The Story of My Experiments with Truth · Character
Raychandbhai
A Jain jeweller and poet in Bombay whose quiet spiritual counsel Gandhi weighed against every Christian and theosophist he met.
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A poet and jeweler whose spiritual passion and moral earnestness deeply impressed Gandhi, though he was not accepted as Guru.
Raychandbhai was no ascetic lecturer but a householder who spoke of religion the way others speak of weather, calmly and without performance. Gandhi brought him his hardest questions — about renunciation, about the soul, about whether to leave his family — and often left unsatisfied yet steadied. He matters because he represents the Indian spiritual tradition Gandhi never abandoned, even as he tested it against Tolstoy, the Bible, and his own restless conscience.
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- South African merchant supporters
- Personal family and healers
- Diverse associates and followers
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- Setup
- Escalation
- Breaking point
- Aftermath
- Closing
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- Kasturbai Gandhi
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- Raychandbhai
- Religious Ferment
- Comparative Study of Religions
- Brahmacharya—I
- XXX: Towards Self-Restraint
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