Selected 100 Letters by Shrimad Rajchandraji

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

Page 43

SELECTED 100 LETTERS
SELECTED 100 LETTERS
37.(432)
Mumbai, Falgun Sud Seventh
Thursday, V.S. 1949 I received a letter from Ambalal. The only way to dislodge the living soul from wrong attachments and to fix it in the true self is the devotional contact of the spiritually enlightened person who is well set in self realization full of peace and ease, with no desire for worldly things. It is a matter of good fortune to contact such a guide in a quiet place of retirement and there are many obstacles in the way of getting such a place and such a guide in it. Therefore feel repeatedly that I am quite near you and with you and read and reflect on those books describing indifference to this worldly life.
The highest indication of all spiritual scriptures is that the living soul should act as the real self and one should constantly think and desire that way. This is the only goal of every living soul
The very fact that a living soul has not known its real self inspite of spending endless time in worldly living shows that it is a very difficult task or that proper occasion has not yet arisen for it. It only feels from indefinite time that it knows something or that it is not that it does not know something and it always remains in forgetfulness of its real nature. This matter should be reflected upon in many ways and the remedy for it should also be considered in many ways.
38 (436)
Mumbai ,Chaitra Sud First
V.S. 1949 Samata Ramata Uradhata Jnayakata Sukhabhasa Vedakata Chaitanyata E Sab Jiva Vilas
Meaning: The bliss of the self is expressed in its equanimity, beautifulness, upward march, knowability by experiencing of happiness, enjoyability and conscious existence.
The Tirthankara God Shri Vardhaman Mahavira has described the self truly as best as it can be described in the above couplet. To him I bow down setting aside all other kinds of expectations. I bow down to the teachings of the Tirthankara Bhagavan which helped me to be devoted to the spiritually enlightened master as a result of reflecting on many religious scriptures in the past.
I bow down to the instructions about the path of liberation given by that great Tirthanakara who after many ways of my thinking about the pure self definitely fixed my faith in the fact that the real self cannot be known by anyway other than the help of the person who has become the pure self..
Ibow down to the teachings of the great Tirthankara whose aim was to explain to me that the real self can be easily known and experienced by surrendering to the guidance of a spiritual saint and by no other means no matter how one practises yoga and such other means to realize the pure self.
- Incomplete