"Extreme Possessiveness Is The Root Cause Of Many Sins..."

                                     To reduce possessions...


SHRIMADJI said...


A living being having no limit to its possessions, is not happy. 


Whatever such a greedy person acquires, he desires to get more than it and in his burning desire to get more and more, he is unable to enjoy fully what he already has acquired, and sometimes he loses what he has already got. 


By such greed, his mind remains always unsatisfied and it becomes unstable and he indulges in sinful activities to satisfy his greed. 


In case, by accident he loses his life in the craze for getting more possessions, then it becomes the cause of his downfall. 


The best of monks can absolutely abandon all acquisitions or possessions, but even householders can fix up a limit of their possessions, according to their real needs. 


By fixing a limit, one does not try to keep with him more than what he requires within his limits; and this way, he develops a sense of satisfaction in what he has already acquired and he becomes free from a mad desire to get more and more of what he has with him. 


Thus he passes his time happily. 


It is a strange nature of wealth that when one has it, his desire to get more grows and thus his greed increases day by day. 


Rarely a man even possessed of some religious knowledge and firmly believing in leading a religious good life, can free himself from the fetters of greed, and his inclinations get stuck up in this greed.


Those who did not put a limit to greed, have been found to have suffered harm immensely.Thus greed or extreme  possessiveness is the root cause of many sins.


It may be called the father of sins.


Its nature is to obstruct eleven vows.


Therefore one who works for the uplift of his own soul, should at all cost abandon greed and behave putting limit to his acquisitions or possessions.


In short one should live with the satisfaction of his minimum needs... 


SHRIMAD RAJCHANDRA(Mokshmala lesson 25)

  

"Your Soul Also Remains Free From Avoidable Sins..."

                           Carefulness in Doing Every Work (Yatna) 


SHRIMADJI said...


Just as discrimination is the root element of religion, Yatna or carefulness to see that no living being is hurt by our action, is the subsidiary origin or root of religion. 


By discrimination, we can grasp religious teachings and by careful behavior in accord with them, the elements of religion can be kept pure and one's behavior can be properly religious. 


Yatna means careful and beneficial non-violent behavior. 


Yatna to be observed by Saints of Jain religion are called five Samities which are super most.


These five Samities or five types of careful behavior which protect the great vow of compassion or non-violence, of Jain Saints cannot be completely observed by a householder, still if he behaves with care, he can to a good extent observe the vow of non-violence. 


What is therefore important, is very careful and modest behavior and gentle action in all possible ways. 


Where there is carelessness, there compassion cannot be easily observed - compassion gross and subtle prescribed by Jineshwar Bhagawan. 


And all this happens because of want of sufficient carefulness or Yatna. 


Swift and fast walk, 


imperfect way of cleaning water, 


use of firewood without removing dust and insects moving on it, 


using anything without a proper look at it, 


imperfect inspection of germs in corn, 


keeping utensils for long without proper cleaning, unclean and dusty rooms, 


Spilling water in the entrance of one's house, 


keeping unused cooked food for long, 


putting a hot dish on floor without keeping it on a good wooden support, 


doing all these things, one gains only uncleanliness, obstructions and loss of health and these cause great sins. 


Therefore one is advised to do every action carefully to avoid any hurt to a living being or a loss of even a small insect or germ. 


So use carefulness in walk, sitting, getting up, dining, and such other daily activities. 


By such careful behavior, you save many things; not only you keep your things and instruments of use clean but your soul also remains free from avoidable sins. 


Walk slowly and gently, keep your house very clean, keep clean water by passing it twice or thrice through a clean cloth so as to free it from dust and small germs, use firewood after removing dust and insects moving in it. 


All this care does not take much of our time and it is not difficult to follow in ordinary householder's life. 


Once you make such rules, it forms into a habit, and by such care many poor germs who have done no harm to us, are easily saved by us from our careless killing them.


It becomes therefore the duty of every discriminative householder or shrawaka to do every work with due and proper care...


SHRIMAD RAJCHANDRA(Mokshmala lesson 27)

"Contact Of a Saint Is The Root Of All Happiness..."

                               SATSANGA (Contact of the Saints)


SHRIMADJI said...


Contact of a saint is the root of all happiness. 


By contact with a Saint, one can achieve his best desires for soul's progress. 


