Book Title: Journey to Enlightenment Part 01
Author(s): Chitrabhanu, Chetana Catherine Florida, Nirmala Hanke, Raksha Penni Helsene
Publisher: Create Space
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Many people have narrowed their life and placed themselves in a fold by thinking, "I am Muslim. I am Hindu. I am Jain. I am Jewish. I am Christian. They are not like me, they are all outsiders”. By belief, one has blocked and alienated oneself from mankind and living beings who are helping our existence in many ways, visibly and invisibly. Meditation helps to break the self-imposed limitations on oneself and to live liberated in a "uniting" universe.
Anyone who wants to free oneself from wrong belief, guilt, and negativity is free to choose the Jain method by saying this mantra: Savva Pava Panasano, which vibrates to liberate. Here savva means all; pava means guilt and negativity; and panasano means destroyed. All guilt and negativity of the past are destroyed. The next part of the mantra is: mangalanam cha savvesim. From that moment mangalanam benedictions and blessings start pouring on us from all directions. This is the greatest among all benedictions, all blessings In this way one goes deep into oneself. Deep into the source. One creates a fire inside and incinerates all the negativities. One accepts oneself as gold, purified of all dross.
Of the two people I mentioned before, one came up out from the mantra meditation and said with joy "I am free! Free from the burden of the load of past negativities.” What she had not been able to do in twenty years happened spontaneously in that moment. Collecting all the junk of the past, collecting all the guilt of the past, she incinerated them, cleansed herself of them, and forgave herself. She did not need to go anywhere to be forgiven, to be saved. She said "I burned the negativity and threw the ashes away, and I cam back to my clean self." But the other person said, "How can you burn all your past and your mistakes, your guilt? You can't. It is impossible.” It was true for her because she believed it to be possible. Her belief became a reality, a fact for her.
Often when we want to cling to our past, we can find arguments to support our condition. We are logical people - human beings are reasoning animals - and to make life miserable we find so many logical reasons. We pick up a book which was written by one person, who heard a second person quoting a third person, and then edited by a fourth person. We now take this as the real message and we say, “It is written! It is our original sin and it cannot be undone. We believe it. It is written that a savior is needed or else we risk damnation and will go to hell; we believe it”. But none of this is what the master said; it is what the interpreter said. A master is a person who does not insult human dignity. Do you think the master will say, “If you don't embrace me, you will go to hell.” Such an idea cannot come from any master; it comes from the egotistical interpreter. The masters help you see beauty. They say “What I can do, you also can do...and more.” They give you their shoulders to climb up on to see more than they saw. All the masters have come to make us taller not smaller. They don't want to see you shrink; they want to see you grow.
Real parents are those who expect their son or daughter to be better than they are. Parents aspire to see their children go one step farther than they went. The son or daughter draws inspiration from the parents. If a child makes mistakes, the parents do not put the child down but see it as a growing process and lack of experience. Experiencing the pain of
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