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the threshold of the highest spiritual stage.
This chapter of Dr. Sarayuben's work is the climax in all respects. .. . : .
The main purpose of our detailed survey of Dr. Sarayuben's encyclopaedic work in the foregone pages is to provide a background for our present work as well as to point out the desideratum. Of course, we acknowledge the valuable help it rendered to us as a main secondary source for our getting acquainted with Śrīmad's life and works. But as pointed out earlier, Śrimad's works are in Gujarati language and Dr. Sarayuben has studied them mainly from a literary point of view. The emphasis is laid on critically analysing the contents of Śrīmad's works from a literary point of view, his philosophy not coming in direct purview. This loss has been made good by Dr. S. M. Patel whose research work entitled Philosophy of Srimad submitted to the M. S. University of Baroda for Ph.D. in 1965 is being reviewed by us in the following pages. Like Dr. Sarayuben's work this work too has proved a landmark in studies on Śrimad. Without taking serious cognizance of these two valuable contributions, one cannot proceed further.
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