Selected 100 Letters by Shrimad Rajchandraji

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

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It is the duty of all living beings always to seek shelter of that great Bhagawan Mahavir and of his victorious religious path of liberation even those who were otherwise powerless-those who were not at all intelligent and were quite weak, sought shelter of this Lord and by the strength of such shelter have got unprecedented fruits of everlasting happiness such other persons have received such fruits and in future persons following the lords religious path will receive undoubtedly similar spiritual results. Therefore only such determination and such shelter must be made and sought by every spiritual aspirant for liberation.
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Ider, Margashirsh Vad Fourth
Saturday V-S. 1955 Om Salutations
Every spiritual aspirant should specially try for having a contact of the enlightened saint who has realised his pure self for increasing his strength of spiritual desire or aspiration for liberation his thought power, his strength of non-attachment, his strength of meditation and his power of knowledge. Even here I find many obstructions troubling the spiritual aspirants in our times and so keeping one's desire to know the pure self, he should necessarily try for getting spiritual personal contact of an enlightened spiritual guide and till such contact is not reached, he should constantly read the teachings of Lord Mahavir which will effectively bring spiritual peace and progress to him. For setting one's mind in spiritual aspiration for liberation what is said above, is the best medicine
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It is not proper to be afraid of one's body and other surrounding obstructions by one's mind.
Persons who are neither pleased nor feel sorrow about their bodies have already understood in brief complete twelve sectors of virtuous life. Please understand this well. Only that viewpoint you should adopt.
Without being sorrowful at the fact that you have not understood any religion and that now how shall you understand or grasp it, you should keep courage taking shelter of your determination that your self is unattached pure sentience free from pleasure and pain and eternally peaceful and happy. And when you feel weak in such belief, you should remember the stage of total non-attachment of the non attached saints: you should turn your gaze on the wonderful behaviour of these saints and revive full strength of thought and feeling for following the lords spiritual path. Only this way you should get the best desired spiritual results.
Completely free from all thoughts other than the thought of my pure self.
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Shri Vavania, Chaitra Sud Fifth
V.S. 1955 The contact of one's pure self (Dravyanuyoga) is very great and subtle. This is the secret of the teachings of Lord Mahavira. It is the unique cause of Shukla Dhyana or pure meditation on the nature of self and by such pure meditation, absolute knowledge of pure self manifests, and very fortunately the contact of one's pure self is obtained. This happens by the blessing or destruction of wrong perception, by indifference towards all sense attractions, and by the strength of propitiating the lotus like feet of an enlightened saint.
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