Wave of Bliss

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

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THE WAVE OF BLISS
Dick Davis, a hang glider, pilot and explorer, a super achiever in business-finance-investments from Florida, a man with winsome personality and heady success in business got so deeply impressed with Chitrabhanu's teachings that he took him as his Guru. He gave up smoking and drinking and chose meditation as his path to self and new life. He became Chairman of New York based World Meditation Centre. He has visited India thrice travelling; sleeping in Ashrams and worshipping in temple. He says, “In India at the Ranakpur Jain temple, the pillars were carved over a period of a hundred years. They are incredibly lace-like. It is built high, over underground waters. They believe that it gives the temple worshipper good vibrations from the deep waters'. He stood by the ancient pillars of faith and felt those vibrations.
Bob Feinson (Bahubali) goes on to confirm his vegetarianism: “I often think of you when I eat Chinese food in Taiwan or Hongkong. I know you will remember my comment about whether I can still eat Chinese food if I reach Nirvana? But in these countries they have vegetarian restaurants (Buddhist) that features a complete line of foods without any meat, fish, eggs and cheese."
He continues: “This last trip in Osaka, we were in a seafood restaurant where one of the courses was Lobster — raw and alive. They had taken out the tailmeat, chopped it up, but the front of the lobster was untouched, and it was still moving as people were eating the raw flesh. This is common in Japan and Korea (as you most likely know), but I will never get used to seeing this barbarism":
In his deep philosophical strain, Balbhadra talks about meditation: "Gurudev, the meditation on self which you
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