Selected 100 Letters by Shrimad Rajchandraji

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

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SELECTED 100 LETTERS 156 157 SELECTED 100 LETTERS 100 (949) Tithal, Valsad, Posha Vad Tenth Tuesday, V.S. 1957 OM I received your consolatory letter knowing the death of wife of my brother Mansukh. The lines written by you while describing the occasions of serving her in deathbed, are quite correct, and these sentences have come from the effect on your pure heart while serving her till death. One whose hallmark of life is public opinion, howsoever such life may be full of wealth, power or high position, or rich with wife and good family, still it is only the source of sorrow and suffering. The life whose hallmark is peace of pure self, may be alone, without any riches and quite naked without any cloth to cover it, still such a life is the abode of the highest peace and meditation. Om Salutation to the enlightened spiritual self. Glossary 1) Samkit : Right knowledge. perception and conduct. 2) Kalikal : Present age 3) Pratikramana Sutra: Jain Sutra for repentence of misdeeds. Jatismaran Jnana: Knowledge of previous births. Samvatsari : Last day of Paryushan Paryushan :Eight day Jain festival of self purification and forgiveness. Tirthankara : A person who attained salvation and wish to liberate other souls. 8) Swachhand - Self guided actions 9) Chaturmas : Four months stay during monsoon. 10) Smaran Mantra : Sahajatma Swaroop Param Guru. 11) Vees Dohra : He Prabhu He Prabhu Shun Kahu. 12) Samyak Jnan : Right knowledge. 13) Samyak Darshan : Right Perception. 14) Samyak Charitra : Right conduct. 15) Veetrag dev: Who have shed love and hatred. 16) Atmasiddhi Shastra : Six tenets of Jainism. a) Soul is there. b) Soul is eternal. c) Soul is the doer of action. d) Soul is the enjoyer and sufferer of actions. e) Moksha (Liberation) is there. f) There is path leading to Moksha 17) Kalpavruksha :A tree which gives every thing one desires. 18) V.S. Veer Samvat * * *