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The Self Realization
and He is the only real, and there is nothing else. In Bible, Christ said, "I and my Father are one. All the rest are only manifestations of the one God." In the expression of the same perennial truth that Reality is only one without a second, many religious and philosophical brains have offered their perspectives and unfortunately their verbal differences have been the cause of much doubt, disbelief and dispair for the laymen. Those who are in earnest about their salvation should leave these differences and follow the advice of the experienced Guru rather than be lost in the interpretations of the various religious texts. We as steeped in the world by consciousness, are already imperfect and we are trying to take the help of the imperfect scriptures thinking that they are less imperfect than ourselves. We are led by them to a certain limit but beyond it they leave us in the lurch and there we are to rely on spiritual experience alone and none else. Our spiritual experience becomes our guide, illuminates our future path, assures our march and pushes us to the goal. Sri Raichandbhai says in one of his poems i.e. Apurva Avasara, "The stage of experience which the All-seeing Mahavira saw in spiritual knowledge, He could not himself describe in full. I meditated on that very stage of spiriual experience but I found that I was also incompetent to describe it. I have a desire to describe it in full but for the present it has remained only as my cherished desire.'
It is clear from the above that Atman or self alone is to liberate itself. This truth is repeatedly declared by Sri Raichandbhai in many of his writings. He had studied many religious books. He followed Sanskrit and Magadhi languages very well. He studied Vedanta, Bhagavata and Gita. He read the Jaina scriptures as many as he could obtain. He had a fine style of reading
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