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mediation and developed his own result-oriented technique called Atmadhyan. It is based on the Acharang Sutra. Millions of people have benefited from his method of meditation. He trained several meditation instructors who travel across the country and around the globe to organize camps to give practical training of meditation to interested people and enable them to bring about a positive change in their lives. In the meditation camps, Acharyashri inspires people to clean the five sheaths of bodies of our being: physical body, aural body, mind body, intellectual body and bliss body. His meditation study is divided into four parts:
Basic Shibir l: 3 hours for 3 days with prayer, faith, help, yogasana, some methods of dhyan where one learns to get a glimpse of self. Advance II: 4 days with complete silence. Special pratikraman, kayotsarg and Mangal Maitry is used for the experiment. Advance III: This is a 7 day practice, where one learns to go from Bhed to Abhed. Self meditation teaching workshop: Where
one learns how to teach others. Acharyashri is of the opinion that management is about shifting the goal of an industry from being profit oriented to service oriented industry. Companies and entrepreneurs undergoing mediation training under Acharyashri's guidance have found increased cooperation and harmony
among their employees. His books like Dhyan Ek Divya Sadhana, Nadi Nav Sanjog, The Jain Tradition, and The Jain Pathway to Liberation have benefitted thousands of people. Simple Messages from Acharyaji: Detachment, Austerity, Enlightenment and Meditation have been the four pillars of his pious life. His message to all of us is as follows:
Sadhana-Atmadhyan -Self meditate Seva- Help Others Shiksha-Get Knowledge Who am I? = KOHAM and I am that Soul = SOHAM. This is the Truth. Sthanak Vasi = People Living in their Soul
-Thanag Sutra Acharya Shiv Muniji asks us to, "Use body as a vehicle to go towards the soul. Meditation is carried by the body. Soul only experiences it as knowledge" - Gnata Drashta Bhav Namaskar brings humility (Vinaya) and reduces ego in the words of Suvrat Muniji: "The holy vibrations that surround Shiv Muni and his meditation powers come directly from the blessings of Tirthankar Simandhar Swami". Web site.www.jainachaya.com E-mail: shivachryaji@jainachrya.com
Acharya Raghavji Swami
The time is 11.30 am in a small town of Kutch Andelivery captures the audience's heart and mind.
The lecture is highly interactive, where the monk elderly Jain monk is spotted walking alone on the
fields questions to his audience, or answers streets with gochari (food collected by sadhu)
questions raised from the audience. The monk vessels in his hand, head bent little downwards
even had a simple question for a small child though focused on the streets - sometimes
sitting close to him. As the end of the vyakhayan stopping to bless people who are bowing to him,
(lecture), the great soul has touched every soul in sometimes smiling at kids playing on the street,
the audience. unperturbed by dogs barking, the saint finally reaches his sthanak., The sthanak is fully packed
In the above 3-hour snapshot here, we have tried with devotees now at 1.55pm. Two saints are
to visualize a picture of Pujya Acharya Raghavji sitting on top of a small pedestal. A small group of
Swami. Pujya-saheb (as his devotees called him) visitors visiting from Mumbai moves to the front
who humbly requested others not to take his and are taking with the saints holding a
photographs. While, we do not have a portrait of handkerchief in front of their mouth. It is now
Pujya-saheb's physical body, we do have some exactly 2.00pm, the elderly sadhu after reciting
glimpses from a life-long portrait of a great soul. In the Navakar mantra starts his vyakhyan talking
the above paragraph, we have attempted to about the soul. His clarity of thought and superb
present some of his unique attributes. We began For Private & Personal use only
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