Shrimad Rajchandra And Mahatma Gandhi

Author(s): Kumarpal Desai
Publisher: Raj Saubhag Satsang Mandal

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Shrimad Rajchandra's Message 27
before real death ever comes.
Shrimad further added, "Why indulge in such terrible emotional death every moment of your life? Why do you let the delusion influence you in making you surrender your own eternal qualities of knowledge, perception, conduct, and consciousness and experience terrible death every moment?"
Here Shrimad highlighted a new concept; that even an instant of being deluded is no less than momentary death itself. How many times does our consciousness suffer this emotional death due to passions such as anger, greed, deceit and ego? To save these souls from such emotional deaths, Shrimad urged them to live a life replete with the inner treasures of knowledge, perception, conduct, renunciation and awareness of consciousness, and thereby experience death only once at the end of one's lifespan. The message Shrimad conveyed was: 'overcome the fear of death and stop the suffering of emotional death every moment of your life'.
The great preceptors of the past have all spoken about victory over death, while Shrimad adding to that encouraged living a life of knowledge, perception, conduct, renunciation and awareness of consciousness to win over the fear of death, instead of a puerile life filled with passion, delusion and dying an emotional death every living moment
To develop fearlessness, one has to start with overcoming anxiety about one's possessions. A person's possessions are the major cause for mental worries and fear. Firstly, one strives hard to augment materialistic possessions. Once acquired, the protection and care of these possessions gives rise to insecurity, worries and fear, leading to sleepless nights. When acquiring wealth or authority, the ordinary man or woman puts aside all morals and