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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SELECTED 100 LETTERS
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Invariably therefore this living soul setting aside all other means for spiritual uplift, should secure spiritual contact as the main cause of Nirvana or release and should completely surrender himself to it. Only by it all other means can be very easily secured and that is my self-realization. If after getting spiritual contact of an enlightened saint if this soul does not secure its welfare then it is this soul's fault and that is that he did not abandon the faulty means which obstructed his right appreciation of the unprecedented and difficult to achieve and hardly available spiritual contact. (If getting burning fire one does not light his candle it is his fault and not that of the burning fire near him). Wrong belief or strongly believing the wrong as right, one's whimsical nature, sloth or inattention to what must be immediately attended to and enjoyment of sense pleasures - if these are not discarded, then only, spiritual contact will not bear the desired result or if to spiritual contact you do not join single minded faith and unprecedented devotion, then also you cannot expect the desired result. If the above qualities are brought to a spiritual contact and if it is followed unflinchingly then in a short time all your hindering prejudices and predilections will vanish and your soul will be free from all faults.
intelligence and after seeing or identifying them he should try to eliminate them and in case he faces a situation to shed his life for keeping that spiritual contact, then he should be prepared to do so. But in no case he should worship any other object even though he feels attracted or affectionate to it. Because in such attraction he is likely to feel he enjoys pleasure or happiness, but in fact it is harmful and never helpful to his spiritual progress, as he is prone to slacken his efforts for spiritual development. By such slackness spiritual contact becomes barren and his efforts for it go in vain and the force he employed for such contact becomes a waste. When a spiritual aspirant recognizes his spiritually enlightened master or is inspired by teachings of such masters and still he is unable to keep himself constantly engaged in appropriate thinking and behaviour, he should regard these teachings as direct conversation with their authors and taking it this way he gets right frame of mind for his spiritual progress. i.e. Samyaktva. A spiritual aspirant should decide once for all that whatever he does is only for promoting his spiritual good and with such firm determination he should bravely face all obstructions of mind, speech and body and try to reduce and remove them and that is worth doing for him. The remedy for removal of all obstructions is abandonment of all wrong beliefs, of all whims, of all sloth and of all desires for getting sense pleasures. All these should be constantly kept in mind while one is in contact with spiritual teachings or with spiritual saints. Because spiritual contact or proximity of spiritual saints is most effective in removing one's faults, but in the absence of the above, the soul strength of the aspirant is the only effective way to remove
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For a living being to know and recognize good spiritual contact is very difficult. If he as a result of good deeds done in his past recognises a spiritual saint and decides him to be his benefactor and the witness of his pure self then he should reduce his worldly activities, should start seeing his own faults from moment to moment and on various occasions by sharp