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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.

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

QUOTE OF THE WEEK:
Spring is upon us. We are shedding the dry winter leaves from our life because we are preparing for freshness.

Chitrabhanuji
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THIS EXCERPT IS FROM ONE OF JAIN MASTER
CHITRABHANUJI'S TALKS

THE LION CUB

A lioness was killed by a hunter, leaving a cub orphaned to fend for itself in the jungle. A few days later, the cub was found by a shepherd who nurtured it with other sheep. When a sheep bleated, the cub mimicked its sound.

A year later, a lion saw the sheep and roared. The sheep ran in terror. The lion watched the cub run with the sheep. Amazed and curious, the lion caught the cub and asked, "Why are you frightened and run like meek little sheep? Do you know who you are?"

The cub replied, "I am a little sheep."

The lion brought the cub to a creek. "See your reflection in the water. Your face is like mine. I am a lion," it said in a loud roar.

"I do not have your roar," replied the little cub, "How can I be like you?"

"You have forgotten yourself by living with sheep. But you are a lion. Practice roaring. Open your throat," said the lion. The cub practiced and opened its throat to roar for the first time and it echoed in the jungle. He reclaimed himself as the King of the jungle.

WRONG COMPANY AND CONDITIONING HIDES THE REAL SELF. WE FORGET OUR TRUE NATURE

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What is MEDITATION ? The integration of thoughts, words and actions.

Jealousy-hate!
I let go of hate, people consumed by it
often become exactly what they once Hated.

Uncertainty is the only certainty there is,
And knowing the truth and how to live with insecurity
Is the only security.

Chitrabhanuji

Indiscriminate killing at taxpayer expense by the US Department of Agriculture's "Wildlife Services" branch is the focus of a front page story in today's, Sunday April 29, Sacramento Bee. This first piece in a three part series by reporter Tom Knudson is titled, "The killing agency: Wildlife Services' brutal methods leave a trail of animal death."  
   It opens with the story of a Wildlife Services agent accidentally trapping a majestic golden eagle in a neck snare and being told by his boss to bury the evidence.  
"Since 2000, its employees have killed nearly a million coyotes, mostly in the West. They have destroyed millions of birds, from nonnative starlings to migratory shorebirds, along with a colorful menagerie of more than 300 other species, including black bears, beavers, porcupines, river otters, mountain lions and wolves.
 
"And in most cases, they have officially revealed little or no detail about where the creatures were killed, or why. But a Bee investigation has found the agency's practices to be indiscriminate, at odds with science, inhumane and sometimes illegal."

The article shares details about the history of the agency, some shocking statistics, and some heart-wrenching personal stories of loss -- thousands of family pets have been accidentally killed..

The bitter irony is that while legislators argue over cost cutting measures this agency spends close to 100 million dollars per year killing animals that few citizens wish to see exterminated. When the series continues tomorrow and then on Sunday May 6 we will read about critics who have various recommendations -- including eliminating the agency. (It would be nice to see the Bureau of Land Management -- which I call the Department of Mustang Murder -- go out with it.)

You'll find the full article on line at http://tinyurl.com/8625p3l . It is well worth reading and the rest of the series will be too.
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