Book Title: Life of Shrimad Rajchandra
Author(s): Manu Doshi
Publisher: Manu Doshi

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________________ If you are earning enough for sustenance without worrying, do not render this day impure by going for worried royal happiness. A man of good character is happy, man with bad one is unhappy. If you do not admit it, think over that by keeping that matter in view right from now onwards. Let me tell you today that the easiest way for all these is to recognize and avert one's own faults." (2) Thoughts of great men and path of liberation from Vachanamrut of Shrimad Rajchandra "Behave like a child, remain youthful in truth, remain old in knowledge. It's a higher test to examine the heart of the great instead of looking at his behavior. If you want to be great, develop benevolence, stay in saintly contact, remain unattached and controlled in food, movement etc., ponder over good books, and keep objective at a high level. If you do not have any of them, stay reconciled and learn to be cheerful. Do not resort to hypocrisy in adopting true words and do not conceal the obligation of the helpful person. The enlightened persons are above the internal pleasure or displeasure. So long as one does not get to truth, he is far away from the concept of liberation. Religion consists in what lies at the heart of saint or what he states. The philosophical essence can be gained by devotionally resorting to the commands of enlightened. The enlightened say that the man can become a supreme being. The enlightened say that true fast consists in giving up the taste. More opinions, more philosophers, more deception, and more possessions came into being in this age. Saints do not speak, they do not do anything; their saintliness lies in their dispassionate features." (21) "Behave externally in the world and internally stay entirely cool, unattached. That is the belief as well as the teaching." (72) "Learn that, which leads to tranquil death. Once the tranquil death occurs, all the worrying deaths would come to the end." (25) "Though the enlightened do not have desire for devotion, the liberation-seeker cannot grasp the teaching without resorting to it and his learning does not lead to contemplation and pondering over at depth. The saints have therefore said that it is essential for a liberation-seeker to resort to devotion of the enlightened.

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