Selected 100 Letters by Shrimad Rajchandraji

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

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SELECTED 100 LETTERS
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even this is not possible, then I do not need anything other than my mergence in pure devotion of Jin Bhagavan Lord Mahavira with the utmost purity of my heart and if even this is not available to me them I have no desire to ask for anything else. Without proper understanding of the scriptures they bring only harmwithout contact of spiritual saints, meditation turns out to be a mental wandering.
Without the help of a spiritual saint, the final truth cannot be grasped at all. By popular opinion of these saints you can never go ahead of these people. It is next to impossible to achieve the right type of non-attachment without abandoning worldly consideration.
Is it really wrong? What?
Whatever wandering is done, can never be undone. Suppose we try to retrace the steps of this wandering? Yes that can be done. This is also wonderful.
This much for the present. Next time we shall meet at a proper moment. Please note this and oblige.
Respects from Raichandra.
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Vavania, Second Bhadrapad Sud Fourteenth, Sunday
V.S. 1946 Brothers desirous of religious life.
Your heart pressed by elements of strong aspiration for liberation, gives me highest satisfaction. Your strong desire to end this aimless and endless wandering, is highly benefactory. Some day some appropriate moment will arrive where you will achieve liberation that you strongly ask for or desire.
Please keep me informed of your day to day mental progress. Try to encourage your strong desire for liberation. You might have heard what I write below namely the stages of religious development leading to self enlightenment. However you constantly remember the same religious story.
There are five characteristics of a right state of mind of a spiritual aspirant and they are as under :1. Shama - retiring of anger. 2. Samvega- or no desire except the one to enjoy total
freedom from the world. 3. Nirveda - A decision to stop the worldly wandering
under ignorance. Aastha - Complete faith in the sayings of the self realized
non-desiring spiritual saints. 5. Anukampa - By all these four above in combination and
co-operation, the living soul treats all other living being as he treats self. Understands the nature of the real self