Selected 100 Letters by Shrimad Rajchandraji

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

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SELECTED 100 LETTERS
is the cause of his worldly life and this has not been written here in detail. I shall think of regularity in my writing letters etc.
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Mumbai, Kartiksud Third Wednesday, V-S 1951
Salutation to the spiritual saint
Shri Lalluji worthy of spiritual contact with a mind full of nonattachment staying at Suryapur (Surat)
May you receive greetings from Raichand from Mumbai and desirous of the state of liberation in this life.
I have received your three letters at short intervals of time. The present soul has lost his right direction and gone on the wrong path because of the covering of steep ignorance or infatuation so the spiritual path does not come to his sight. Besides he firmly believes that the (wrong) path he has adopted is the correct path he should follow and so when he meets a spiritually enlightened saint he does not feel he should surrender to him and follow his instructions. Describing such precarious plight of himself he should in all humility pray as under :
O Lord! I now do not see any correct path of liberation as I have chosen a path for getting looted of all I had and inspite of my easy godliness and after making all efforts accordingly I have acted on quite opposite lines. So I pray you relieve me of all my previous effects and let me grow in me a spirit of complete surrender to a spiritually enlightened master. Please grant me what I pray for and
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SELECTED 100 LETTERS oblige or bless me. The twenty couplets composed by me expressing the above desire of aspirant for liberation must have been memorized by you - the first of these twenty couplets starting with the words; Oh God oh God what shall I say to you? You are the great protector of all miserable souls, being extremely merciful yourself etc. try to appreciate these twenty couplets in your heart so as to develop in you extreme humility and all round surrender to the will of the great enlightened master.
Other eight poems in trotak meter in which I have shown what a spiritual aspirant has wrongly done in the past and what he should rightly do now and that he should realize the futility of his previous efforts and accept the appropriateness of what he should now do - all this he should appreciate and understand in detail. Only this way he can start in the right direction leading to his liberation.
If you have completed reading Yogavasishta then keeping it aside for some time read Uttaradhyayan Sutra. You should inquire whether your family religion can deliver the spiritual good. Normally one does not doubt it and follows his family religious practices believing them to be bringing him to liberation. Thus he misses the bus and goes on wandering aimlessly. Therefore it is desirable for a spiritual aspirant to work for contacting a spiritual master in a short time and surrender to him completely and he should realize that the study of Yogavasishta and Uttaradhyan Sutra etc. are to be read for developing in him a spirit of non-attachment and complete quelling of all worldly desires for enjoying the peace of his self and such reading will help him to see perfect consistency in all teachings of his master leading him to his liberation
Salutations from the real self
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