Voyage Within With Vimalajee

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

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The scientific handling of theme, the mathematical precision in the choice of words and the lucidity of style are simply enchanting.
Liberation is not a goal to be attained. It is a fact which has to be perceived and understood. Getting grounded in the unconditionally free nature of consciousness, one has to live with its awareness.
Dry theological dogmas or sentimental repetition of certain rituals do not bring about transformation says Rajchandra. Raga and Dwesha - infatuation and hatred - are the root causes of bondage. Ignorance about the ultimate nature of reality, about the essence of one's being causes the imbalance of Raga-Dwesha. That basic ignorance is the source of all suffering. Eradication of ignorance is the emergence of understanding. The light of understanding dispels darkness. According to Rajchandra, close proximity to a living liberated person and learning from such a person's way of living is indispensable! Verbal knowledge gathered from books or traditions hardly serve that purpose.
I strongly recommend a serious study of this jewel of a book to every genuine sadhaka. The words of Sri Rajchandra are charged with the vibrations of Supreme Intelligence. He is alive in every verse of Atma Siddhi."
'Shivkul' Dalhousie, Himachal Pradesh 176 304
'Shivkuti' Mount Abu, Rajasthan 307 501
VIMALA THAKAR
28-8-1996
SRIMAD RAJCHANDRA JI & SRI J. KRISHNAMURTI
Jeedi's such a respect for Srimad Rajchandraji, in which she finds him alive "in every verse of Atma Siddhi" is simply unique. Deedi has seen Rajchandraji not physically, but internally with her own deep meditative perception and understanding. Sri Kalyanbhai's father and Srimadji's ardent & studious devotee Sri Trikamlal Mahasukhram was nstrumental in strengthening Deedi's understanding about Srimadji in course of their discussions after reading talks of Sri J.Krishnamurti. Through Sri Trikambhai's rendering of Srimadji's verses and "Atmasiddhi", inquisitive spirit of Deedi went deep into Srimadji's spiritual depths and understandings. Deedi was overwhelmingly impressed with. Later she delivered Week long Talks in 1973 at Mt. Abu which were dedicated to Srimadji and published under the titles of 'APRAMAD YOGA' and 'YOGA OF SILENCE' in GUJARATI and English respectively. In course of this, she clarifies at one place:
"He (Srimadji) had studied not for acquiring knowledge, but for digesting what he understood....reading for understanding and reading for acquisition are two different things... when he had seen through the fundamentals of life, he started writing down his own understanding.....(page 13)...." So Rajchandra became a disciple of his own understanding into action is discipline, is devotion, is the concert of living....xxxxx.... He wanted to find what happens when the human consciousness contained in him becomes completely silent, relaxed into silence, lungs into silence..."(page 26).
Thus Srimadji's yoga of Silence or APRAMAD YOGA finds appropriate interpretationat the hands of Deedi-the present day experimenter of silence within.
This experimenter of Silence in the depths of her being has seen the same silence like Srimad Rajchandraji and like Sri J.Krishnamurti, has herself realized that unique silence and recommends all to sit and be in that silence of one's own. She simplifies this silence in her 1976 Talks at Hilversum, Holland recorded in her book titled "THE MYSTERY OF SILENCE" :
"This sitting is silence, being with nature, these are only tenders ways of self-education. Silence is not something negative, it's not absence of verbalisation, it is the substance of life.......So, one has to be alone to be with silence, solitude, and must give at least half of the time which you give to the earning of your livelihood to this self education ." (page 42)
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