Wave of Bliss

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

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THE PRACTICE OF RELIGION
building this energy. So what we believe becomes that which we are...
Our thinking must be simple. Deceit complicates the simplicity of thinking just simple thoughts. When you were watching Mahatma Gandhi, the best quality in him was the simplicity of life. Mahatma Gandhi would not miss prayer or meditation anytime. One day they came back from a trip at 2 o'clock and they were so tired, he went to sleep. Three o'clock he got up, and started meditating. His secretary was one of the most dedicated men you could find; he was so much one with Gandhi that when Gandhi got up, he got up as though his sleep was aligned with him. He got up, and he said, you are tired. Gandhi said, I can live without food, but not without meditation or prayer. Because without food, I can live, body will be pure, but not without this purification of thought through meditation... My friends, that's the way he became Gandhi. At the physical level he was a bunch of bones. He was not a tall man, a handsome man. He was nothing. He was not even 100 pounds. Churchill (a very big man) mentioned he did not want to meet him because Gandhi had some magic in his eyes. What was the magic? Magic of love, magic of truth. Churchill said again, I don't want to see him. He hypnotizes you. Love hypnotizes, truth hypnotizes. Friendship is hypnotism, and I tell you, you will hypnotize anybody when you speak from your heart...
So now let us close our eyes and just visualize that you are in a form of a crystal body. Your body is a crystal. But we don't see the transparencies of the crystal because there is some dark liquid filling it. And we are trying in these eight days to take it out. So visualize that around your fingers and toes there are valves which you can open and close so the liquid can go out. Visualize the top of
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