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of wordly considerations obstructs very powerfully the spiritual aspirant and in such circumstances he is forced to realize the indispensability of spiritual shelter of a living saint or a master.
whim expect to be free from this world or a release from bondage, he cannot reach the desired goal at any time.
It is undoubtedly true that every living soul in his real state is a spiritually high self but till such a form does not really shine and stabilize in you, it is desirable for you to remain as a spiritual aspirant desirous of right knowledge, and only that way your real self will manifest its lustrous existence in your being. Leaving this right path, following any other way you can never realize your real self and you invite the disregard of the great spiritual master Shri Jin Vitaraga. There is no other objection. Approach of death is inevitable
Salutations to the pure self. ***
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Mumbai. Chaitra Vad Twelfth
Sunday, V-S 1951 Shri Jin non-attached, has repeatedly suggested or advised a spiritual aspirant to be free from all contacts of substances and mental aspirations of worldly considerations because even an enlightened saint also should not have any dealing with them or should have no trust in them - thus the spiritual path is one of complete non-attachment to all worldly contacts and considerations.
Salutations to the lotuslike feet of Shri Jin non-attached who has dispassionately advocated such a royal path of liberation for all living beings.
A living being has erred from a long past in deciding the nature of his pure self. In the first sentence of the first teaching of the study of the revealed chapter of Acharanga Sutra which is the first part of Twelve fold sections what Shri Jin has advised, is the essence of all revealed spiritual knowledge it is the seed of liberation. It is the statement of the very nature of right understanding. By concentrating one's mind and intellect on that sentence, a living soul will come to decide that without propitiating a spiritually enlightened master and keeping in constant touch with him, if he by his own sweet will or
Mumbai, Vaishakha Sud Fifteenth
Wednesday V-S-1951 Shri All knowing Jin Vitaraga has said that the essence of all spiritual knowledge is the experience of perfect ease for natural quiescence of the eternal self.
From times immemorial this living being has experienced continuosly instability so to come to stability is a difficult task for him. Shri Jin has said that this living being has in the long past, many a time come to the stage of right movement towards his real self but by the time he has approached a condition of destroying his bondage, he has experienced distress or fear of that fine stage and returned from the right path and turned again to follow worldly life. Therefore it is desirable that such a soul for collecting necessary soul power to destroy his knots of bondage should keep himself in contact of the spiritually enlightened saints and their teachings, right thinking, right