Selected 100 Letters by Shrimad Rajchandraji

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

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by Shri Lalluji. Still if Shri Devakaranji is keen about reading it now, then I do not object to it provided he reads it with the following mental readiness. He should decide unreservedly that none has more spiritually benefited him except the living spiritual guide and that in his future life if he leaves this decision, he should feel and know that he has left the propitiation of his pure self and he has invited the sin of ignoring the gratitude of one who deserved his recognition and admission of his gratefulness to his spiritual guide. He should also bear in mind that his spiritual good lies along in his total obedience to his spiritual master and this admission he should carry out without any sense of differences between various spiritual guides or between persons and he should leave aside all imaginary ideas about the worldly people.
aspirants, may appreciate the instructions of a spiritual master and may become non-attached to worldly life and their interest in sense pleasures may wane. The study of this Atmasiddhi Shastra will bring these and many other spiritual benefits to all who read and hear it.
For innumerable times in the past, this self is engaged in satisfying bodily demands. If instead a body which spends itself for serving the pure self then in that body spiritual desire for selfknowledge and self realization will grow strong and leaving aside all considerations of the body such a living body will manifest in it the permanent shining lustrous self and the whole being will be a siddha or perfect self realised spiritual substance.
Salutations to all spiritual aspirants.
Shri Sahajatmasvarup.
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With above said mental preparedness Shri Devakaranji can undertake the study and full grasp of Atmasiddhi Shastra in company of Shri Lalluji monk. Such study by him is also likely to bring him solutions of many of his doubts in religious matter.
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Vavania, Magashar Sud Sixth, Thursday V-S. 1953.
A person who firmly decides to follow the instructions of his spiritual guide and carries them out without any let or hindrance and wholeheartedly, he only receives spiritual knowledge which surely leads him to his liberation. This should be borne in mind by all spiritual aspirants. All enlightened spiritual saints are witness to what I have written above.
Received the news of the death of Shri Manekchand. All embodied persons or beings are totally unprotected at death. Only those knowing from the beginning the nature of their bodies correctly and so leaving aside all sense of possessing the bodies, live steadily or having grasp of the spiritual path of the enlightened saints, go through death fearlessly and mostly they do not take any birth in future or they by reducing largely their possessiveness of their bodies are fearless in facing death. Knowing well that they do not know when death will face them, from the beginning of their sense of selfconsciousness, these reflective persons try to be free from all
Shri Lalluji and Shri Devakaranji should read this Atmasiddhi Shastra to others so that non-attachment, spiritual quiet or peace and spiritual discrimination in all of you, may increase and the truths expressed in it, may well find a permanent place in the hearts of its readers and hearers, besides other persons may begin to be spiritual