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Welcome to Jain Meditation. This site provides and shares Gurudev Chitrabhanuji's experience of meditations and insights, and throws light on our self-created limitations. He shows ways to break through negativities and escapist patterns of thinking. In this breakthrough, there is freedom and celebration.
QUOTE OF THE WEEK: He is not only a Master lecturer, but an enlightened spiritual teacher to millions of seekers in search of truth, and self-realization. Continue here The level of success of meditation depends on your intensity, effort, commitment, and longing. Chitrabhanuji THIS EXCERPT IS FROM ONE OF JAIN MASTER CHITRABHANUJI'S TALKS CURIOUS NEIGHBORS There was a man who owned a strong Arabian horse. Though not a rich man, the farmer was proud of owning such a fine stallion. One day the horse ran away and disappeared. A few neighbors visited the farmer that day and lamented, "What bad luck you have!" Surprised the farmer asked, "How do you know it is bad luck?" In the meantime, his horse was in the forest and joined a herd of wild horses. After a while, the horse returned to the farm with ten new friends. The farmer and his son were very happy to now have eleven fine horses. The same neighbors returned and cried out, "What good luck you have!" Again, the farmer replied, "How do you know it is good luck?" Months passed and the wild horses were cared for by the farmer's son who spent a great deal of time with them. But one day the son fell from a bucking wild horse and broke his leg. Hearing the news, the neighbors reappeared and commented to the farmer, "What bad luck you have." The farmer replied impatiently, "How do you know that I have bad luck?" By now his neighbors thought the farmer was truly odd. As war emerged in the country, all young men in the village were drafted into the army, except the only son of the farmer. The farmer's neighbors stopped by, "Now admit that you have good luck." The farmer replied again, "How do you know it is good luck? Luck is the ONLY thing that is ever changing. Live just in the present without fear of the future and the burden of the past!" TO LIVE, THINK, POSITIVELY ACCOMPANIED BY ACTION EQUALS JAIN DHARMA
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UPDATES GURUDEVJI'S added one more MEDITATION :WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24 at Bharatiya - 305 Seventh Avenue -17th Flr - next to Chase Bank - at 7:20 PM. Click Wednesday Link above.
The Sunday, August 24 New York Times, has a long, wonderful, deliciously written article, by Caroline Dworin, headed, "Heaven's Angels." (City section Page 1). It's about a band of tattooed bikers who share "a peculiar tenderness for animals, and the intensity needed to act on the animals' behalf when people abuse them." ''I'm a vegetarian,' said Mike Tattoo (real name Mike Ostrosky), a former bodybuilding champion with a shaved head, great arms covered in art and a probing clarity in his blue eyes. 'And Big Ant has in his backyard three guinea pigs, a couple of rabbits, birds, cats -- and fish everywhere. But just because a person has tattoos, they wouldn't come running with us." Having run in crowds where animal abuse was rampant, often involving pit bull fights, the men volunteered at shelters and the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty Toward Animals, and they tried to solve cases of missing or abused animals that other organizations had neither the time nor the resources to address. Next month, the bikers will begin a program in the city's public schools to educate children about being kind to all animals, even the less attractive breeds. They will be accompanied by Elwood, a small, hairless Chihuahua mix judged in an annual California contest to be the World's Ugliest Dog. We learn of the bikers building doghouses for dogs left outside on cold days, or investigating cases of dogs left caged all day, and of them taking breeding pit-bulls and their litters to be spayed. It is a long and wonderful article, which I highly recommend you check out on line at
If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be vegetarian,
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