Shrimadji's Last Spiritual Stature...

 In Vikram Samvat 1957, Shrimad Rajchandraji with His Mother & Wife stayed at Agakhan's Bungalow in Ahmedabad. 


One day Shri Devkaranji Muni asked the reason for reduction of His body to which He replied: "I am on a war with my body as it took unwholesome food during my stay in Dharampur.

One day prior to going to Wadhwan Camp He called Shri Lalluji & Shri Devkaranji to His residence in Agakhan's Bungalow at Ahmedabad & advised them to see no difference in Him & in Shri Mahavirswami.

On the day prior to His death at Rajkot, Shrimadji said to Shri Mansukhbhai, Shri Revashankarbhai, Shri Narbherambhai & others around Him: "Be sure this soul is eternal, it is reaching increasingly higher stages, it has a very bright future. You remain quiet & behave with calmness & peace. I may not in future tell you with my tongue nor there is now the time for it. I only advise you to continue your efforts towards Self-realization.

At 8:45 a. m. on Chaitra Vad 5th Vikram Samvat 1957 He said to Shri Mansukhbhai: "Mansukh, do not be afflicted, take care of mother, I retire to my soul's true nature." From 8:45 a.m. to 2:00 p. m. He lay on his death bed quiet as a machine, in deep meditation, and He left His body for ever.

Shri Lalluji Maharaj  heard in Kavitha the sad news of his Guru's expiry and he retired to the fields in solitude & passed His day in dedication to the departed Guru. 

According to English calendar Shrimadji left HIS body for good on 9th April 1901 at Rajkot after a little over one year's sickness.

In brief, Shrimadji lived & died as a Self-Realized Soul, though in body, completely independent of it.

He had in His mind an aspiration to re-establish the pure religion of Shri Mahavirswami which had been distorted in the institutional sectarianism which cut at the very root of Jainism. To some extent this purpose has been fulfilled by His great disciples in recent years.

Shrimad Rajchandraji was a universal man practicing the universal religion of Atma, the only reality & He defined a person as Jain if he followed an enlightened Guru's advice & practiced the religion of Atma.

Infinite salutations to the Great Shrimadji Rajchandraji.

                                                (From Jain Data Base)