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Life And Works Of śrīmad Rajchandra other poems called Sukhaki Saheli and Dhanya divas āho some important events of spiritual importance in his life which contributed to his spiritual achievements.35
Dr. Sarayu Mehta in her thesis 'śrīmadanî JīvanaSiddhi' has divided his life in four stages.36 In the first stage, of the first 17 years of his life he studied and comprehended and digested various systems of faith in India. This he did by way of research on the Sat or the Reality and to know what is real religion, what is the purpose of religions and different philosophies and which system or philosophy can best help man achieve supreme happiness and how to accomplish that state
of bliss.
Second stage is of five years ( 18th to 22nd years ). As a result of his study and research and the incident at his 7th year, which caused recollections of many of his past lives, he developed an attitude of detachment towards mundane life, and a conviction that soul is different from body, it is eternal and is taking rebirths because of ignorance, attachment and repulsion and he came to firmly believe in the existence of soul and its
eternity.
Third stage consists of about next five.years (23rd