Contact with a Saint is the best means to purify our-self. 


What we gain by a few minutes of contact with a Saint, cannot be achieved by many years of bad contacts, on the contrary such bad contact prompts us to incur many sinful deeds, and defiles our soul. 


The general meaning of Satsanga or Saintly contact is the contact with the best person. 


Where there is no pure and clean air, there is the breeding ground of diseases; similarly in the absence of contact with the Saints, the soul's diseases are on the increase. 


As we try to close our nose by cloth from inhaling filthy smell, so it is necessary to keep away from bad contacts. 


Worldly life is also one kind of contact, and it is infinitely bad contact bringing pain and misery to our soul and therefore abandoning it, is highly desirable. Whatever kind of contact not helping one in self-realization is no good contact. 


Satsanga or contact with al Saint always puts us on the right path of self-realization. 


That which shows us the path to liberation is really good friendship. 


To keep our mind solely engaged in reading and thinking about the best religious books is also a Saintly contact. 


Meeting Saintly persons and observing their disciplined life is also a kind of Saintly contact. 


As the dirt and dust of a cloth is washed out by a good detergent or a soap and clean water, so the teachings of religious works and those of Saintly persons in our contact, help us to remove all binding Karmas of our soul so as to purify and liberate it. 


Take it for certain that a contact advocating attachment, enticement to pleasures like music, dance and encouraging sweet or tasty food, howsoever you live in such contact, is definitely a bad contact and it must be avoided at all cost. 


Even one saying gained by Saintly contact, gives us invaluable benefit. 


Therefore philosophers, have principally advised us to avoid all worldly contacts and keeping aside all other thoughts and feelings in our mind should think of our loneliness. 


In this advice praise of contact with Saints and good religious books is included. 


Absolute unity of mind means keeping one's mind in deep meditation or in the study of Yoga. 


But contact of similar thinking persons irrespective of their number is also a kind of loneliness because their behavior has exemplary similarity based on identical feeling and thinking and willing. 


And in this way, the contact of the Saints, all working for same goal or purpose of self-liberation, is also a kind of loneliness; If it is asked that why should the contact of many sense-indulging persons not be called loneliness as they also think of similar thoughts and behavior, our reply is that such persons are not of the same nature. 


They are led away by their different self-interests and they quarrel among themselves and work for cross-purposes inviting unending troubles and worries to all around. 


Where a contact involves selfish interest and illusion or Maya, is not to be regarded as good contact at all. 


Such contacts are never pure or faultless. 


When great monks meet they are pleased with one another, they respect each other, they are free from considerations of love and hate, they are all self contented and they all think of purifying their own souls and help others to do so. 


Also to some extent such Saintly contact is of a person engrossed in religious meditation with minimum movement. 


Joy derived from contact with the Saints is highly praiseworthy. 


A Saintly contact gives best knowledge, clarifies several questions from scriptures, describes or tells stories of knowledge and meditations of various kinds, inspires good reflection on the characters of Saints, releases waves of philosophical thoughts, is a place where there is a discussion of essential principles of good religion with an impartial or non-sectarian point of view, where there is much deliberation on statements about liberation - such saintly contact is very difficult to obtain. 


If it is asked as to the possibility of the presence of a deluded person in saintly contact, here is the answer. 


Where there is illusion and selfishness, it is not a Saintly contact at all. 


The crow in the assembly of swans, if not detected by color or appearance, will be easily distinguished or recognized by its different voice; if it keeps mum, it can be identified by its facial features, but it will not go into darkness. 


Besides what will deluded people engrossed in the life of worldly enjoyments gain by going to the assembly of Saints? 


There in Saintly contact, there will be no talk of eating; possibly they may go to the Saint for a little peace from worldly worries and if one goes there once, he may like to go there frequently for developing a love of a life of religious discipline and it may be for his good; and suppose he does not like the talk of the Saint, he may stop contacting him further. 


As you cannot swim on solid earth, you can never degenerate into bad life by saintly contact. 


This is the wonderful effect of saintly contact. 


Which worldly person with delusion would go to a saint whose contact is faultless and whose behavior is morally exemplary ? 


Rarely any unfortunate and that too is impossible. 


Saintly contact is a supreme beneficial medicine for a troubled soul.... 


(SHRIMAD RAJCHANDRA Mokshmala Lesson 24)

"what Is Good Moral Life..."

