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Meditating on the Teachings
Munishree Chandraprabh Sagarjl was undergoing a transformation. In the process, he made a wonderful discovery. He saw that all of the negatives in his mind and emotions were merely energies turned round in the wrong direction. By stopping and recognizing whatever condition he was in without running away from it, he found he could enact a change of direction. He could transmute any vibration into a positive energy. In this way, he melted, refined, transcended, or re-moved stumbling blocks in his consciousness. He now knew that the course of his life and growth was in his own hands. He gladly took this responsibility. It was none other than ex-periencing for himself the great hope inherent in Bhagwan Mahavir's teaching — that man is a living conscious energy and that this energy has the power to change anything in the material world.
The young muni's relationship to the teachings he received, read, or heard was as internal as his relationship with his Master. All served as catalysts for his growth. He tested each truth on himself; nothing was accepted blindly. It was a process of absorption. Just as he was internalizing the beautiful presence of his teacher into his consciousness, so he soaked himself in the teachings, stanzas, poems, and stories of those prophets, seers, masters, and saints who had conquered their weaknesses and shared their insights with mankind.
He read from the Buddhist, Hindu, Yogic, Parsee, Christian, Jewish, and Islamic traditions as well. Some he could read in the original Sanskrit, Prakrit, Hindi, Kannad and English.
When a stanza rang true in his heart, he often felt it releasing something he had been holding inside. Anger fell away when he bathed his consciousness in the stanza of forgiveness. Like the hull of a flowerbud, his fear began to drop as he opened his heart to love and lived the teachings of ahimsa. Everything he learned and everyone he met helped him thin out the shell of the ego until he would become one with his own soft reality.
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