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Biography
Chetana Catherine Florida July 4, 1941-April 2, 2003
Catherine Florida was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan. She became a mantra meditator in 1972 after the death of her first husband. She taught metaphysics classes for "Do Something Different" in area high schools and colleges, and in 1979 founded the Lighthouse Center for Spiritual Development in Whitmore Lake.
She met Jain Master Gurudev Chitrabhanuji in the 1980's and in 1991 was initiated as his first apostle atop the holy Jain Mt. Shatrunjaya in Palitana, India. It was here that she was given her spiritual name Chetana, which means pure awareness, pure conciousness. She completed her fifth pilgrimage to India with Gurudev in September 2002 and received there the International Vegetarian Award from the Bombay Vegetarian Society.
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