                                

                                           True Greatness

Shrimadji said...

"Some believe that true greatness consists in wealth, some believe it to consist in having a high family status, some believe it to consist in having good sons, some by positions of power and high authority; but all these beliefs are false or wrong or erroneous when looked at from a discriminative intelligence. 

Whatever these people regard as greatness is not really great at all, on the contrary these things or achievements are insignificant.

You may be believing that in worldly life you become great getting good food, drink, honor, command over servants, prosperity and all these on the strength of your wealth, but just because of these achievements only you cannot be really great, you should not believe this to be greatness at all. 

Wealth is collected by incurring many many sins; when achieved, it breeds pride, inattention towards duties, indiscrimination to what is right and what is wrong in you.

For achieving a high family status you have to maintain a large family satisfying all its needs, and in so doing you have to incur sins and suffer pains and miseries; you have to maintain your family by many immoral acts. 

Having good sons, does not give us forever, good name and fame and for maintaining them also we have to perform sinful deeds of many kinds; and with all these what benefit we gain?

By authority or power we become dependent on persons senior to us, we get puffed up with pride of power and sometimes we have to become cruel and inflict pain on others, sometimes we have to employ immoral or questionable means, sometimes we have to bribe persons and be unjust to some persons; sometimes we have to use these means willingly or sometimes we are forced to employ them un-willingly. 

Tell me then what greatness lies in all these? 

Only greatness of our sinful Karmas. 

By sinful Karmas we down our soul and where there is our soul's downfall there is no greatness at all, on the other hand it is only lowerness.

Soul's greatness lies in truth speaking, compassion, forgiveness, benevolence and equanimity. 

Wealth etc. gives greatness to our Karmas and not to our soul. 

Thinking this way wise persons give their wealth in charity, become relievers of other people's pain and sorrow by establishing best schools of learning; keeping only one wife, look at all other women as their daughters. 

They by their families become beneficial to a certain community; entrusting the burden of maintenance of worldly life to their sons they devote their life to a religious discipline; they show to others what is good moral life by wisely conducting their authority or power for the benefit of the King whom they advise or serve and also benefit the subjects of the king by wise and judicious administration. 

In this way a kind of true greatness is achieved. 

But even such greatness is not fixed and firm. 

There is always a fear of death. 

What one hopes to do, he is unable to do and his hopes remain in the precincts of his own mind. 

The world attraction is such that one forgets his plan or one loses his discriminative power. 

Therefore we should definitely or undoubtedly realize that there is no real greatness like truth speaking, compassion, forgiveness, celibacy and equanimity. 

Bhikshuk or one monk observing pure five great vows achieves real powers and real greatness - the like of which had not been achieved by even Brahamadatta-sovereign ruler of a large kingdom by his wealth, family, sons and high authority. 

This is my view..." 

Shrimad Rajchandra...(Mokshmala Lesson 16) 

"Life of a Best Householder..."

                             Best Householder (Uttam Gruhastha) 


Shrimadji said...


"Even while dwelling in his worldly householder's life the best Shrawaka (who has contacted best teachers, hears their teaching carefully, is discriminative and modest) is successfully under going spiritual discipline; his order of a householder becomes praiseworthy.


Such best householder performs 


Samayika = to take a vow Of equanimous behavior; 


Kshamapana = to beg pardon before Shri Bhagawan Mahavir for any of his fault or faults; 


Chovihar Pratyakhyan, a vow not to take four types of food at night; 


Yam = to practice restraints and follow injunctions of good behavior for the whole of his life and 


Niyam = observes some vows for a specific period of time.


He views other women just like his mother or sister according to the age of the woman seen.


He gives as per his capacity money and food in charity to the right persons who have grasped the truth - they are called Satpatra or rightly deserving persons.


He speaks Peacefully sweet and soft language.


He always thinks of right religious scriptures.


As far as possible he does not resort to falsehood, deceit etc., to earn his livelihood in business or other avocation.


He gives due respect to his parents, his wife, his sons, Muni or Monk and preceptor.


He gives religious discourses to his parents.


He takes due care in keeping his house clean, in cooking purpose, in arranging food materials, in sleeping accommodations etc...


He behaves intellectually and teaches his wife and children lessons of modesty and humility by his own modest and humble behavior He makes them religious minded.


