Bhavana Bodh

Author(s): Shrimad Rajchandra
Publisher: Shrimad Rajchandra Ashram

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Life of Shrimad Rajchandra
positions of bondage and freedom is the only guide to Selfliberation and such a system is that of the great Mahavir - the Jain system. If in my humble opinion, there is any living man available in whom the heart of the great Tirthankar is residing, he is no other than the author of these lines. The result of the soul saving knowledge is the experience of complete renunciation from all worldly considerations and this is what I experience in my own being. Hence, I consider myself to be the perfect disciple of the great Tirthankar. One who gains the souls's knowledge in accord with the enlightened Guru's opinion, has obtained correct insight and experience, and none else. When the goal and the path are clearly seen there is no difficulty for a sincere disciple to follow the path and reach the goal".
In his talks with Muni Mohanlalji, Shrimad said "I donot forget the self even for a second".
Once Shrimad Rajchandra said to Shri Devkaranji Muni, an inmate of Shri Lalluji Maharaj that he lived in his body as a separate pulp would be felt in a dried coconut shell.
At Kheda one day Shrimad in a soliloquy says :
"In Samvat 1948, you the great soul of infinite peace and qualmness visited Ralaja, in these days you visited Vaso and there you were a great Yogin absorbed in deep meditation and now you are the same Yogindra enjoying bliss and peace here at Kheda."
This is Shrimad's description of himself as a disembodied
soul.
In a letter Shrimad writes :
"I think in my mind that I have all qualifications to re-establish and propagate the Vedic Religion but in order to settle and propagate the Jain Religion, I do require some more qualifications than I actually possess, though of all the available persons I am better fitted for the purpose".
Collection from Shrimad Rajchandra Life translated in English Language by Prof. Dinubhai M. Patel.