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
Now O lord! I cannot bear this sight or plight. I cannot bear even hearing of this decline of religious life. It is proper for you not to allow us to suffer this decline of religious living. However if you wish that we should go through these troubles then inspire us so that we will accept this adversity as happiness. If you think it proper, bless me seeking your shelter in such a way that the persons or other living beings who have contacted me, may in no way be distressed by me nor may they hate me or pain-me on my score. What I am extremely unhappy at, is that living beings are repeatedly engaged in getting away from you and your soul-saving instructions or laws and when they come in my contact, I advise them to return from their wrongdoings and turn to you for shelter, but they do not hear my advice. If what I say now to you is felt properly by you, then O Lord you are mighty enough to avoid this and bless me so that many living beings may be brought nearer to you and serve you as I do. O Lord I beseech you to solve this problem and put me at ease.
I have believed the following sentences with consent of innumerable spiritual saints as the most excellent causes of self realization or liberation and therefore extremely beneficial to all spiritual aspirants for liberation :1. A spiritual aspirant must abandon all desires or worldly
happiness at one time or other. Therefore from the moment this saying is heard, it is proper for him to understand that he should start studying the method of abandoning all such worldly desires. By any means he should search out his spiritual guide, and once he gets him, he should surrender himself to him by all his might - by body, mind and speech and by as whole living being. He should always follow his advice in letter and spirit, quite undoubtedly. Only this way he will surely drive out all infatuating strong desires from his being. This he must understand well. In the soul's wanderings through many cycles of births and deaths, it or he has for innumerable times heard the religious scriptures, prosecuted studies of various scriptures, received initiation many a time from the Jina saints and he has also worked many a time as the highest priest or acharya of the Jain religious orders. But inspite of all these workings, he has not reached the truth, nor heard it, nor has believed in it with full faith as the goal of his religious search. And from the bottom of his spiritual self, his self will express approval and satisfaction only when he finally accepts and meets with the truth with firm faith and determination. Thus he will be liberated and the self in him will accept him as one with the real self.
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Mumbai, Kartik Sud Sixth, Tuesday, V-S. 1947
Unending spiritual scriptures are contained in every saying or sentence of a spiritual master. Further they are contained in every word of such a master. How is it so?