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Prefave Repeeted) A GLIMPSE OF DEEDI VIMALAJEE
(VIMALA TAI:
KUM. VIMALA THAKAR)
An inborn visionary transcending her mundane existence and soaring high in her real, integrated, sublime Self, Vimalajee a rare, unique, unassuming and joyous SANYASINI from within, had been in the quest of Truth and Mystery of Life from her very remote childhood. She had been intimate contacts and associations with several far-sighted Luminaries, Thinkers, Revolutionaries, seers and Great Modern Seekers, such as Maharashtra Saints like Sant Tukadoji Maharaj, Gujarat scholars like PadmabhooshanPragyachakshu Dr. Pandit Sukhlalji and Ravishankar Maharaj, Santiniketan Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore's disciples like Soofi Saint Acharya Gurdial Mallikji, Banaras Scholars like Pandit Gopinath Kaviraj and Great Indian Musician Sangeet Martand Pandit Omkarnath Thakur, several Gujarat & Rajasthan Jain Saints and world-wide reputed persons and Sarvodaya Leaders like Acharya Vinoba Bhave, Sri Jai Prakash Narain, Dada Dharmadhikari and more so with this century's most original realized Thinker-Philosopher SRI J.KRISHNAMURTI and others. Her revelations through her powerful, unique, realised and joy-disbursing speeches spring from the depths of her SILENCE WITHIN...SILENCE - which is a special realm of hers! Her books are the testimonies of this which inspire and mould innumerable ardent seekers of this age worldwide. Vimalajee has widely travelled Home and Abroad. At home, mostly all of India, spell bounding thousands and lakhs of listeners during Bhoodan Sarvodaya Movement Padyatras of Acharya Vinobaji and Loknayak Jai Prakash Narain. Abroad enlightening seekers all over the world, particularly Europe, U.K., U.S.A., Australia, Sri Lanka, etc. She had even the adventurous travel up to the North Pole. After her total transformation since J.Krishnamurti's acquaintance, she has been scaling more heights of sublime realisation of herself and diving deeper and deeper in the realm of real Silence. Silence within and Silence without. After touring The Himalayas and Himalayan Ranges, She stays in Himachal Pradesh at Dalhousie and in Rajasthan at Mt. Abu for six months each. Being a seeker of totality of life, she doesn't make compartments of Life and in spite of her inner spiritual silent realisations; she remains very much with the world round about. She goes on guiding and moulding the lives of genuine seekers, particularly youth, ladies and children. She untiringly goes on directing the Gujarat Biradari dedicated workers to bring out a total social revolution, spiritual transformation and educational change. All of these efforts are worth studying and adopting which indicate that how even a realised soul can be one with the masses and that too without any claim of Authority, any power of GURU DOM...!She consciously remain away from founding any Ashram, being a guru and enslaving and exploiting the disciples, as several so called modern Gurus are doing!! She remains simple a guiding friend, a sister, a caring and loving DEEDI for all !!!Her spirit and lifestyle of is worth watching and following especially at this active age of her 84 years life span! Vimalajee has very high regards and respect for this Age's unique Seer and Mahatma Gandhiji's Spiritual guide SRIMAD RAJCHANDRAJI. He has thoroughly studied this great modern Jain Seer and imbibed his spirit.She had delivered Jain Paryushana Parva discourses on him in the past, later published as APRAMADA YOGA(The Yoga of Silence). Acquaintances with her by the author of these words are of remotest past, from Vinobaji's Padyatras to Visnagar College's principal ship and Gujarat Vidyapith Ahmadabad's Professorship. Co-incidentally, it was during a pilgrimage tour with her at Idar, Gujarat, while Srimad Rajchandraji's dedicated follower Poojya SAHAJANANDGHANJI- Bhadra muni met there all of a sudden in 1967 on way to Srimadji's place from Hampi. Regarding IDAR!THE DIVINE ABODE OF SRIMADJI and SRI SAHAJANANDGHANJI'S inspiring meeting with VIMALAJEE and this humble self, I have mentioned with interest in this internal voyage with VIMALAJEE. She also has referred to this in one of her letter from Shivkuti, Mount Abu on 9.1.1968: "On 31" December I went to Idar from Ajol....suddenly on the same day there arrived Sri Bhadra Muni who was founded Srimad Rjachandra ashram near Hampi, along with his 25 followers. As if a fair took shape over
