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Managing Life with Meditation
Summer 2010
JMIC Newsletter 1991
Gurudev Shree Chitrabhanu, as a Jain Master, encourages devotees "...to become strong enough in body, mind and soul to take charge of one's own spiritual journey. A teacher must never foster dependence in his disciples." His teachings help us to attain that state of consciousness in which we can experience harmony with ourselves and with the Universe. He comes to us as an exemplar and enabler of that harmony - a man whose presence itself is an affirmation of joy, oneness with all life, brotherhood, creativity, love, wisdom, action, and light.
Catherine Florida, The Lighthouse Center
Whitmore Lake, Michigan
Nowadays man is lost. Man does not know what he is doing. He is walking in sleep; he is a sleep walker. I've seen it. You see it with educated people. You see it in people with prosperity. But hardly do you see how poor they are inside; how frightened they are; how angered they are; how confused they are; and we see the results in the callousness in the world. It is not only in India; it is all over the whole world. And when man is lost, he becomes chaotic or paranoid or psychotic and he does not know what he is doing. He can do any violence; he can do sabotage; he can cheat; he can do anything. And nowadays you will see that such a person can even become a minister of a cabinet. This is the world in which we are living, and it is such people who are guiding us. Some are in the name of gurus; some are in the name of religious heads; some are in politics. The people who are in a position to be a beacon to us, a guidance to us, an inspiration to us, are themselves lost. They themselves are groping in darkness; darkness of greed, darkness of popularity, darkness of power, darkness of caste, creed, and religious fanatic ideas. When these leaders speak from their platform, we are guided and led by them and so this is a very trying time through which man is going.
70-Journey to Enlightenment - Volume Two
