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A non-profit educational organization Founded by Poojya Gurudev Shree Chitrabhanuji
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GURUDEV SHREE CHITRABHANU:
A Man With A Vision
At the age of 20, Gurudev Shree Chitrabhanu became a Jain mork because he longed to understand the meaning of life. During his 29 years as a monk, he observed silence to purify speech, meditated to illumine mind in peace, studied to experience the divine within and ultimately self-realization which brought a profound sense of loving compassion and reverence for all living beings.
Throughout his life, Gurudev has been revitalizing teachings handed down for more than 5,000 years, sifting out those which seem irrelevant and building upon those which are conducive to continued growth. He explains, ''Change is the law of life but out of a false sense of security, we tend to reject change."
After becoming one of the spiritual loaders of India's ten million Jains, Gurudev Founded the Divine knowledge Society which provides services, including medical assistance, food and meals to the suffering in trought areas, Financial aid to education, publication of books, and counseling in the philosophy of reverence for all life.
Gurudev was the first Jain Master to visit the West. As an authority on Eastern philosophies, he was invited as a keynote speaker on Jainism at the Second Summit Conference in Geneva in 1970. In 1971 he came to the United States at the invitation of the Harvard Divinity School and Temple of Understanding, again as a keynote speaker on Jainism, for the Third Spiritual Summit Conference. Since then, to pioneer the teaching of Ahimsa and Relativity of thinking in the West, he speaks often at The United Nations, many colleges and universities, including Yale, Princeton and Cornell. In addition to leading innumerable retreats and seminars, he is working with church groups, drug addiction centers and New Age institutions. Gurudev also works closely with global-minded organizations: He was the first to speak on Ahimsa (non-violence) at The United Nations and was Founder-president of World Fellowship of Religions in America.
Gurudev's spiritual spouse is Pramoda who has been helping him with his calling and who writes books, teaches mantras, and spreads the feeling of reverence for life through publications and classes.
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