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Shrimad Rajchandra's Message
with great honour. Often hunting parties would be organised to celebrate their visit. Such a hunting expedition had been arranged, whilst Shrimad was in Dharampur. Despite an extended search for game to hunt, not a single animal could be found by the hunting party. The reason was Shrimad's presence in the vicinity; where the soothing stream of compassion and kindness flow ceaselessly, how can violence and cruelty exist? Whilst Shrimad was resident in the area, not a single animal was hunted despite daily expeditions. Several days after Shrimad left, the English dignitaries managed to find some game. In the presence of an spiritually elevated soul like Shrimad, even wild animals can roam fearlessly.
Earlier, in VS 1954, when Shrimad was residing at the bungalow of Ravbahadur Narsiram in Kheda, Pandit Pujabhai Someshwar Bhatt visited him. When the Pandit arrived, Shrimad was reading a scriptural text and he showed Pujabhai one couplet. The couplet can be summarised as, “May my mind and its inclinations become
