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6. Srimad's Spiritual Evolution and Achievement
Śrīmad was born not only to be a spiritual person but also to be a spiritual revivalist leader. In common parlance, his life can be said to be an odyssey of 33 or 34 years for a Sādhaka, who had to work very hard and zealously and against many odds and difficulties. His temporal life was very short, of only 33-34 years. But one's temporal life is only a halt in the limitless journey of the soul in spiritual terms. The supernatural qualities, memory, intelligence etc., which śrīmad displayed in his childhood and also in young age and his intellectual and spiritual achievements in a short span of 33 years of life are proof of the fact that this life of his was nothing but a continuation of his previous lives and also of the fact that he had worked hard and acquired those qualities in earlier lives and inherited them in this life.
His spiritual evolution and achievements can be assessed and appraised from some important events in his life as well as from his own writings and statements about himself in some letters to his associates and admirers and also in some of his poems.
śrīmad was also good enough to narrate in one of his writings called Samuccaya-vaya- carcă and in two
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