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grains which were dropped on his back while he was engaged in the memory feat, to perform addition, subtraction, multiplication, division and to keep the results in mind and to declare them at the end of the memory feat, also to tell as to how many beads a man opposite to him had turned from a garland till the time he dropped turning them, to hear words of 16 sentences in 16 different languages in a random fashion and later on to speak out all the 16 sentences in the 16 languages, to supply individual letters in a random way in a chart to be completed and at the end to compose a verse, to prepare problem poems and to compose complete verses on being supplied only with one lines or half the lines, to compose sixteen poems in sixteen different poetical forms starting with one line of each of the recollected complete poems at the end.
Srimad used to say that telling truth about one's own self is not either self-praise or self-abuse, telling otherwise than truth is a vice. Later on Srimad easily performed memory feats of attending to one hundred things and activities at a time. Even then he used to say that his powers were merely a drop in the ocean, that the powers of the Self were infinite.
Sri Chaturbhujabhai, the brother-in-law of Srimad said about Srimad that he used to tell in Jetpur, exactly the way and the manner in which a person used to fix a pagadi (a head dress-turban) by looking at the shape of the wearer's head.
In Vikram Samvat 1943 or 1887 A. D. Srimad went to Bombay and there, in Faramji Kavasji Institute and at other places he performed various memory feats which he had mastered and all the newspapers in Bombay gave wide publicity and praise to these
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