Shantidoot Amrender Muniji

Author(s): Padmini Atal
Publisher: Universal Ahimsa Foundation

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response to his visionary Ahinsa University (which became affiliated with the United Nations Peace University in Costa Rica in 1993) and the World Movement of Nonviolence for Peace and Environment.
In September 1993, Sushil Kumar Ji addressed the Parliament of the World's Religions in Chicago. He addressed the need to embrace non violence for all living beings.
Shri Sushil Kumar Ji was influential in getting a Jain studies department opened at the prestigious Columbia University in the USA.
His work continued virtually till he took his last breath. He was a fountain of spiritual energies. There is hardly a nation that has not been touched by his efforts. However his teaching was imparted on a personal basis - to the thousands of people for whom he was always available at all hours. He did not deliver sermons. He reached out to the inner-self, even when lecturing to very large audiences. His message was very simple - it was the message of Lord Mahavir, who taught: Remain still, maintain silence, enter into a state of meditation and dissolve yourself. It was this practice which Guruji said would lead one into the natural and unconditioned state of the Self in which one would identify with all living beings and with the environment and with all matter.
He left us on 22nd April 1994 in Delhi. Tributes poured in from leaders in India and all over the world as well. The President of India - Dr Shankar Dayal Sharma, Prime Minister of India - Shri PV Narasimha Rao, the United Nations , UNICEF, and the Jain Center of America all wrote expressing their sorrow at his demise.
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