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became the essence of his spiritual name. Chandraprabh Sāgarji means ---Ocean of the Beams of Moon. It was as if he became one with moon herself, emanating the vibrations of soothing and cooling peace. His was the full moon of consciousness. Gone was the pain of striving, of struggling to reach upward. Now he remained in his own state, the eternal ocean behind the transitory. He could enjoy the natural flow and ebb of the tides of living without being disturbed or thrown off balance. It was not a state of being detached from life or numb to feeling. On the contrary, he became increasingly sensitive to life; at the same time, he knew how to remain a witness to his feelings without being bound or enslaved by them.
Once Munishree had lifted the lid of sorrow and touched his reality, he came in tune with the Tirthankaras before him. He felt like them, a transmitter of the ecstasy and beauty of the inner life.
Until this moment, he had been sharing his insights with his father and teacher privately, with the villagers on the occasions when he gave talks, and with his own soul in a diary. Now he felt the overwhelming urge to embrace all of humanity. That is why he began to send his writings to be published in spiritual magazines and different newspapers. Now that he had broken out from the limitations of mind and conditioning, he felt that only the heart was his home, not four walls. From the chariot of his writings and teachings, he would help people remove the bars of sectarianism, petty thinking, and emotional distortion in which they had imprisoned themselves, and inspire them to catch a vivid glimpse of their own inner treasure.
Munishree submitted his first ecstatic utterances incognito. He did not sign his writings with his long religious title, His Holiness Gurudev Munishree Chandraprabh Sagar Mahārajji. He decided to cut it short
If experiences are to echo in the human heart, why limit that resonance by the signature of a religious title? No, let me select a pen-name instead, one which goes beyond all sect, creed, and tradition.
The name he invented was “Chitrabhanu,” meaning essence of the sun, the life force animating the sun itself, divine
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