Pinnacle Of Spirituality

Author(s): Kumarpal Desai
Publisher: Raj Saubhag Satsang Mandal

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Foreword
We begin the life story of a divine and superhuman being with reverence to his sacred memory. We can at best only get to know the events and the incidents in the lives of great spiritual beings. To fully appreciate the underlying significance behind such incidents we have to be on a higher spiritual plane.
When we stand at the confluence of the poetic creations and spiritual existence of Shrimad Rajchandra, the only thing we can lay our hands on is the combination of words flowing from his poems and his spirituality but we cannot feel the compassion in his heart or follow the deep thoughts that lay behind them. This is because of our own limitations in achieving such feelings or contemplating such profound thoughts.
We catch a glimpse of the depth of his renunciation, his aversion to worldly pleasures, the uniqueness of his all-comprehensive knowledge and teachings, and the purity of his character. But are we able to comprehend the depth and breadth of his spirituality, the glory and the grandeur of his super-human qualities? Do we have the ability to understand it fully ? The ordinary men and women that we are, busy with day to day affairs cannot comprehend the unwavering peace, selfless compassion and the uniqueness of the sacred existence that lie behind their super-human lives.
How can a common man who is engrossed in mental and physical pains and worldly troubles experience the greatness and uniqueness of a being endowed with such spiritual qualities? The immensity of such a unique experience cannot be expressed here in a few words.
Hence the story of this formidable universal superhuman is being related by focusing on only a few rays that emanate from the sun of his spiritual existence and nothing beyond that. It is like trying to show the greatness of the Himalayas by showing a small foothill. Our aim is to show to those who are desirous for emancipation and who thirst for salvation, the life of Shrimad Rajchandra so that it may inspire them spiritually and help their progress towards liberation.
Shrimad in his short life has left such a large legacy for mankind that even those with much longer lives may not be able to absorb all his teachings in one lifetime.
We can get an idea of his immense mental prowess, through his extraordinary memory retention, recollection of the knowledge of his past lives, and his Shatavdhan