Shrimad Rajchandra And Mahatma Gandhi

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

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Shrimad Rajchandra's Message
Rajchandra also emphasised these three fundamentals to awaken one and all, from the common individual to the seeker of the highest order. He urged them to come out of spiritual lethargy and make a concerted effort to progress on the spiritual path.
Human form is the rarest of all life forms, and it is attained only after many eons of transmigration by the soul through this universe amidst a myriad of life forms. This soul has taken birth as fine bodies in fire, water, earth and air an infinate number of times. It has spent infinite time as both hellish and heavenly beings as well as flora and fauna in the universe. Starting with single-sense bodies, it progressively moves into life forms with two senses, three senses, four senses and then five senses before finally attaining the very rare human form. Human form is the only form that allows for spiritual development and ascent to moksha. Therefore, the attainment of the human birth has been deemed the ultimate life form for spiritual development. Shrimad repeatedly stressed the importance and the rarity of human birth and urged all to strive with maximum effort to ascend the spiritual ladder and make the human birth successful.
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There is a fundamental difference between the ideology and approach of the Indic and Western philosophies toward the human body. The Indic philosophy views the body as a temple with the soul as God residing in it. The traditional architecture of an Indian temple is a mystical depiction of a human body. Just as the human body has a head, a neck etc., a temple also has similar sections. Indian philosophy regards the body as an abode of the soul, in which the soul has the potential to achieve the highest spiritual liberation. The human form unlocks the opportunity for harnessing the latent energies within. The Western approach on the other hand, is that a human body is merely a means to satisfy