Selected 100 Letters by Shrimad Rajchandraji

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

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impositions. This living soul is really unborn, indestructible, bodiless, permanent and ever present or eternal as pure self. So imposing such relations on him is sheer madness or infatuation and no aspirant for liberation should fall prey to it.
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The kind of infatuation etc. you wrote to me about, will put both the parties in continuous transformations and therefore an occasion for misery for both the souls. If an enlightened soul behaves as infatuated by accepting such relations, it amounts to putting one's feet on the knowledge or illumination he has acquired and it is the source of his night of ignorance. Knowing this well, both the parties should realize their independence of each other and get free from any bond of relationship. For their ultimate good both of them should think rightly and feel their real selves keeping aside their worldly relationsip. This way they should spend no time in realising. As far as possible you and other spiritual aspirants near you should retire from all such talks of relationship and thus be on the path of your spiritual progress. This will be for the benefit of every living soul.
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Mumbai, Ashadha Sud Sixth Sunday V-S. 1950
To my affectionate friend Shri Subhagya at Anjar (Kutch) I received your detailed letter and a postcard too. Every spiritual aspirant should think of the questions written in your letter.
Whatever means of liberation followed by an aspirant living soul in his past do not seem to have been followed according to the instructions of his spiritually enlightened master and this appears to
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me an undoubted fact. If it had been done so then such soul would not have been still. roaming in this cycle of birth and death. The instructions of an enlightened spiritual saint are a strong stopper of the worldly cycle of birth and death. An enlightened spiritual master has no other end or aim but to guide his disciple to what illumination or liberation he himself has reached or obtained and after selfrealisation his living body continues only to go through the results of his past deeds. Such a self realized spiritual guide or master's instruction inspires a spiritual aspirant to his liberation only. And his living soul has not at all known in his past what is self-interest only his self-interest continues with his transmigration only by way of his loss of memory of it. Such an ignorant human being by following his own imaginary means for liberation can never achieve liberation but on the contrary he develops a false understanding full of pride that he proceeds on the path of liberation and such pride or misunderstanding cause him to continue in the cycle of birth and death. If one considers that he has attained self-realization - an experience which never comes in dream or which is not possible even in his dream then he cannot gain any spiritual advantage. Similarly this living soul has been blind to his real self and as such he has passed through many lives in his past yet believes something as a means to liberation by his fertile imagination, then it is quite easy to believe that he can never be successful in getting the right way to self realization. Thus it appears to me that there is no other means of liberation for such a blind soul but the unique or unprecedented spiritual knowledge and such spiritual knowledge cannot be attained without unique thought about it. And realizing that such unique thought cannot come to a man without propitiation to an enlightened spiritual guide or master and strict adherence to his instructions, the principle is proved that the best way of being an illuminated spiritual saint or