Selected 100 Letters by Shrimad Rajchandraji

Author(s): Shrimad Rajchandra,
Publisher: Shrimad Rajchandra Prabhavak Trust Hubli

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SELECTED 100 LETTERS
SELECTED 100 LETTERS
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Vavania Port Maha Sudi Fourteenth
Wednesday, V.S 1945 Salutations to spiritual Saints
These seven knots have overpowered this illuminated self and so the living being has moved towards outward acquisitions and solution of external problems and with such series of experiences it has not been able to turn its gaze inwards towards its illuminated self. The right thing is well-deservedness. But I have the reason to be happy that I became instrumental in helping you to destroy or quell down the said obstructions by the right advice of the great spiritual saints administering the Jain religion. I received their blessings and I directed them for helping you to destroy your knots and clear the path of your liberation. This way I feel joyous that I shall be blessed more and more by these great spiritual masters. Whatever the enlightened say is always the truth.
Wise,
You must have received my letter. I reflected on the contents of your letter. I feel the change in your mental attitude is benefial to your self development.
Right understanding of the self is not possible till seven forms of obstructive nature in a human being such as interminable anger, interminable sense of honour or self praise, interminable infatuation (Maya) and interminable greed - these four plus false sense of self, Mishra Mohini - faulty appreciation of truth and untruth, and faulty appreciation of the right and the true; in all, these seven obstructions are not gradually diminished or silenced or destroyed or negated completely. The rise of right understanding of the real self is graded with the gradual elimination of these above described seven obstructive mental attitudes or trends. To destroy these seven knots is almost a difficult task. One whose above stated seven knots are destroyed can easily obtain his self. All philosopher saints have advised the destruction of these seven knots. Any living soul who will attend to destroying these seven knots, hindering self illumination with assidous effort, will assuredly and undoubtedly attain his illuminated self.
In this cyclic rotation of the world, at no time in the past, did one realize the value of devotion to these spiritual Lords, nor did one have an opportunity to rightly recognize, respect and follow the great spiritual saints, nor did one study their scriptural teachings. If these were obtained by the living soul, then his condition would be quite different from what is found to-day. But now, one should believe that the morning starts from the time one is awake, and so without feeling dejected towards what one could not do for his self advantage in his endless past, he should from the moment of his right understanding, start to follow the teachings of the great spiritual masters and attain thereby his self illumination. This is the only way to succeed in liberation, by turning the failures of innumerable past lives into the opportunities for successful self realization in the present life, beginning from the dawn of right understanding.