Wave of Bliss

SR No.: 006988
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: N P Jain
Publisher: Jain Meditation International Centre
Total Pages: 106
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 24 MB

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THE PRACTICE OF RELIGION
guidance of Gurudev Chitrabhanu. When I met them in New Delhi towards the end of their tour, I could see the feeling of ecstasy and discovery of joy within bubbling forth in their talk. It was a unique experience for them and they wanted to do it again in future. Their tensions had disappeared. They looked relaxed and at peace with the world all those leading bankers, industrialists, professors, traders and other men and women of the mundane world. The pilgrimage had raised their soul power so high as to take the mundane in its stride and not get trapped into it.
And consider the deep pleasure they got chanting Namokar Mantra at the mountain tops in temples and their environs. Rock singer Rosita Rashmi writes:
"There is a lot of love and a lot of joy that has been put into this and a lot of gratefulness at being able to sing and record a song that is so ancient, so powerful and I believed the whole world should hear it. I have never felt so complete in singing before."
In another letter she writes, "In Mt. Palitana, when we were in the temple, when we finally climbed the mountain and went into the temple you asked me to sing Om Namo Arihantanam, and you wanted us to sing it for everybody. My first reaction was strange because I did not want to dishonour or sing it incorrectly. But I did hear it differently in my own mind, heard the mantras played differently. When I did sing it, and everybody joined in and we all sang it together, I actually heard the sounds that you will hear when you listen to the tape '....'. I played the mantras on my guitar to a musician. He was overwhelmed by it, and told me he heard definite sounds in his mind. They were the same sounds I had heard in my mind in India. So when we came together to prepare
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