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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
We extend our deep appreciation to those who have given us guidance in the preparatory phases of this book — to Pujya Shri Chitrabhanu for helping us select and translate many of the Jain stanzas, to the venerable Khenpo Konchog Gyaltsen for offering us his translation of the dedication prayer, to Ruth Denison, Vipassana master, for providing us several of the Buddhist stanzas, and to Shri Swami Chidananda for his repertoire of favorite Hindu prayers.
Our appreciation to nādayogi and world-renowned sitarist Acharya Roop Verma, who has brought the stanzas to life by chanting them onto an audio cassette to help the reader learn to pronounce them and meditate on their vibrational essence. Thanks also to Roop's wife, Tracy, who plays tamboura while Roop chants and plays harmonium.
We are grateful to Shri Brahmananda Sarasvati, Shri Krishna, Bharata Mata and Radha of the International Schools of East-West Unity at Ananda Ashram for making it possible to put these stanzas into book form.
A special word of thanks to artist and friend, Lilly Langotsky, for designing and illustrating our book cover.
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