Wave of Bliss

Author(s): N P Jain
Publisher: Jain Meditation International Centre

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CHAPTER I
THE WAVE OF BLISS
Jainism has made its impact on Americans and others in the Western World as a deeply compassionate and gentle philosophy which inspires reverence for life encompassing all living beings, and a convincing feeling of 'live and help let live'.
It comes out vividly in letters addressed to Gurudev Chitrabhanu from the young and the old mostly from USA and also from Canada, Germany, UK, Czechoslovakia and elsewhere. The letters make fascinating reading because they bear the imprint of transparent sincerity and expression of heart-felt experience of joy, confidence, serenity and reduced tensions.
Jain Meditation has impressed as a very dynamic and non-dogmatic form of spiritual discipline and development which is at once rational and non-mystic. It is a philosophy projecting a balanced and a broader view of life: Indeed it offers a way of life which is simple and direct and helps the lost and the confused to get connected again' to stable peace of mind and more contended soulsatisfying living.
In his discourses at Jain Meditation Centres, Universities and International Conferences, Gurudev Chitrabhanu emphasised that Jain philosophy is based essentially on