He increases unity in his whole family.


He welcomes a guest with due honor and respect.


He never sends away the beggar at his door without giving him food to satisfy hunger.


He always keeps himself in contact with right religious persons or men of noble thoughts and deeds and he always approaches them with a view to learn from them lessons of noble behavior.


He always behaves within the limits of his stature in life and feels contented with what is with him.


He always keeps to his capacity a library of good religious works.


He maintains or runs his family life with minimum needs and with due care, keeps away from hurting any living being.


Such life of a best householder Shrawaka leads him to his best spiritual development and this is what is said by the all-knowing best men...." 


Shrimad Rajchandra. (Mokshmala Lesson 12.) 

"One Who Burns All The Roots Of Karmas..."

                              Truly Divine Soul (Satdeva Tattva)


SHRIMADJI said...


'Three fundamental reals we should necessarily know. 


As long as there is ignorance about them, soul's benefit cannot be secured. 


These three fundamental reals are 


True divine Person, 


True divine Religion and 


True divine Teacher or Preceptor. 


I tell you about the first real namely the True divine person.


A True divine person (Satdeva) is 


one who has achieved absolute knowledge and absolute perception, 


one who has burnt the heap of his all good and bad Karmas by highest penance and steadfast meditation; 


one who has achieved Shukla Dhyan or pure meditation shining more bright than the white moon and white conch. 


One though he be a sovereign ruler of the whole world or such a ruler's son or a prince, knowing the world as totally the cause of infinite sorrow, renounces it for a better life; 


one who destroys three kinds of torments or tortures to the soul namely 


Aadhi =(Mental calamities) 


Vyadhi =(Physical diseases) and 


Upadhi (Worldly troubles) with the help of absolute compassion, peace, forgiveness, non-attachment and spiritual soul power; 


one who moves in his self - pure nature burning four principle Karmas as obstructing pure knowledge, clear vision or perception or insight and noble character and burns other hindrances to highly spiritual development; 


one who burns all the roots of Karmas, 


one who pursues noble life till some of his past Karmas have been either mallowed down or burnt completely and who abandons all Karmas springing from infatuation or false attraction and 


who avoids sleep and keeps himself constantly engaged in burning the roots of all his Karmas, 


one who preaches with his purified speech like a natural flow of rain water to other worldly heated persons for securing them highest peace with a total spirit of non - attachment, 


one in whom one cannot find even in dream the least element about worldly enjoyment of sense life; 


one who does not start advising others about self realization till he has achieved absolute Knowledge, this means that he keeps mum till his own real aim is fulfilled. 


He is free from five kinds of obstructions, laughter, affection, hatred or aversion, fear, disliking, sorrow, misunderstanding (Mithyatva), ignorance, non-remonstrance (Apratyakhyan), attachment, avarice, sleep and sex-desire. 


In short he is free from all eighteen kinds of vices, and he is poised in his self nature enjoying infinite truth, consciousness and bliss and in him very elevating twelve virtuous qualities shine forth; 


he is one for whom, birth, death and worldly life have totally vanished. 


One who possesses all above described qualities, is recognised by Bhagawan Mahavir as a truly divine person. 


Since such a person has realized his pure self-free from all faults or shortcomings, he is called the most venerable Lord. 


A person who still has one of the eighteen vices does not become a true Divine person. 


This highest truth can still be further understood by excellent aphorisms preached by Bhagawan Mahavir."


Shrimad Rajchandra  (Mokshmala Lesson 8.) 

"HE Can Put Us In His True Religious Boat..."

                Truly Religious Teacher -- Part II (Sadguru Tattva Part II)


Father - O son! Teachers are of three kinds - 


(1) Teacher - wood type 


(2) Teacher - paper type 


(3) Teacher - stone type. 


Of these three kinds, the first wood type teachers are the best ones, as they only help us to cross the ocean of worldly life quite successfully. 


Just as a piece of wood swims in the ocean and also helps one who sits on it to cross the ocean water successfully.


The Second paper type teachers are of ordinary type. 


They are moderate between the first and the third types mentioned above. 


Paper type teachers cannot successfully cross the ocean of worldly life nor can they help others depending on them. 


They can only show the way and thereby they can help the pupil to acquire some good meritorious deeds.


The third type of teachers namely stone type are such that they drown in the ocean along with those taking their help. 


