Rajgeeta English Translation and Comentry on Atmasiddhi Shastra

Author(s): Shrimad Rajchandra, Manu Doshi
Publisher: Shrimad Rajchandra Mission

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Lallubhäi Zaveri died after a prolonged illness. Thereupon Laghuräjswämi felt that if he also met the same fate, his life would end without gaining right perception. In that case he would have to continue the infinite wandering in the cycle of birth and death. He therefore wrote to Shrimad to send him something that could help in gaining right perception.
Thereupon Shrimad sent to him the Letter of Six Fundamentals relating to the existence of soul, its everlastingness, etc. Laghuräjswämi was pleased to receive it and went through it repeatedly. That Letter was sent to Saubhägyabhäi in 1895. He also liked it very much and used to ponder over it again and again. He wanted to commit it to memory. But the letter being in prose, he found it hard to memorize. Thereupon he requested Shrimad to bring out something similar in poetical version.
Shrimad was inherently compassionate. Moreover, he had regard for Saubhägyabhäi, who had been instrumental in bringing out, in the form of letters, what lay at his heart. During the later part of 1896 Shrimad was in Nadiad, a little south of Ahmedabad. On October 22 after returning from an evening walk he called Ambälälbhäi and asked him to hold a lamp. While Ambälälbhäi held it as directed, Shrimad started writing, and within an hour and a half, he wrote down 142 stanzas of Atmasiddhi Shästra. Mere copying of those stanzas would take longer time! The fact, that Shrimad brought out that great work in that short time, would give some idea of the spiritual wealth abiding at his heart.
Saubhägyabhäi was elated to get it. He was highly impressed by its contents and committed it to memory.
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