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One of the spiritual leaders of India's four million Jains, Gurudev Shree Chitrabhanu is the first Jain master to come to the United States.
He arrived in America in 1971, when he accepted the invitation of the Temple of Understanding to address the Spiritual Summit Conference held at Harvard Divinity School. Since then, he has lectured throughout the East Coast at universities and preparatory schools and, in 1974, was the keynote speaker at the Quaker Conference on World Peace at Cornell University. He has worked closely with the World Fellowship of Religions, the United Nations, and other globally minded organizations. Presently, Gurudev Chitrabhanu is spiritual adviser to the Jain Meditation International Center in New York and to other meditation centers in the United States, Brazil, and India.
Gurudev's philosophy is that of reverence for all life. His lectures aim at kindling awareness of the Self within each of us. He teaches meditation as an integral part of daily living, not as an escape from reality, but as a means to a richer, more satisfying life.
A teacher of universal scope, Gurudev Chitrabhanu has said, “I do not want to teach people their duties or any doctrine of religion. I want to arouse them from their complacencies, to stir their hearts, to vivify their imagination, to bring them from their little selves to the Higher, of which they are capable."
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