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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SELECTED 100 LETTERS
fearlessly in this world with deep feeling of doing good to the devotees. Once such a guide meets you, you serve his lotuslike feet and you realize the state of the real self as he has himself experienced. All enlightened all-knower's have followed the same path of liberation and this is what every one of the same kind, is following now and will follow in future. I acquired illumination or spiritual knowledge in the same way and in the present or future times, same is the way for spiritual enlightenment. All scriptures advise it and so man or any living being desiring liberation should propitiate or scrupulously follow or adopt the same path of liberation. The troubled soul has wandered whimsically in his endless past without following this path. Till he is blind folded by his own whims he cannot find this royal path so he should reflect about it, to eliminate or destroy his blindness, he should be actuated by a strong desire to liberate himself without any idleness or sloth and then only he gets this path and his blindness gets away. This you must believe in undoubtedly as the living soul has followed the wrong path from times immemorial. Though he has many times chanted the names of many religious enlightened souls of the past, he has practised penance, he has studied the spiritual scriptures etc., yet he has not done what he properly must have done and this is what I have told you at the start.
Lord Rishabhadevaji in his couplet numbers 31 and 32, second cento of the first Shruta Skandha of his Suyagadanga Sutra or aphorisms wherein he has advised his ninety eight sons and led them on the path of liberation, has given same instructions as under :- you long-lived sons! This soul has done everything without the right one. Now what is it? Then
we tell you definitely in reply that he has not accepted or grasped the teaching of a spiritual guide nor has he heard his spiritual advices or he has not acted scrupulously according to his instructions and this is termed by us as the Samayika of the monks and this in other words, is the acquisition of the nature of one's true self.
Sudharma Swami instructs Jambu Swami that Bhagavan Mahavira who has envisioned the whole world and its contents has instructed us thus - Innumerable devotees who followed their preceptor's instructions in letter and spirit, got the real path of their liberation and achieved liberation successfully. Not here but at all places and all scriptures have preached the same path of liberation.
'Aanaye Dhammo Aanaye Tapo' Spiritual guide's instructions are the real religion and also real penance. This is also stated in Aacharanga Sutra. At all the places the spiritually great men have given similar advices but the living soul has not well understood it and the main cause of it is his whimsicality.
Whoever has straightened his whimsical behaviour of thinking, speaking and acting has secured the best and unfailing remedy to remove or destroy pratibaddhata or strong bondage of worldly opinions, of his family ties, of his false sense of self honour and pride of his body, and of his desires, wishes and imagination. Think more on this matter and while reflecting on it, you ask me any thing you wish me to clarify. If you become fit spiritually following this instruction, then permanent peace and quietude you will secure from all sides. This is what you should secure and search for a person who can bring you near to it.