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Academic Advisor
Dr.Jitendra B.Shah
Ahemdabad
General Editor
Dilip V. Shah
Philadelphia
Intoxication, Pride, arrogance, passion, madness
Middle, a cautionary path
Equanimity state.
To contemplate indifference to worldly obstacles and thereby get engrossed in the…
Sweet, melodious, beloved, dear, graceful, gentle.
Mahāvīra-swämi practiced severe austerities and deep meditation for a period of twelve…
All souls are entrapped in a cycle of birth, death and rebirth…
Sulpāni:
When the wandering Bhagawān Mahāvīra came to a village called…
(Mahāvīra Jayanti)
Mahāvīra Jayanti is an important Jain festival. The Jain…
Greatness, grandeur, glory, exalted rank or position.
High souled, magnanimous person.
A gold coin, stamp, seal
The fourth of eighteen Pāp karma.
Maithuna means being unchaste or…
Sexual impulse, coition animate feeling.
Dirtiness, depravity, wickedness
A long time ago, King Mahābal ruled over the city of Veetshoka…
State of “mine”, state of ownership, self-interest, egotism
Sense of ownership, mine ness sense of I and mine
Knowledge acquired through telepathy.
Establishing, proving (principle etc.). celebrating and decorating one’s position in a debate.
Good omen, benediction, prayer, any solemn ceremony on important occasion
Invocation of deity at the commencement of scriptural work.
Manglācaran
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Invocation of the blessings to bring in the purity
Churning or being churned, upheaval. Contemplating on the consequences of an act.
Spell, incantation, chanting of _
Cognitive knowledge, perceptual knowledge, sensory knowledge.
There are four parts of…
Humanity, of being in a human mode, of being human
Conventional wisdom of human being.
Seventh of the eighteen Pāp Karma. It means the ego. Egoism, pride,…
The pillar which stands before Digambar temple is called Māna Stambha, that…
Mārdava is the second of the ten virtues Digambars celebrate during the…
Path, advancing in the direction of chosen goal
Fallen from the path
Subject of inquiry regarding living beings.
Living beings are classified with…
Jealousy, envy, one has knowledge that is not shared with others out…
Eighth of the eighteen Pāp karma. It means to deceive, cheat, or…
Seventeenth of the eighteen Pāp Karma. Telling a malicious lie with the…
Illusory, unreal, deceptive, false
See Dhyāna
King Shrenik of Magadha region in the state of Bihar had a…
A child climbed on a tree to fly kite. Unfortunately,… Read More
Michchhāmi Dukkadam is another greeting which requests forgiveness usually spoken after
…
Cognition, contemplation, deep reflection, inquiry
Non real, useless, untrue, to no purpose.
Hypocritical
Wrong faith, perverted faith, believing contrary to the nature of a substance…
Wrong vision, un-enlightened person. Vision that results in false conclusion
Last of the eighteen Pāp Karma. Mithyātva Shalya or Mithyā-darshan-shalya means false…
Rise of karma due to which soul has non-belief in Omniscient, scripture…
This is the lowest or first stage wherein the soul, due to…
Infatuation, obsession, facination
Deluding karma generates delusions in the soul with regards to its own…
Total Liberation from Karma. It is the last of the nine tattvas…
Childhood and Learning:
Shri Motilāl Kāpadiā was born in December…
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Second of the eighteen Pāp Karma. It is formed of two words.
That conquers death, Immortal
The Muhapatti is about 10 to 12-inch square piece of white cloth,…
Stupefied, perplexed, confused, stupid, foolish, dull.
Stupidities, ignorance.
Stamp, seal, signet, signet ring, coin, facial feature, face, certain movement of…
Crest, crown, diadem.
Primary, chief, first, leading
One desirous of salvation or liberation and making efforts to walk the…
A monk.
Great sage, great sage
Unconsciousness, delusion
Corporeal, with form, sensually acceptable matter, tangible