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A PIONEER SHOWS THE WAY
Writes Mamata Yagalla, an English teacher: "His life is an open book for all to see. He has shown the capacity to sacrifice; he has shown the patience to withstand, uninformed and biased criticism; he has shown the willingness and open heartedness to the tolerant and loving to all including his critics. His charisma is not born of glamour, but of the power of pure love and insight into the human heart. He has come on the world stage as a selfless world server inspiring others to live better and more fulfilling lives."
What is somewhat unique about Chitrabhanu's method of transmitting message with conviction is a kind of spiritual radiation effect on his followers. And it is achieved alongwith the arousing of a scientific approach through yoga, meditation, concentration and control over inner self. He does not seek to plant any ideology or promise any miracles in his teachings but lets the belief grow inside your inner self as a product of your own 'divine experience."
The 'divine experience is not merely a product of acquired knowledge (gyan), but also practising any of these with deep convictions of religion through meditation, yoga, vegetarianism, actively working for prevention of cruelty to animals and other living beings, observing fasts particularly during Paryushan Parva, practising abstinence from drinking or smoking, and restraint in the matter of eating, chanting Namokar Mantra with a soul-stirring orientation, visiting Jain pilgrimage centres and ancient temples of Jain worship in India and so on.
Gurudev does it with seemingly utter simplicity and ease – and yet the message 'TO STAY AWAKE' penetrates deeper into the psyche of the recipient. It makes one both
