Wave of Bliss

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

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LOOKING UP TO THE TEACHER
He is like an ice in a cooling drink. He cools your consciousness and then disappears.".
Gurudev Chitrabhanu has himself repeatedly said,
"I am not concerned with proving myself or making miracles for anybody. My teaching is to concentrate on the virtues of the people. The mission of a teacher is to lead a person to his or her own inner teaching and relieve the person from all dependency. In the word Guru, Gu means 'only darkness' and ru means 'remover'. What often happens is the disciple clings to the teacher and not to the teaching. Thereby he misses the goal.
You do not need groups to find God. Groups are busy looking for messiahs to solve all their problems. It is an illusion, weakness, an avoidance of responsibility."
One has to turn the spirit of soul and get released from the bonds of materialism. A spiritual person will be more creative, more positive, prosperous and more appreciated because he or she knows the power of spirit and can use it everywhere.
Sreven has this to say of his experience at the Jain Meditation International Centre.
'My strength has increased by watching the people who come into the centre and into Gurudev's teaching, and the miracles that start taking place in their lives. When I see the tormented faces of the people who first came here, see their eyes reflecting their inner pain, and then I watch the change which comes into their being from Gurudev's teaching, his gentle spirit, and from Jainism. My own heart at times almost bursts with the deepest of love and gratitude towards him. And I become very
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