Life of Shrimad Rajchandra

Author(s): Manu Doshi
Publisher: Manu Doshi

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the right medications. To the extent the bogus practitioners prescribe the right medication, the patients get the benefit."
It is necessary to have a true Guru, who can correctly explain the true nature of schools of thought. A wrong guru would mislead the people. In that connection Shrimad said, "The true Guru would lead one on the path of liberation, while the wrong guru would rob him of the wealth of knowledge, perception and conduct, and would lead him towards a lower destination. For instance, a bridegroom party was traveling with a brave convoy. They came across a group of eunuchs to rob them. But as the convoy challenged them boldly, those eunuchs ran away. Similarly, Karmas escape in the presence of a true Guru."
The second day on the grazing ground
On the way to grazing ground Shrimad said that religion is the inconceivable desire-yielding jewel. Thereupon I asked, "What is meant by inconceivable desire-yielding?" Shrimad replied that a desire-yielding jewel would yield the fruit after conceiving of a desire; that involves the effort of conceiving. Religion, however, gives fruit even without that much effort and is therefore inconceivable."
While talking that we came to a Räyan (yellow berry) tree. We sat under it along with Shrimad and Muljibhäi a liberation-seeker. Shrimad said, "The Lord has frequently moved around Räyan tree. It lives very long and this Räyan is very old. There was a road nearby and a gardener was passing by it with flowers. With an innate sense of devotion he laid some of them in front of Shrimad, and thereupon Muljibhai gave him a coin.
Taking one of the flowers in hand Shrimad said, “Those, who have entirely given up taking green vegetables, cannot lay flowers on the Lord's idol; those, who have not given up, can devotionally lay flowers by reducing the in-take of green vegetables in their diets. The monks are forbidden to lay flowers and the ancient seers have stated that the monks cannot even instruct to lay them."
After giving this much clarification about laying flowers, he said about the idol, “A learned monk belonging to the non-idolater sect was once moving through a forest area. On the way, he came across a Jain temple and entered it for taking rest. As he saw the Lord's idol, he gained peace and his mind was delighted. He could thus make out that the tranquil idol of Lord is fruitful."
Thereupon Mohanlälji asked, "How come, it is stated in a scripture that the unclad monks would gain liberation after adopting clothes?"
Shrimad replied with a smile, "Clad monks felt jealous of the unclad ones and said that the latter would gain liberation after adopting their garb." Thereafter everyone left the grazing ground and went to their place.
The third day on the grazing ground
On the third day we went to the same ground and sat under the same Räyan tree along with Shrimad. Later on, some liberation seeking men and women arrived there for seeing and contacting him. Shrimad then asked Dhoribhäi to sing the adoration song of Lord Mallinäth and told him to repeat it several times. Then he asked him to explain its meaning and thereafter he himself gave the extraordinary interpretation thereof. Then we came back delightfully chanting the following stanza from the song of Lord Neminäth.
Rägi Shun Rägi Sahu Re, Vairagi Sho Räg? Manaräwälä Räg Vinä Kem Däkhavo Re, Muktisundari-Mäg? Manaräwälä