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and had profound memory. He left school at the age of 12 and then studied Ardhmagadhi, Prakrit, Sanskrit, Hindi on his own. He joined his father's business at the age of 13. He wanted to retire at the age of 27 but his partners insisted on his continuing at least in advisory capacity for 3 more years. He married at the age of 22 and had children. He reached his Nirvana when he was 34 years of age.
He did the business of jewellery in partnership at Bombay. In his entire business career he never resorted to untruth. He would place all the facts plainly before his customers and therefore he earned the complete confidence of his customers in India and abroad, particularly Arab countries. Even in those says, leave aside the present, it was regarded impossible for businessmen, particularly in jewellery business, to adhere to truth. But he practised it and proved the contrary.
When Barrister M. K. Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi) returned from London after completing his examination, he landed at Bombay and stayed with the partner of Shrimad Rajchandra. There they met for the first time. Gandhi was so much impressed with his life, principles and thinking that he regarded Shrimad Rajchandra as his guru and always consulted him and sought his advice till the death of Shrimad Rajchandra. No wonder Gandhi too followed Shrimad in practice of non-violence and truth in his entire life, personal or political. Shrimad Rajchandra never wrote or said anything which did not come from within, which was not based on conviction or of which he had no personal experience (III). Otherwise how was it possible to write HTTV with 100 chapters in three hours or the famous 3THRITIS with 142
