Laghurajswami Biography

Author(s): Manu Doshi
Publisher: Manu Doshi

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While moving far away up to Karmälä in the South Lallujiswämi had maintained correspondence with Ambälälbhäi. The latter had conveyed a wish that Lallujiswämi should gain indestructible right perception, have attributes of Acharya and become a source of resort. Lallujiswämi had replied that he had no intention to become Achärya or to hold any other position; his only aspiration was to get unraveled and disentangled. In reply thereto Ambälälhäi had written two letters, which are worth pondering over as can be seen from the following extracts.
"I am very pleased to learn about your aspiration to get unraveled and disentangled, but it is necessary for us to get in contact. Thereafter you may move the way you think fit. I would be glad and wish that you get disentangled. The liberation-seeking people, however, have nothing to depend upon. As such, I consider it appropriate to invite you here after the end of monsoon. The liberation-seeking males are indulging in indolence and there is no one to awaken them. The females have become particularly helpless on account of break with the sect; they have nothing to depend upon.
"Now let us think of ourselves. We feel compassionate for those who have come in contact; otherwise there are endless living beings in the world. If we go on displaying pity for all of them and spend the life for that purpose, our well being, which lies in purifying knowledge, perception and character, will be left aside. We have not to think of what happens to the world. Our role is to hold compassion for everyone.
"You are not having any wholesome contact that can encourage your tendencies. While lonely moving in the hills do you hold the state, which you had at Idar? ... Earlier while staying in the wholesome contact it was noticed that such a state could spontaneously arise and all the aspects excepting the self-contemplation seemed extraneous, not our own. That used to happen by virtue of the unique contact, was the outcome of such a contact. If we confine ourselves in a cave, we may forcibly bring out such a state, but I think that it would be hard to retain it longer in absence of right contact. I do not mean not to go in retreat, surely go for that, but after extending the badly needed contact. Not only would that enable us to reach a higher state, but also to retain it longer. This I am writing as per my experience and understanding. You are capable to grasp what is virtuous; hence please let me know what you want to do.
"Based on my experience I am mentioning the means for gaining self-awareness. If there happens to be utterance of a poem, stanza or words, and if the mind stays engrossed therein, the body remains calm. In other words, absorption in verbal utterance simultaneously with mental concentration leads to physical steadiness, and that leads to selfcontemplation. For that purpose it is necessary to have less contact, less possessions, restrained food-intake, disinclination etc.... Higher the absorption, the higher is the awareness. That results in reduction of Karma. Awareness is the primary requirement. There is absence thereof, and that makes it harder to reach the higher state. If we try to bring it by force, that does not last; it disappears. ... With vigilant contemplation it is possible to gain and augment that state with little or no effort.
"What does that awareness mean? The awareness denotes vigilant contemplation of any word, sentence, stanza or poem with a view to grasp its full implication. That should be carried out to an extent, where the mind stops feeling tired and becomes more cheerful as the implications become clearer; its enthusiasm continues to grow; it gets delighted and remains absorbed. How enjoyable would it be when mind, speech and body stay united and remain absorbed in contemplation? There is acute shortage of the vigilant awareness that leads to total absorption. The enlightened beings have therefore urged for remaining in wholesome contact. Such contact provides strength to those having lower capability for contemplation.
"In order to develop that capacity it is necessary to study logic, reasoning, grammar and scriptures. They become helpful in developing the contemplating capacity.
"We do not have attained the state for pursuing well being of the world; it is not even worth indulging in such hypocrisy. We have compassion for the whole world. So long, however, six fundamentals are not appropriately understood, it is not possible to establish or refute any viewpoint. The nature of those fundamentals can be