Shrimad Rajchandra

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Shrimad Rajchandra

Shrimad Rajchandra or by birth name Raichandbhai Ravjibhai Mehta (born November 9, 1867 in Vavaniya , Gujarat , † April 9, 1901 in Rajkot , Gujarat) was a poet and philosopher influenced by Jainism , whose ideas and teachings were taken up and further developed by Mahatma Gandhi .

Life

Shrimad Rajchandra's father was Vaishnava - Hindu and his mother came from a Jain family. At the age of 10 he gave public lectures and at 11 he wrote poetry. Later he devoted himself to techniques for improving memory ( shatavdhan ). At the age of 20 he married and turned to trading in gemstones. In 1891 Shrimad Rajchandra met Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, who was two years his junior in Bombay , but who moved to South Africa in 1893 ; in the period that followed, the two of them exchanged intensively. At the age of 28 he wrote his main work Atma Siddhi , a reinterpretation of the Jain teachings. He died at the age of 33.

Honors

Gandhi mentions Shrimad Rajchandra as his spiritual “guide and helper” and as his “refuge in moments of spiritual crisis” in his autobiography The Story of My Experiments with Truth, which was written between 1925 and 1929 . However, he does not refer to him as his guru .

Missions

Mission schools ( missions or ashrams ) of the sect exist near Idar and Dharampur (both in Gujarat), but also in the Indian capital Delhi and in the coastal metropolis of Mumbai.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Excerpt from Gandhi's autobiography
personal data
SURNAME Shrimad Rajchandra
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian poet and philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH November 9, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Vavaniya , Gujarat
DATE OF DEATH April 9, 1901
Place of death Rajkot