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THE WAVE OF BLISS
Jain philosophy has served to satisfy the hunger for spiritual growth 'through inner light and seeking out the inner world'. Contact with Jain teaching has made some Americans and Europeans, in their own words 'calm, meditative, truthful, sincere, refreshingly cheerful, full of positive vibrations and yet kept dynamic balance between contemplation and action.
Meditation has given to them a feeling of 'Spiritual prosperity'. It is a discovery of inner strength and power to face the challenges and temptations of the material bondages. Jain concept has sunk in deep in their reasoning, emotions, daily existence and yearnings. It has brought them peace of mind and durable solace.
The noted Czechoslovak painter and scholar Jaromir Skrivanek visited Jain pilgrimage centres in India many times since 1970 and organised in many countries exhibitions of photographs taken of major Jain temples. He found from his own experience that Jain way of living is not only philosophical, but that it is a true religion in its purest form that could not be found anywhere else. He found in Jain philosophy 'an all-embracing light of love'.
The famous T.V. actress Ms Betty Buckley stated during her visit to Nairobi (Kenya) in September 1981, when she was interviewed, that since she became a meditator in 1976, she experienced a deeper sense of peace and has become a completely new person enriched by the philosophy of reverence for all life.
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