Shrimad Rajchandra Diwakar Chitrakatha 037

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

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SHRIMAD RAJCHANDRA In that motionless state, he acquired This extraordinary and rare event made knowledge of his previous births. At a later him more serene and even more inclined stage, at the sight of Junagadh fort, this
to Vairagya. knowledge was expanded till he remembered Inine hundred previous incarnations.
Guruji, what will you teach me next?
My dear boy, I have nothing
left to teach you. In two years you have learnt more than what other students
have in seven years.
In Jain philosophy, this knowledge and perception of previous incarnations is called "Jati Smarana Gnana". It is the result of unsullied purity of soul.
After his schooling, he helped his father run his grocery shop. He was hard working and honest.
He was a born poet, and he wrote verses on the Ramayana and Mahabharata when there was no customer to wait on.
In his own words, "I don't recall having weighed anything either more or less on the scales, even once."
By age eleven, he had started contributing articles and essays to monthly and daily publications.