Book Title: Vimala Thakar Life Sketch
Author(s): Pratap J Tolia
Publisher: Jina Bharati

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________________ holder's life and not in that of an Ascetic - the worldduties-escaping & seclusion-staying Ascetic ! Vimalajee's life, though internally of a superb ascetic, was a living example of this ideal of House-holder Lord Rama !! Rama himself had rigorously, sacredly, sacrificingly lived upto this ideal MARYADA (refci) - spiritual sanctity, respecting his revered father and his words like God in doing so, what not he had sacrificed ? can one imagine the unparalled tremendous troubles, tests and tribulations that he had willingly accepted and 'invited' in doing so ? Can one even think of the total Life - transformation taking place from the state of the WOULD BE PRINCE - KING going to be atoned and installed on the throne of Ayodhya, to a forest-going grandly sacrificing FORESTER - door to door & tree to tree begging BHIKSHU FORESTER and that too full of what sort of tremondous Trials and Thrilling Tests of Time ....... ? Can one have even a glimpse of the pathetic sorrows a delicate PRINCE might have undergone during this Forester's Ascetic Life ? His is the Supreme Example quoted respectfully by a Modern Admirer of Rama, who has remained as one of the Makers, Moulders & Role - Models of Vimalajee, SRIMAD RAJCHANDRAJI - again he himself too a worthy "House - Holder Ascetic" and MAHATMA GANDHIJI'S Spiritual Guide ! He quotes while discussing the pains & potholes of human life to one of his worthiest but 'time-tested' unhappy disciples : "हम आप कोई दुःखी नहीं, जो दुःख है वह राम के चौदह वर्ष के वनवास का एक दिवस भी नहीं है!"

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