Avadhāna Avadhāna is a difficult test of attention and recollection in which a person attends multiple objects and activities at a time. In 1884, Rajchandra came from Vavania to Morbi where he saw Shastri Shankarlal M. Bhatt performing eight
Avadhāna at a time. Gattulalji Maharaj was performing the same in
Bombay. He saw the performance and quickly picked it up. Just two days after the performance, he performed it in front of his friends and later in public. Initially he performed 12
Avadhāna in public in
Morbi but later he performed 16
Avadhāna in audience of two thousand in
Wadhwan Camp, which was praised in newspapers. He performed 52
Avadhāna in
Botad in a private meeting with his friend Harilal Shivalal Sheth which included playing
Chopat game with three players; playing cards with three players; playing chess; keeping count of the sound of a small gong; mentally computing arithmetic sums involving addition, subtraction, multiplication and division (4); keeping count of the movement of beads along a thread; solving eight new problems; composing verses on eight diverse topics selected at the time and in the specific
metre chosen by various members of the audience (16); rearranging 400 words of various languages spoken in random order including Greek, English, Sanskrit, Hindi, Arabic, Latin, Urdu, Gujarati, Marathi, Bengali, Maru, Jadeji, in the right order of subject, predicate (16); teaching a student; contemplating various figures of speech (2); all at one time.
Later years . In 1887 (Maha Sud 12, VS 1944), Rajchandra married Jhabakben, daughter of Popatlal, the elder brother of Revashankar Jagjivandas Mehta, a
Zaveri merchant family. He then engaged in the pearl and diamond business. He continued his householder life for more six years and was successful in his business. ,
China. He is known as a spiritual guide of
Mahatma Gandhi. They were introduced in
Mumbai in 1891 and had various conversations through letters while Gandhi was in South Africa. Gandhi noted his impression of Shrimad Rajchandra in his autobiography,
The Story of My Experiments with Truth, calling him his "guide and helper" and his "refuge in moments of spiritual crisis". He advised Gandhi to be patient and to study
Hinduism deeply. His teaching directly influenced Gandhi's non-violence philosophy. hill where Shrimad Rajchandra gave discourses. He stayed in Gujarat with his disciples and avoided moving to Bombay. He retired from householder life and business when he was thirty. He spent three months in
Idar where he instructed seven monks in religious discourses sitting on a stone,
pudhvi śila. A memorial temple and a prayer hall was later built there. A small photograph taken after his death is displayed in a library in
Khambhat established by him. The room where he died is now a prayer hall dedicated to his memory. ==Works==