Selected 100 Letters by Shrimad Rajchandraji

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

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out the path, surveyed it and propitiated it well and following it whole heartedly they merged in their highest state of pure self.
When these spiritual researchers searched for the root causes of the experience of pleasure and pain they found as their joyful surprise that they came out stronger after going through great and grave pain as compared with their feeling after going through internally burning but externally peaceful ease, and they saw that the past suffering period brought them to much spiritual encouragement and they found that period more beneficial to them.
They sometimes used external medicines to remove the burning suffering of pain keeping it within limits of their living soul, but principally they regarded complete quelling of these sufferings as the best medicine.
The repeated teaching of the great saints is that a living being should retire completely from evanescent feelings of pleasure and pain. Heavy or light suffering, considerations of ease and uneasiness, deciding once for all that the real self does not suffer or enjoy any of the mental or physical ills; that it is quite peaceful by nature, always free and unattached and eternally present in every soul. Whatever a living being suffers or enjoys results from his body Tejas (celestial body) and Karman (causal) bodies from all of which his pure self is quite different that this soul by nature a knower will have to experience pleasure and pain till he gets full release and so he should indifferently bear them. His only burning desire should be to obtain pure selfmanifestation, self-existence, self shining etc. This is the natural state of pure self.
The best causes of spiritual good of the spiritual aspirants who search for the right path of liberation and desire to secure it, the totally non-attached divine person, the spiritual master also totally free from all worldly knots, desireless and with full faith in their real
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self, and ever kind religious behaviour full of sympathy for the spiritual aspirant and the scriptural texts containing highest peaceful spiritual secrets are worthy of worship till the aspirant completely masters the spiritual path of liberation.
Bhisananarayagaiya Tiriyagaiya Kudevamanunyagaiya! Pattosi Tivva Dukhham, Bhavahi Jinabhasana Jiva !!
O Living being! you suffered extreme miseries in the deadly lowest kind of birth as seen in the births of various birds and animals and in the worst divine and human births. Now is the opportunity in this human birth for you to adopt the path of the liberated Jin. By following this path, you will gain complete peace by the separation of all endless miseries from you just as the great Jain Mahavira gained complete rest and peace in realizing his pure self.
Om Peace, Peace, Peace.
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Dharmpur, Chaitra Vad Sixth Friday, V-S-1956
OM Salutation
In the serial order of complete peace, the Upsham Samyakatva or right understanding of complete peace is included.
The nature of obstructive actions gets destroyed along with the destruction of four kinds of deadly harmful actions, and thereby get destroyed also all obstructions to giving in charity, to getting spiritual gains, to enjoying high stages of spiritual powers or to the soul, strength and to upbhoga repeated enjoyment of pleasure.