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
please note that what he has said to you is not wrong. The living soul has many a time come in contact with living spiritually enlightened souls by the strength of whose spiritual guidance he could have got the path of his liberation but he did not recognize them, may be such a living soul might have tried to recognize these enlightened souls as their saviours but his dormant prejudices about acquisition of types of excellence such as prowess, powers of doing wonderful things might have obstructed his clear sight. If this sight is blurred or deluded the spiritual aspirant sees such an enlightened saint as an external living person quite different from him and so making any effort of complete surrender to him next to impossible. This way proper understanding is not done. And when he gets proper or correct understanding then that very soul is so overpowered with extreme unprecedented love and affection for him that even spending a moment in separation of such an enlightened saint becomes a waste or in vain or fruitless, or he becomes indifferent to all other things cherishing a strong desire to be near such an enlightened master. He believes that getting other objects in separation from his spiritual master is only like death. When he passes through such a state of life then he knows that he is very near his path of liberation. To experience such a state of pangs of separation from his master, the contact of maya or infatuation or allurement to worldly objects of happiness serves as a strong observation. But inspite of this, if the spiritual aspirant continues to aspire for union with his spiritual master, he secures such a stage of union with his master very soon or in a short period of time.
All of you by your continuous contact with me, have become a binding force to me. I do not know how can I be free from it. By
advising you that a contact with a living spiritual guide for liberation is a sure path of liberation you all have begun to feel that I am one such living master for you and so I have invited your continuous contact with me. You tried to apply my teaching on me but really speaking I am only a lowly servant of the living spiritually enlightened master; I am only a few particles of dust of the lotus like feet of such a master. Besides where is such an excellent spiritual stage in me by which you can find in me your desired spiritual guide? Such an excellent spiritual stage must be accompanied with total non attachment and it is not to be found in me. You already know how worldly consideration are around me and I am occasionally passing through them. These two last points I have written for all of you. I request you all to lessen your attachment to me. One other point I should like to state to you is that please do not say to anyone else that you all take me as your spiritual guide. My present position you already know.
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Mumbai, Jeth Sud Seventh Saturday, V-S-1947
Om Salutations
Because of horrible present times, where the mind should really concentrate it does not do so.
Mostly true religion is conspicuous by its absence in these times. This is why this time is called Kali Kala. True religion cannot be there in the absence of the spiritually enlightened guide as truth cannot exist or manifest in untruth. Mostly in these times there is no