The first type namely wood type teachers are available only in the administration of the world by Jineshwar Bhagawan. 


The second and third types of teachers are working for increase in the coverings of Karmas which keep the soul away from knowing its real good. 


We all need the best of things and such things can be available in properly the best places. 


If we select a best religious teacher he can put us in his true religious boat and along with him we also can successfully swim the ocean of worldly life. 


We cannot understand without the help of a best religious teacher, fine philosophical distinctions, fine distinctions of different selves, clear understanding of Loka Lok = this world and many other worlds and the nature of this worldly life with all its intricacies. 


Hearing this you may be prompted to ask me as to what are the specific characteristics of such a wood type teacher?


Then I tell you the same: - 


The wood type teacher will well know the precept given by Jineshwar Bhagawan; 


and he would follow it in his behavior fully well; and he would also advise others to follow it; 


he would have completely renounced riches and sexual life, 


he would live on innocent food and water; 


he would suffer patiently twenty-two types of torments; 


he would be full of forgiveness or sympathy or compassion; 


he would control his desires and he would keep away from all actions arising from desires and he would be thoroughly self-controlled and may be a master of all his sense powers; 


he might always be engrossed in the knowledge of all fundamental reals; 


he might be maintaining his bodily life purely for religious purposes; 


he will never be shy or coward in scrupulously following the religious path prescribed by Nirgrantha Bhagawan Mahavir, 


he would never touch or take even a blade of grass not given to him; 


he must have abandoned all sorts of dinners during night; 


he would be equanimous in his behavior and he would preach truth without any feeling of attachment. 


In short such are the merits of a wood-type religious Teacher. 


O Son! You can find in Jain Religious Scriptures the details of a true teacher's character and his knowledge acquisitions quite properly and with due considerations. 


As you grow thinking more about this in future, I shall gradually teach you further truths.


Son - O Father! You have told me in brief very useful and about beneficial truths. 


I shall always think and reflect more and more about them. 


Shrimad Rajchandra  (Mokshmala Lesson 11.) 

A Good Religious Teacher Shines Like a Priceless Jewel..."

                  Truly Religious Teacher -- Part I (Sadguru Tattva Part I)


Shrimadji explained with a beautiful example....


Father - -  Son! Who is your teacher in your school?


Son - - Father! My teacher is a very learned Brahmin and a man of right understanding.


Father - - How are his speech and character?


Son - - He speaks very sweet words; he is never calling anybody without giving him due honour and respect. 


He is never inconsiderate. 


He is very deep in his thinking. 


His words are felt by us as soft and fine as flowers. 


He never insults anybody and he teaches us good lessons with proper patience and right understanding.


Father - - Please let me know why do you go to him?


Son - - Father! Why do you ask this question to me? 


I know you are sending me to learn skill from him so that I may be wise in my worldly life, that I may learn proper method of good behavior to make my life successful and fruitful, that I may learn from him lessons of good moral conduct.


Father - - Suppose your teacher was of bad character or wrong behavior?


Son- - O! Then it would be quite wrong and harmful to me. 


I would have learnt his bad character and also would have learnt to use bad language in behavior with others. 


Who then would teach us good conduct for leading a moral life?


Father - - O Son! From this I can teach you a best lesson. 


As for worldly life good moral conduct should necessarily be learnt, so to know right religion and proper religious discipline is necessary for preparing essential requisite for a better future birth. 


Just as lessons of good moral life can only be given or taught by a good moral teacher, so lessons of good religious life can be taught by the best preceptor or religious teacher. 


Naturally there is much difference between a good moral teacher and a good religious teacher. 


A good moral teacher is only a prismatic piece; a good religious teacher shines like a priceless jewel.


Son - - O my protector (Shirachhatra)! What you say is quite correct. 


There is a perfect need for a teacher of right religion. 


You have many a time told me about many unending miseries of this world and to get over all these miseries of worldly life, only right religion can be most helpful. 


Then please let me know by what kind of a teacher we can be initiated into right religious life? 


Shrimad Rajchandra  (Mokshmala Lesson 10)

"Liberation Cannot Be Secured In Any Other Living Body..."

                                   Human Body (Manava Deha)  


Shrimadji said..."You might have heard that learned persons say that our human body is the best of all other living bodies, but you may not be knowing the reason for their saying so and so I tell it to you.


