturally the impacts of this background, particularly my younger brother was a revolutionary inmate of Sardar Prithvi Sinh at SathraBhavnagar and of Balkobaji Bhave at Nisargopachar Ashram, Uruli Kanchan-Poona and my elder brother was a noble-hearted Philanthropist, Pankaj Mullik-kanan Devi-K.L. Saigal's music Loving fan and Y.Y. Sri Sahajananda Ghanji's disciple heading his aforesaid Srimad Rajchandra Ashram at Hampi, Karnataka as its President.