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SHRIMAD RAJCHANDRA They discussed the above question animatedly, He enthusiastically showed the but were unable to come up with a satisfactory monk the letters he was reading. answer. Then Ambalalbhai rer
When the monk read those letters. Shrimad Rajchandra.
I have never read anything I know of a very learned person
with such great spiritual depth. who can answer questions which are
I am sure he can answer so many far more difficult than this. His name is
questions troubling my soul. I am Shrimad Rajchandra.
filled with a great longing to
meet him.
In 1890 Shrimad Rajchandra visited Ambalalbhai in Khambhat. Ambalalbhai took him to the Upashreya. Shri Lalluji Maharaj, more widely, known as Shri Laghuraj Swami sought his senior monk's permission to obtain knowledge from Shrimad Rajchandra. Permission granted, he requested Shrimad Rajchandra to enter the first floor of the Upashreya where he prostrated himself thrice before Shrimad Rajchandra. Though Shrimad Rajchandra askedy him to desist
Such was the humility of a true aspirant, who though an older monk, recognised his Guru in a much younger Gruhasthi.
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