Wave of Bliss

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

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AHIMSA
obviously, was not born out of an iota of compassion for suffering animals."
Sreven from Canada writes: "You have helped to bring the torch of light into the dark night of ignorance, where humans are indulging in all kinds of perverted sense of taste, the craving that comes from their mouths and eyes only for their unsatiable taste buds, their swallowed food accompanied by the unheard and unseen cries, agony, pain and suffering of slaughtered animals, fishes and fowl."
The spirit of non-violence is being imbibed by Americans and Europeans in the broad back-drop of humanitarianism, compassion, love and solidarity with all living beings and interdependence with Nature.
In a recent letter, scholar painter Jaromir Skrivanek of Czechoslovakia applauded the end of communism and beginnings of a freer democratic society in his country by stressing that it all came to pass in a non-violent manner. "By this peaceful revolution now called all over the world as a velvet revolution, the whole totalitarian power was demolished and paralysed."
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Sreven writes with feeling when he quotes a poem of Gurudev Chitrabhanu, which 'touched him ever so gently':
Fulfilment
The trees were dancing gaily in the breeze "Why do you dance so gaily today, O Trees?' I asked, Nodding their follage merrily, the trees replied,
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