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VOYAGE WITHIN WITH VIMALAJEE
ABRIDGED PRELUDE
PROF. PRATAPKUMAR J. TOLIYA
SPIRITUALITY & SCIENCE SYNTHESIZING SIGNIFICANT BIRTH
ON RAMANAVMI DAY
On the threshold of Modern Century, visualized by farsighted Great Seers like Acharya Vinobaji, as the "SYNTHETIC AGE OF SPIRITUALITY & SCIENCE", a forerunner apostle of it was taking shape in mortal Human Form.
This practising experimenter of unification of Spirituality and Science was born in physical frame of Vimala Deedi on 15th April, 1921, the pious and auspicious Birth Day of Bhagawan Rama - 'Maryada-Purushottama Rama' - The great world-teacher teaching to the world the value and way of sanctity, spirituality, righteousness, respect, duty, humility, honesty, etc., in a House-holder's life, prescribing 'CHARITY BEGINS AT HOME'.
This nobel ideal of Lord Rama was to be practised and taught to others in a different way by achieving great spirituality while remaining amidst society in a House-holder's life and not in that of an Ascetic - the world-duties-escaping & seclusion - staying Ascetic ! Vimalajee's life, though internally of a superb ascetic, was a living example of this ideal of Lord Rama !!
Rama himself had rigorously, sacredly, sacrificingly lived upto this ideal MARYADA (41) - 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 tremendous 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 :
(Commenced writing in train at Nadiad - Sri Atmasiddhi - writing place of SRIMAD RAJCHANDRAJI: on 22-3-12 (6.31 a.m.) and completed on 31-3-2012 (Morning).
