Wave of Bliss

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

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THE PRACTICE OF RELIGION
way to be responsible for stealing anyone's time or space or emotions or capability to evolve. I want to be so clean that every speak is part of my awareness. No clinging, no heaviness."
'Everything seems different. I do not want to read books. I do not want to go to groups. I do not want to see the movies. I do not want to discuss philosophy. I want to be silent. Not out of frustration, but out of a deep longing to 'experience'. I only want to breathe, to meditate, to practise my yoga, and to go over and over the tapes — all 36 of the gyanasara series ... I am so completely full of reverence for life and appreciation for the teaching that there is no room for anything else – no desire, no demands, no frustrations. You Guru are 'my dawn'. Guru Pavajjami, Swatva Pavajjami!!
Nidhi Durand observes: "On January 22, I celebrated my first anniversary as a Jain and it was a very happy day, I spent that day in silence, yoga, spiritual reading, meditation and repeating the vows I took one year ago. My dedication to these vows is stronger than ever."
Banow from Miami embraced respect to life out of conviction and practises it with enthusiasm and devotion. He writes, “I continue to pursue Samayika and the theme of SIDDHA and the meditation bears fruits. I see how you have gently guided me to accept the path of being alone. At Harvard you told us, “Be a sheep and the wolf will be at your throat; be alone like a lion'. Then you offered me the name of Abhay (the fearless)".
Abhay succeeded in overcoming his fear of being alone by discovery of his own soul power and getting over obsessions about material possessions, lust and attachment. He grasped the link between religious