Wave of Bliss

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

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THE PRACTICE OF RELIGION
invented, gravitation was there or not? So he is not a manufacturer — he discovered. But still we give credit to Newton. Einstein invented a theory and in that theory he proved that energy can be turned into matter and that matter can be turned into energy, it is convertible. And that theory of relativity is not a product of Einstein. He presented what was there already. Television was not manufactured. It was the law – how the vibrations are working, how you can capture them. In the same way Mahavir did not manufacture anything. He experienced what was the law of life — why people are unhappy, why people are not enjoying the journey. They are well equipped, they have the language, they can express, they have the brain, they can reason, they have the emotions, they can communicate, they have five senses and each sense can enhance something good in the universe. So what one needs to know is that the person is not using them. He is misusing them. She is misusing them. If you don't use properly, anything which is dormant it misuses more. If you use it, at least it will sparkle, it will be polished, but if you don't use it, it rusts. The human talent is rusting, the inside is corroding. So we have to see that this our human life. We have to make it ...
Every person has the wellspring in her and in him. And that we realize through meditation, through concentration, through teaching, through breathing, through listening, and gradually we have to erase the old words which have made us so helpless dependent, weak and frightened. So here, these are the days, these eight days, are specially meant for the people's awareness, for their realization, for their own good. These eight days are for people to be people. These eight days are for individuals to be individuals. And these eight days are for you to give a gift to yourself because you have been so generous, you have given to everybody.