This worldly life is replete with miseries and so the enlightened persons plan to overcome it. 


Realizing liberation, they enjoy eternal happiness and such liberation cannot be secured in any other living body. 


Neither in divine state nor in other animal birth nor in hell can one get soul liberation. 


It is possible only in human birth and so human body is regarded as best of all living bodies.


Then you would ask why do all human beings not obtain liberation? 


And here is my reply. 


Those who understand humanity in real sense get over the miseries of worldly life. 


Men in whom discriminative intelligence has dawned are really called human by learned persons. 


It is with the help of this discriminative intelligence men distinguish between truth and untruth, adopt truthful religion, recognize highest truth and observe noble good conduct as a result of which they secure incomparable liberation. 


Learned persons do not call a man by the appearance of his human form but call him so, only when they find discriminative intelligence in him. 


We need not say that one who possesses two hands, two legs, two eyes, two ears, one mouth, two lips and one nose is a human being. 


If that is so, then even a monkey possessing all these parts of its body in common with those of human body, can also be called a human being. 


Besides a monkey in addition possesses a long tail also. 


Then should we call a monkey a superman? 


No, one who understands humanity can only be called a man or a human being.


Learned persons say that birth in human body is very rare to achieve; it is possible only as a result of performance of many meritorious deeds by a soul. 


So when we get human birth we should swiftly use it for benefiting our soul. 


Even small children like Ayamantkumar, Gajasukumar obtained liberation by right understanding of humanity. 


This additional power that man possesses, helps him even to control animals such as intoxicated elephants. 


If by the same power they can control the elephant in the form of their mind, what an immense benefit they can secure?


In no other living body completely right discriminative power can grow or manifest and so in such other births one cannot enter the royal road of liberation. 


Therefore it is necessary to make full use of our human birth to secure liberation or self-realization. 


Some foolish people waste this rarely obtained human birth in bad conduct, ignorance, sense-life and in intoxications and prides of many kinds and lose their life in vain and as a result they lose the invaluable opportunity (precious jewel) to work for the real benefit of their soul. 


Such persons are in name human but really monkeys.


We are unable to know for certain the exact moment of our death. 


Therefore one should quickly pay attention to a good religious life by all possible means..." Shrimad Rajchandraji  (Mokshmala Lesson 4) 

"It Is By One's Own Actions That One Has To Wander In The Worldly Life..."

                         Miracles of Actions (Karma Na Chamatkara)


Shrimadji said...


"I am telling you some of the common anomalies and different states in human life on which if you reflect, your faith in the existence of future births or rebirth will well develop.


One person sleeps on a beautiful cot having a flowerbed on it while the other does not get even a tattered quilt as his bed. 


One keeps himself always satisfied with various dainty dinners while the other cannot get for his dinner even a piece of bread. 


One enjoys unlimited wealth, the other begs for a penny from door to door. 


One by his sweet sayings attracts the minds of many hearers, the other moves like a dumb. 


One moves about dressed in beautiful clothes with ornaments on his body, the other does not even get a torn cloth to cover himself from extreme cold in winter. 


One person is a sick man while the other person is very strong bodied and healthy. 


One is very intelligent while the other is a mere dull. 


One has beautiful attractive eyes while the other is quite blind. 


One is lame and the other is short of legs. 


One is enjoying good fame and the other suffers from defamation. 


One commands lakhs of people and servants while the other suffers insults from all in his contact. 


Seeing one person we feel joyous, seeing another person we feel a vomiting sensation. 


One has all his senses in good order while the other has lost some of them. 


One has no idea of poverty of poor people while other has no end of his own sufferings.


One died while being conceived, one died soon after birth, one was born dead, one dies at a ripe age of hundred years.


"No two persons have exactly identical faces. 


Differences of language and living conditions are observed in the world. 


A fool as a king on a royal throne is praised and saluted by all, and powerfully learned men suffer strokes of misfortune.


Thus you see anomalies of various kinds in whole world. 


Have you ever thought about these anomalies? 


I have described yet if you have ever thought about them, please tell what should be the reason behind all such anomalies? 


It is only due to good or bad actions of the soul or self.


It is by one's own actions that one has to wander in the worldly life at large. 


One not believing in rebirths, cannot explain the reasons of these anomalies. 


