Prabuddha Jivan 2016 10

SR No.: 526099
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Sejal Shah
Publisher: Mumbai Jain Yuvak Sangh
Publication Year: 2016
Total Pages: 44
Language: Gujarati
Classification: Magazine, India_Prabuddha Jivan, & India
File Size: 2 MB

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પૃષ્ઠ ૪૦ % પ્રબુદ્ધ જીવન : ગાંધીજી : ગઈકાલ-આજ-આવતીકાલ : સદા નિરંતર ૬ ઓક્ટોબર ૨૦૧૬
ને આવતીકાલ
THE SECRER'S DIARY
CELEBRATING THE UNMOVED MOVER
જીવન : ગાંધીજીઃ ગઈકાલ-જ-આવતીકાલ ઃ સદા નિરંતર પ્રબુદ્ધ જીવન : ગાંધીજી : ગઈકાલ-જ-વતીકાલે સદા નિરંતર # પ્રબુદ્ધ જીવન ગાંધીજીઃ ગઈકાલ-જ-ઓવતીકાલ : સદા નિરંતર પ્રબુદ્ધ જીવન : ૬
Bhavya, Bhavya, Bhavya... The atmosphere Love that automatically makes you think with that's created when you celebrate the presence of 'vivek' which otherwise was not your strongest virtue. & a BelovedSpiritual Master.
Love that makes intense awareness and vigilance' To be a part of a lifetime when we are able to your natural state. celebrate a soul closest to the Gods, closest to the Love that keeps you drenched days, weeks, purest and to witness 'collective love, 'collective months after the showers have ceased. bhaav' of thousands of bhakt's, seekers, disciples Love that make impossible possible, makes difficult is a wonder of the world much more than any other easy-gives you that one strong reason for life. tangible seven, eight, nine wonders.
Love that starts with a deep desire to please the 5 Event: Pujyashri Rakesh Bhai Jhaveri's beloved, desire converts into a strong thought and (Gurudev's) 50th Birth anniversary or Suvarna then a full-fledged process of action. Jayanti Utsav.
So for this moment, let us stick to this soft cotton Venue: NSCI Dome-Mumbai
bubble of love and just humanise it a bit. Most of us $ Hosts: Thousands of disciples
would have done something or many things for people What happened in those three days? Music, we love.My parents generation and before did it more Dance, Discourse, exchange of love in all its subtly perhaps, through their conduct everyday. The dimensions... Love and Samarpan in Action. new age does things through surprises and squeals
It was all beautiful, all larger than life; everyone and over the top gestures. A surprise birthday party, went beyond their own capacities and stretched a surprise ticket, decorating the room, baking a cake, themselves beyond expectations.
cooking a gourmet meal, booking a car, making a The finale was 'Adhbhut Astitva' which felt like card etc etc etc - fulfilling a desire or creating a desire being a reflection of Devlok with lots of apsaras- and it is all wonderful.
The concept, the execution, the music, the Now doing something for someone who has No è performance, the visualization, the lyrics... all were desire of any kind of this world and yet his Heart can Ah and Waah!!
rejoice and feel far more sustainable gratitude and The presence of Saints and their wishes and humility than us mortals. blessings gave goose bumps and very heart And this result also in an efficiency, the magical touching.
ness and the collective energy of all of us celebrating, Gurudev Himself was his same gentlest this kind of love that reaches epic proportions. & humblest self, meeting as many people as he could, Shwetambars, Digambars, Sthankvaasis,
replying, loving. Speaking on Shraddha, Sanyam deravaasis, grahasth's or sanyasi's will all agree that and Seva (Right faith, right discipline or conduct and when a Tirthankar is born or attains Nirvan, the kind right action / service.)
of celebration that takes place cannot be compared Over 10,000 people on each single day and it to anything on earth. The sounds, the celebrations, was all in sync with absolutely minimum of glitches. the feasts, the entire cosmos rejoices and expresses Everyone was accommodated, everyone was through this very mode which the enlightened one moved, and the guests who had no idea about himself has left far far far behind. The very things Gurudev or even Jainism were floored. that do not touch him are the ones that make a The sevaks who had worked day in and day out celebration- All the panch dhaatu coming together, all were as alive, as aware, and as smiling as if it was the 'yog' coming together, synchronising coming a bright sunny morning for 24 hours..
together and more than anything that one 5 And that is what I wish to just try and capture in pulsating tattva that brings all of this together.
here - Love and what it can do. The all-complete And that is what Pujyashri Gurudev since the soft unadulterated love for that permanent Tattva. beginning of his 50th year kept on telling us
Love can make a person who "needs a minimum something in this vein.. "if you are celebrating my .. eight hour sleep' - sleep for two and feel fresh for birth, you not only will have to accept my death but $ weeks before the celebration.
celebrate it while if you see me as who I AM, Anadi 5 Love can make 'a fast food and dessert lover anant tattva then every minute will be a celebration.' 5 leave these naturally just to avoid any thing that can A nd that may sound like an irony, but what we 5
make him unwell or sick or unable to give service celebrated and our medium of celebration are all the for the event.
five senses, but what and who we are celebrating is *Future depends on what you do today.'
તે આવતીકાલ
& પ્રબુદ્ધ જીવત : ગાંધીજીઃ ગઈકાલ-જ-આવતીકાલ ઃ સદા નિરંતર # પ્રબુદ્ધ જીવત : ગાંધીજીઃ ગઈકાલે-આજ-આવતીકાલેઃ સદા નિરંતર # પ્રબુદ્ધ જીવન : ગાંધીજી : ગઈકાલ-જ-આવતીકાલ સદા નિરંતર # પ્રબુદ્ધ જીવન :8
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