Selected 100 Letters by Shrimad Rajchandraji

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

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his faults. If an aspirant does not follow the spiritual master's teaching or advice then he can never achieve his good.
All what I have written in above words, should all spiritual aspirants costantly keep in mind and follow them with all the force they can muster. Only this way they will develop soul strength and spiritual virtues.
and their being a source of much pain and misery to you. I read it as described by you vividly giving examples.
It is for this reason that even a person who is wide awake to his spiritual knowledge should be watchful and alert when he faces the forcible temptations of worldly life. And this teaching of Shri Jain Vitarag is quite to the point and it should guide all of us very effectively lest we may be slow in following the right religion. We should commit these teaching of Shri Jin Vitrag to heart without giving scope to any doubt about their truth. If you find it impossible to set aside worldly attachments, then shorten such activities and gradually get freed from them. This is the basic duty of a spiritual aspirant, and try to follow it by the help of spiritual contact, by reading scriptural texts and thereby pursuing right religion.
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Mumbai, Ashadha Sud Eleventh
Wednesday, V-S-1951 The result of past bad deeds that brings a living soul to his contact with this world is called in the teachings of Shri Jin Anantanubandh or binding the Soul with endless knots, and in it the soul completely identifies itself with the world with wrong attachments and proceeds headlong in it, going away from its real self. And this fundamentally happens when a living soul begins to insult and oppose the right divinity, right spiritual master and right religion and thus he tries to run away from them and accept for his worship the wrong divinity the wrong non-spiritual master and the wrong religion and he considers in doing so that he has rightly done what he should dutifully have done. All such behaviour is called Anantanubandhi Kashaya of living being. Or in the teaching of the enlightened spiritual master he brings in the aspirations for wife, sons etc. and begins to cherish them beyond limit and thus he disregards those teachings. In brief this seems to me the meaning of Anantanubandhi Kashaya.
You find that a very stong desire for having a wife, children etc. who once were there with you and after you left them you felt as if you would never have them at all knowing their transitoriness
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Mumbai, Ashadh Vad Fifteenth
V.S. 1951 I have written below the second variety of Anantanubandhi(Infinite bondage) in detail. Please note it carefully.
Till by the rise of strong worldly desires or by weakening intellectual powers of reasoning coupled with your spirit of indifference, you engage in worldly activities of contacting wife and children affectionately and passionately. This activity of yours does not indicate that you acted with total disrespect of the enlightened teachers instructions but when you get so much engrossed in passionate life that return from it is made more and more difficult for you then there the teachings of your spiritual master are definitely