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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on the path of liberation with all unique love and desire to reach the goal as early as possible.
Here I do not wish to refer you to what is strong desire for liberation. I only wish to tell you what is desire for liberation and its characteristic is presence of impartiality in seeing one's own faults and only by this impartial acceptance of, one's own faults one's own whimsicality is destroyed.
experiences some joy even in a state of desiring liberation, and because of this one loves even the causes of external ease or joy and by this one feels that one should desire for worldly happiness even though short-lived and by this condition of the living soul he blocks his development of fitness for realization or liberation.
All the enlightened saints have called the understanding of the spiritual guide as the highest Godor Parameshwar, the highest religion and this understanding suggests the highest humility in the devotee by which the devotee feels he is the humblest servant of the whole world in general and of his spiritual guide in particular. Only this way the devotee develops his fitness for liberation. Till the human beings highest humility is covered by many obstructive factors, his fitness for liberation is delayed by obstacles or his binding knots of his mind.
Wherever this whimsicality has been hurt or removed to a degree, there a proper background of unqualified acceptance of the guidance of a spiritual saint is prepared.
When one's whimsical nature is suppressed to some extent, then I know that there one has to face three causes obstructing the obtainment of the path of liberation and they are:
1)
Presence of even a small desire to secure worldly happiness.
2) 3)
Absence or want of extreme humility. Indecision of the true self.
In future I will tell you the way to remove or set aside all the above named three causes obstructing the aspirant's march towards liberation. But I describe below in detail the above mentioned three
Suppose the two of the above causes obstructing the desire for liberation are removed, but the spiritual aspirant has not yet decided about the nature of his absolute or true self because of some want in his fitness to know or attain the true self, then also he feels much disturbed and uneasy as neither here nor there and in this condition a false equanimity is experienced by him. He lives in a belief of an imaginary object as his true self and so by passage of time he does not develop undiverted love for his true self which he must realize in future and this absence of true love for the true self is destructive of his highest fitness.
In most of the spiritual aspirants I have met till now, I have seen these three obstructive causes; only in few of them I have found; the lessening of the second cause namely want of extreme humility and if they develop more then extreme humility towards their spiritual guide they may quickly be fit for getting the path of liberation. Extreme
causes.
A slight desire of getting worldy happiness mostly precedes the birth of a strong desire for liberation. The causes of this desire for worldly happiness are: That the true self is there is not undoubtedly accepted by the aspirant human being, or that the same true self is by nature full joy or happiness is not finally decided or the aspirant