Shrimad Rajchandra Diwakar Chitrakatha 037

Author(s): Amarmuni
Publisher: Mahavir Seva Trust Mumbai

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SHRIMAD RAJCHANDRA
India was crushed politically, economically, and morally by superior British might in the great uprising of 1857. The next decade, however, saw India drawing on her innate spiritual resources. Luminaries such as Shri Ramkrishna Paramhansa, Swami Vivekanand, Mahatma Gandhi, as well as a great spiritual personality Shrimad Rajchandra were all born in the 1860's.
In Vavania, a small village in Saurashtra, 20 miles from Morbi, there lived a pious couple. Ravjibhai, a Vaishnava, and Devabai, a Jain. On the 11th of November 1867, a son was born to them called Raichand (Rajchandra). He had four sisters and a younger brother Mansukh.