Selected 100 Letters by Shrimad Rajchandraji

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

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SELECTED 100 LETTERS
You may follow other means of spiritual benefit after securing the one I have stressed above as after serious reflection, you will never find any other path of liberation. However if you think there is another equally effective path of liberation, then let me know it so that what I think proper may be told to you.
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Mumbai, Posh V.S. 1947
Salutation to the right spiritual self without any distinction or difference and with singleminded devotion.
One who has a strong desire for liberation should set aside all other thoughts and repeatedly date on the following thought - Inspite of repeating the endless cycle of births and deaths why has this wandering soul not yet received freedom from this world or liberation? And which way can this be achieved?
In these two questions there is a vast meaning implied and without thinking out the solutions of these two questions, one cannot even find the faint direction of the path of liberation. One has not only to aspire for it, but has to take all troubles for searching it out. In the past, one has not achieved any concrete result by following other ways of thinking nor will one achieve anything about it by them in future. I have known this truth firmly. So all of you who take me as your guide, have to think the same thoughts and reach solutions such as I have reached. After this, nothing else remains to be known. Accept this as certain truth.
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Mumbai,
Maha Sud V.S. 1947
Series of Spiritual Sayings
The living soul has forgotten his own nature and so he is far away from real happiness. This is approved by all religions.
This ignorance or self forgetting is totally removed by the dawn of proper knowledge and this you should believe without any doubt.
Knowledge can only be had from one who has it i.e. from the enlightened person. Naturally this is a fact and yet the living soul, afraid of public criticism such as loss of prestige, does not forsake the resort to an ignorant preceptor and this is the root cause of many unending binding forces such as anger, love, hatred, pride, greed
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One who aspires for right knowledge should necessarily follow the instructions and advice of his enlightened teacher. This is said by all scriptures beginning from those of Jaina religion to many other ones. This soul has fruitlessly wandered at his own whim a number of times in the past without attaining the final truth.
5. Removal of ignorance is not at all possible without following the instructions of a right spiritually enlightened preceptor.