Wave of Bliss

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

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becoming something else to be with others. And you are not you, you are continuously becoming something else... There must be something steady in you in order to receive or you become something else according to another's wishes or demands. It is very deep, continuously working in us and that is why we are not comfortable with us or others. And in this discomfort we are not able to see exactly what the problem is and that we are projecting the problem outside. And when you project the problem outside of yourself, what you need is an analyst because he explains your outside problem. Because he does not go in, you don't want to go in, both are playing outside again. It is a big business in America - lawyers, doctors, and analysts. In Asian countries, you will not find so many analysts; millions of people who don't have so much comfort as you have, but still they are not crazy. You don't find so many mental hospitals, nor so many asylums. In every country I see big hospitals and I ask who are the big executives, big educators, big doctors. I ask how could they become executives who have everything and still they have mental problems? What is mental problem? Mental problem is creating the emotions and trying to findout the answer and magnifying the small thing with the magnifying glass and not seeing the size of the problem, and the size of the thing, and the size of the relation and they go on magnifying.
THE WAVE OF BLISS
Mahavir was the last prophet of Jainism in 599 BC. His teaching came from the realization of what was going on in nature. So this philosophy in a way, is not coming from the books, not coming from the head, not coming from an individual. It is the philosophy of nature, it is the law of nature. Somebody experiences the law and that person articulates the law so we call him inventor. Newton invented what did he invent? Gravity. But before he
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