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THE WAVE OF BLISS
the album called 'Ray of Light', it was synchronotic, as if it was meant to be It seems that this mantra has its own power, and I am just a vehicle to express it in a way it has never been expressed before. I have never felt so complete in singing before."
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Trupti Otto narrated to Gurudev and me at Gurudev's residence in Bombay her 'beautiful' experience when she was asked to sing and chant Chattari Mangalam and everyone joined her at Palitana. She felt 'connected' to inner peace and deep delight like one she had never experienced before. She misses this back home in Berlin: "here the growing is different, more coming with the demands of the real world which is so different in dynamics from the atmosphere of meditation and coolcollected thoughts leading to the attainment of spiritual energy."
Reinhold Braun from Germany writes: "I have been five times to India and travelled to all holy mounts of the Jains. I went to the top of Girnar, Shatrunjaya, Abu and to the three hills of Taranga in Gujarat and Rajasthan. I climbed to the top of mount Parshvanath in Bihar, and I have orders to my feet to bring me to Gommata in Shravanabelgola. That I saw a lot of other important holy temples of the Jains you may imagine! I also have friends. I know Acharya Paramasagar and I visited Acharya Kalyan Sogarji in the new Simandhara-temple of Mehsana. And I know a lot of monks, now I can hope to see you one day and this would be a big enjoyment for me. The world needs Ahimsa, that is my conviction and my belief."
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I was invited to preside over a public function held on December 4, 1991 at Patkar Hall in Bombay to welcome the 1991 India pilgrimage group by 25 American, German,