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Shrimad Rajchandra & Mahatma Gandhi
and divisions, all mentally. He could compose poems instantly on any subject. He could recite about four hundred words from sixteen languages, including Greek, Arabic, Latin, Sanskrit, Urdu, Marathi, etc which were mixed up. He would attend to different tasks such as playing the traditional Indian board game of Chaupat, cards, and chess all at the same time.
To test Shrimad further, Gandhi prepared a list of words almost exhausting his vocabulary in languages that Shrimad had never heard of. Gandhi had to write these down so that he could remember the order himself. He then read them out to Shrimad who recited them faultlessly. Gandhi, full of pride at being an English qualified barrister, was awestruck at this spectacle of incredible mental faculties and memory power, he noted: “All pride in my knowledge of languages simply melted away. This was a humbling experience for me, and it vaporised the ego I had built up about my western education”.
Shrimad Rajchandra Performing the Shatavdhan Experiments