Again how can such a person even think that there is no rebirth? 


If he thinks this way, he will also have to agree with our view i.e. belief in births and rebirths."


Shrimad Rajchandra (Mokshmala lesson 3)

"He Would Sit Peacefully Still As a Statue.."

 "RAICHAND(Shrimadji) was a typical child. While most toddlers are fidgety, He would sit peacefully still as a statue, for an hour or more, when He accompanied his mum to her friends. 

Once when asked to chop some vegetables He had tears in his eyes, not because He was being deprived from playing outside, but because He saw the life-force even in vegetation. 


Thus He exhibited sensitivity and mindful awareness even as a child. 

His spiritual leaning was accompanied by a great appeal for bhakti, accompanying His dad to bhajan sessions and He had even bound a Kanthi, a symbol of the devotion to Lord Krishna. 


Initially He was put off by the ‘atheism’ of Jain teachings but gradually as He came into contact with Jain scriptures such as the works of Kund Kund Acharya and the Pratikraman Sutra, which details analysis of compassion towards all life and the avoidance of violence, His affection for Jain teachings grew.

When He was only seven, an elder and fond friend, Amichandbhai, died of a snake bite. Being inquisitive, Raichand (Shrimadji) inquired into the death and was told that the ‘life’ had passed out of Amichandbhai, and that, as he would no longer speak or do anything, he would be cremated. 


The 7-year-old clambered up a tree near the cremation ground and watched the proceedings. 


As He pondered deeply about what He saw, and wondered why someone would cruelly burn a man, suddenly He felt as though a veil had been removed. 


It is at this point He experienced ‘Jati Smaran Gnaan’ i.e. knowledge of past lives. 


Re-incarnation had now become a direct experience for Him! 

Though He started school late at the age of seven, He mastered the preliminaries of Calculation in a month. 


Commanding great respect from fellow students and teachers, He was even allowed to conduct a class under the teacher’s supervision. 


He used His photographic memory extensively, remembering the lessons at one reading. Even at this early age He showed great determination and commitment, completing the curriculum of seven standards in just two years. 

He started his poet’s career early at the age of eight, writing about a thousand stanzas in the first year and composed the classics ‘Ramayana’ and ‘Mahabharat’ in verse when He was only nine. 


Already contributing articles to Newspapers and Magazines from the age of eight, He wrote 300 stanzas on ‘A Watch’ at twelve. Being the recipient of numerous prizes for writing essays and poetry, He was well regarded as a great poet and scholar. One of His very early poems of a patriotic nature is sung in schools in Gujarat even today. 

Having demonstrated a clear comprehension of his goal in life Shrimadji’s formal education ended at age of twelve when He started attending his father’s shop..."

" The Absolute Secret Lying Hidden In The Hearts Of Fully Realized Souls..."

Bombay Kartika Sud 14, Vikram Samvat 1947

...From time infinity there has persisted a delusion of self to self. This is an unutterable astonishing point for thinking . There where mind fails to reach, how is it possible for words to reach?

Constantly practice the course-study of evenness of mind (Udaseenta).

Constantly remain absorbed in devotion of a Sat-Purusha (Divine Personage), the wise realized self.

Constantly be ever remembering the divine lives of spiritually great souls.

Constantly ponder over the supernatural characteristic qualities of high spiritual souls.

Constantly observe with love of heart the peaceful and serene profiles of the seers of Self.

Constantly meditate ever and again on amazing secrets (as revealed) in each action of their mind, speech and body.

Constantly accept without reserve all as accepted by them.

This is, indeed, the absolute secret lying hidden in the hearts of fully realized souls, worthy to be accepted, believed, pondered over, and absorbed in , every moment and each instant for obtaining liberation.

And verily, this is the sacred great path for realizing the secret of all scriptures, understanding the heart of all saints and for reaching to the supreme abode of the absolute. 

And the essential root-cause for that all is the blessed association with any Sat-Purusha, wise personage and an unflinching faith thereof.

For attaining emancipation from bondage that alone has to be comprehended and that alone has to be achieved. There is no escape therefrom. So do it either today or tomorrow, after a hundred thousand years if you so choose or even later or earlier than that, in case you are so inclined.

In each invisible minutest part of Divine consciousness, that Path alone is acceptable to me...

Raichand's respects.
(Letter No. 172)