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THE DYNAMICS OF MEDITATION
the highest and best in themselves through meditation.
After becoming one of the spiritual leaders of India's five million Jains, Gurudev founded the Divine Knowledge Society in Bombay and other social welfare and emergency relief organizations which work among the poor and distribute food, education, clothing, and medicine. He accepted invitations from the Temple of Understanding to address the first two Spiritual Summit Conferences in Geneva in 1970, and at Harvard Divinity School in 1971. By his decision to attend these conferences, Gurudev transcended the 2,500 year old tradition prohibiting travel by vehicle and became the first Jain monk to travel outside of India. Gurudev subsequently made lecture tours in Europe and Africa and later accepted many invitations to teach in the United States. In the United States he has worked closely with the Temple of Understanding and has lectured at the United Nations, Princeton, Sarah Lawrence, Cornell, the State University of New York, and many other institutions of learning and human development. He is closely associated with individuals and students involved in yoga, psychiatry, philosophy, government, business and the arts. At present, he is spiritual advisor to the Jain Meditation International Center in New York City and sixty-one centers in North America as well as in London, Zurick, Kobe (Japan), Hongkong, Singapore and Germany.
