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SHRIMAD RAJCHANDRA
Once on Mahavir Jayanti day in 1896, he was at his shop in Zaveri Bazaar. He saw a procession with Bhagwan Mahavir's idol on a chariot go by. Overwhelmed with emotion and compassion, he expressed his thoughts in his diary, the contents of which were printed posthumously. He signed the letter on that day as "Om Shri Mahavir" !
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A few months after this particular Mahavir Jayanti, Shri Sobhagbhai wrote to him, requesting.
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"Please compose some thing in verse which is beneficial for the soul and is easy to remember at the same time."
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In response to Shri Sobhagbhai's request, he wrote his most important literary work "Shri Atma-Siddhi Shastra". It is the jewel of jewels among his spiritual literature and contains information on soul purification in the form of a dialogue between Guru & Shishya. Gandhiji impressed with it, translated it in English, but it got lost in England.
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