Voyage Within With Vimalajee

Author(s): Pratap J Tolia
Publisher: Vardhaman Bharati International Foundation

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PREFACE:
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UNIVERSAL VISIONARY DEEDI VIMALAJEE (VIMALA TAI THAKAR)
PROF. PRATAPKUMAR J. TOLIYA
An inborn visionary who transcended her mundane existence and soared 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 in intimate contacts and close associations with several far-sighted Luminaries, Thinkers, Revolutionaries, Seers and Great Modern Seekers such as Maharashtra Saints like Sant Tukadoji Maharaj, Gujarat scholars like Padmabhooshan Pragyachakshu 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 and 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, realized and joy-disbursing speeches sprung from the depths of her SILENCE WITHIN...SILENCE-which is a special realm of hers! Her books are the testimony 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 Padayatras of Acharya Vinobaji and Loknayak Jai Prakash Narain. Abroad enlightening seekers all over the world, particularly Europe, U.K, U.S.A, Australia, and 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 realization of her Self 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 realizations, she remains very much with the world round about. She goes on guiding and molding the lives of genuine seekers, particularly youths, 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 realized Soul can be one with the masses and that too without any Claim of Authority, any power of GURUDOM...! She consciously remains away from founding any Ashram, being a Guru and enslaving and exploiting the disciples, as several so called modern Gurus are doing!! She remains simply a guiding friend, a sister, a caring and loving DEEDI for all!!! Her spirit and lifestyle of work is worth-watching and following-especially at this active age of 86 years' life span.
Vimalajee has very high regards and respects for this Age's Unique Seer and Mahatma Gandhiji's Spiritual guide SRIMAD RAJCHANDRAJI. She 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 padayatras to Visnagar College's Principal ship and Gujarat Vidyapith Ahmedabad's Professorship. Co-incidentally,