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LOOKING UP TO THE TEACHER
A is for Ahimsa
- to be non-violent and more
reverent for all life.
B is for Better to Best
– learning how to live better to
become the best that I can be
H
is for Healing
– how all things can be healed
with, and through, the light of inner awareness.
A
is for Adoration
– for life
Gurudev.
and
for
you,
N is for Not
as you have shared what to strive for in life, I have also seen what not to strive for!
U is for Unlimitedness – what' we experience when
we truly experience who we really are.
I thank you for all of these gifts. What I would like to give to you on your birthday is my love and commitment to you as my teacher in helping you to spread the message of ahimsa (non-violence) to all those I meet and work with everyday".
Yashoda Jordon of New York has this to say:
“A single negative thought kills all positiveness. Who else would remind us but the eminent teacher of Jainism. All words coming from Gurudev are like pearls and have helped me immensely in sorting out the why, where, who, what. Cutting through a densely barrage of ideas and problems with a laser-like beam in meditation explains the way how I have become the woman as a
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