Shrimad Rajchandraji
Shrimad Rajchandraji

Shrimad Rajchandraji is highly respected for His remarkable exposition of Bhagwan Mahavira’s teachings, great spiritual state, extraordinary personality and literary genius. Shrimadji was born on the auspicious day of Kartik Purnima in V.S. 1924 (9th November, 1867) at Vavania (Gujarat, India). At the age of 23, He attained self‑realisation. He spent months of seclusion in jungles and mountains, absorbed in the ecstasy of the Self. His compassion for the world overflowed in the form of Shri Atmasiddhi Shastra, a masterpiece in philosophical literature. On Chaitra Vad Pancham V.S. 1957 (9th April, 1901) at the age of 33 years, this Enlightened Soul left His mortal body, in a state of complete awareness at Rajkot. A surging ocean of divine compassion, His life was an epitome of an intense and incessant pursuit of religion.

About Him, Mahatma Gandhi says,

“This man has won my heart in spiritual matters and no one else has ever made on me the same impression. I have said elsewhere that besides Kavi (Shrimadji), Ruskin and Tolstoy have contributed in forming my intrinsic character; but Kavi has had a more profound effect because I had come in personal and intimate contact with Him.”
-Modern Review, June 1930