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A PIONEER SHOWS THE WAY
personal problems or problems in relation to others in the family or society. In a significant manner he became their friend, a real Guru whom they could look upto, confide their deficiencies, failings, problems, diffidence and gain new social energy and spirit of self-confidence, ability, courage and determination.
There has been a remarkably reciprocal continuity of contacts and interactions and ever strengthening feeling of mutual confidence and faith. The students are from different walks of life — businessmen, industrialists, professors, psychologists, yoga experts, philosophers, scholars, artists, media persons, social workers, doctors, writers and poets.
The contact and interaction with foreigners is not in any isolated manners. It has coincided with the work among Jain community of Indian origin – be it in Nairobi, London, New York, Japan, Geneva, Germany, Singapore, Hongkong, Los Angeles or anywhere. A significant local and continuing contact has thus developed between Jains of Indian origin settled abroad and the foreigners now introduced to Jain philosophy. Contacts have taken shape not confined to the level of individuals only or groups of individuals in different places, but also at institutional levels with well established centres of philosophy, major Universities, Yoga and Meditation Institutions and Church Leaders.
With his annual visits to Europe and Africa, Gurudev Chitrabhanu has renewed the message of Jain philosophy and religion to an increasing number of people. He has infused his teachings with his experience of almost 28 years as a Jain Monk and since late sixties and early seventees for two decades as an itinerant traveller, world citizen and a Jain Master. His discourses focus on the core
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