Selected 100 Letters by Shrimad Rajchandraji

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

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up and doing for his spiritual gain. For this purpose, good spiritual contact, reading scriptural texts and perfect humility and simplicity will be extremely helpful to every spiritual aspirant. He should adopt these means.
It is very simple to understand that a spiritual aspirant cannot develop above means of spiritual advancement till he is caught in the mess of fear of public opinion, greed for wealth, desire for having worldly acquisitions property physical and intellectual, bodily pride, honour, good family breeding, caste etc. and strong attachment to all these, he desires to keep with him.
At present I am not prompted to write more but on some other occasion I shall do so. I have really written more than my present condition would allow me to write to you because of your curiosity and fate.
destroy my cyclic rotational living and this is the only possible remedy for its removal. Whatever contacts of the world may have been ordained for me after their completion, my soul's contact with my human body will end and it will leave me forever. My body separation from my soul is sure to happen at one time or other early or late. But if I leave it under the shelter of my spiritual master then only such separation is beneficial to me. Because under such a spiritual shelter, I can enjoy my real self either in this birth or after some time after the death of my body.
You and Shri Muni keep on meeting Khushaldas occasionally. If you feel in him any possibility of his accepting celibacy nonpossession of worldly objects etc - then Shri Muni should ask him to adopt them and there is no objection in his doing so.
Let us be always under the protective shelter of the knot-less spiritual guidance of Shri Jin.
I am not my body etc. and none of my relatives, my wife, children, friends etc., are really mine. I am pure consciousness eternally existing and imperishable self. By contantly aspiring such self, all my attachments and hatred get completely destroyed.
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Mumbai, Second Jetha Vad
V.S 1952 Human body which rarely comes to a living being in its worldly cyclic rotation of many births and death is now received and yet a man could not utilise it for self-realisation or liberation. But my human body has achieved its purpose where in I could recognize the enlightened Shri Jin and I sought his spiritual shelter and by his help, many of my wrong prejudices got destroyed, and sol sincerely desire leaving my present body in his protection. Only those who possess self knowledge that can destroy the soul's cyclic rotation of innumerable births and deaths, the protection of such souls only can
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Mumbai, Ashadha Sud Second,
Sunday, V-S. 1952 Let a man sleep quietly who is a friend of death or who can escape death or who feels with determination that he will never die.