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RAKESHBHAI JHAVERI  PROMOTES JAINISM IN AFRICA - To promote Jain Religion,  Gurudev Pujyashri Rakeshbhai Jhaveri (fondly called Bapaji) extensively travelled the African continent for a month- long spiritual excursion, this May-June. His visits to varied cities were thronged by devotees, followers and aspirants of the Jain Community, across sessions of devotional prayers ,discourses, puja and  meditation. India-based, Pujyashri's healing force has set up a momentum across Durban, Cape Town, Johannesburg, Nairobi, Kampala, Mombasa, Zanzibar, Dar-es- Salaam with His charisma and ceaseless love. Spiritual centers of SRA (Shrimad Rajchandra Ashram) were inaugurated in few of these cities, during the course of this first visit of Pujyashri. Devotees  experienced the all embracing joy and beauty of Jain wisdom and culture, through the presence and profound teachings of Gurudev in the discourses. The informative, thought-provoking and elevating sessions conducted  spread religion as a celebrative way of life and a union of synergy, enthusiasm, peace and prayer.

Gurudev, who is well-known for the youth's magnetism towards him, believes in making religion and the traditional scriptures accessible and relevant to the modern world. His perspective on practice of religion includes ideas on interfaith, philosophy, mindfulness and spiritual awareness. Timeless values of Jainism, including ahimsa, satya, saiyam, kshama, vairagya, aparigraha, and the search for moksha forms the basis for real inner growth. While today's world spends time in the rat race seeking material fortunes, Gurudev lovingly creates a spiritual transformation amongst his seekers, through harmony and faith. Pujyashri is also taking forward the eternal legacy of the most recent Jam Tirthankar, Shri Mahavira Swami, so well expounded by Shrimad Rajchandraji (1867-1901). Pujyashri's brilliance has enabled him to effortlessly master subjects like the Six Fundamental Schools of Thought, Shwetambara and Digambara Jain Scriptures, Logic, and Sanskrit to name a few.

Academically having passed M.A. (Philosophy) with a gold medal, He wrote an extensive research treatise on Shrimadji's finest literary creation, Shri Atmasiddhi Shastra (a poetic composition On self-realization), for which he was conferred with the degree of Ph.D.