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Dr.Jitendra B.Shah
Ahemdabad
General Editor
Dilip V. Shah
Philadelphia
Always, ever; invariably
Proper moral conduct. (sad means good and Ācār means conduct)
Teacher who follows the scripture and follows the pathway shown by Omniscient…
Natural, simple
To bear suffering; endurance
Capacity/power to endure; capacity for patience.
Quality of a person for endurance.
Good man, gentleman,
Whole, complete, entire, all.
– the zenith of human life
Âcârya Pujyapâda in Sarvârthasiddhi makes…
Offering;
Surrendering everything to one’s spiritual guide or God
Competent, able, powerful.
Proving by argument; Justification; support
Equanimity, sense of equality
Sam means right and avāy means knowledge, right knowledge
Samavāya is…
Settlement (of dispute), solution (of intricate problem); satisfaction
Beginning, commencement;
Function or ceremony.
True faith, enlightened faith. (Etymological Point of View): The book Saman Suttam is a brief compilation of the essential principles…
Ācārya Samantabhadra was a great Digambar ascetic endowed with exceptional knowledge of Samavasaran (assembly hall) is a place from where Tirthankaras preach religious sermons. Samayasāra is the most important philosophical work by Ācārya Kunda-Kunda. It deals…
(Total Absorption or Super Conscious State): Ācārya Pūjyapāda’s (circa 5th century CE) Samādhitantram is a spiritual work consisting…
Tirtha: It is on the Samet Shikhar Hill near Madhuvan in the…
King Samprati was a great Jain king who lived during the second…
One of the nine tattvas (categories of truth) Wrong perception, absence of…
Experiencing, feeling, perceptible experience. After Right Faith and Right Knowledge, the third, but the most important…
In the initial stage of spiritual development, a person acquires knowledge by…
(Right Knowledge) This is third of the fourteen stages of the development of the…
Everlasting, eternal; coming down from ancient time Director, manager Doubt, suspicion; uncertainty Alliance, union, reconciliation, a treaty, euphonic combination Doubtful, not clear, suspicious Association, Collection; result of deluded karma. Super imposed, impulse or animal feelings Volition, resolution, will, resolve Hybrid, cross breed, something mixed Fault of mixing together, commingling fault, hybridization Sign, signal, hint Tirtha: It is in the center of a village in the state…
The ruling class of India has always been respecting saints and…
Numerable Passionate thought activity Going from one place to another, transition Honor, respect, veneration Facing, face to face, in front of, in the presence of Mundane existence, undergoing transmigration, worldly existence, wandering through, worldly illusion, worldly life…
Mundane soul, mundane living being, embodied soul Culture, civilization. Hermit, good, holy Abstinence, restraints, action of subduing one’s bodily desires. Seven fears: Seven ways of considering, the theory of seven predications, seven modes Straight forward, without comlications Saraswati, the goddess of knowledge, is considered to be the source of…
Satya or Truth is the fifth of ten virtues Digambars celebrate during…
Satya means Truth and Anu- Vrat means one of the 12 minor…
This is the stage where all the Kashāyas (passions) are destroyed…
The Jain Sangha (congregation) is made up of four…
He was one of the most outstanding Jain gentlemen of the…
(State of Equanimity) Relativity. This is the second stage where the soul finds itself for a…
True, genuine, essential, honest, natural indication of feelings (Literal Point of View) Once upon a time, there lived a poor woman and her son…
India is a land of Saints, highly learned persons, mendicants, monks…
Once Ācārya Shri came to know that a big volume of…
(Rabbit Pose) The fourth of ten virtues Digambars celebrate during the high holidays known…
Arya Shayyambhava was born in Brahman family at Rayagarha in Vatsa lineage…
Before it became known as Jain Dharma, it was called Shraman Dharma.…
Virtuous and moral conduct; chastity (in a woma) Disciple, student Manifestation of stable condition of the soul, pure soul, auspicious, beneficial. …
Faith, reverential belief, reverence. Shraddhā is non relativistic in nature, primarily…
Listening Tirtha: It is on Vindhyāgiri hill near the village of Shravanbelgolā in…
Along with the path of liberation consisting of right faith, right knowledge,…
Along with the path of liberation consisting of right faith, right knowledge,…
Listener Crematorium, open grounds where dead body is brought to be cremated. Shrimad Rājchandra was a great seer and one of the most recognized…
At one time, the kingdom of Champā-nagar was ruled by King Singhrath,…
Knowledge obtained by study, scriptures, sacred knowledge Knowledge obtained by study, scriptures, sacred knowledge There are two levels of this Leshyā. The great soul observes the…
The Jain community is divided into two sects: Shvetāmbars and Digambars. Both…
All Arihantas or Omniscient ultimately become Siddhas when they complete the…
This sutra is the description of respect paid to all the Siddhas…
lived during the time of King Vikramāditya (4th or 5th century C.E.)…
(Six essentials and daily observances) This parable illustrates Jain philosophy of Syādvāda. (Ātmā) The Sthānakavāsis arose as reformers, curtailing the excesses of renegade monks…
It is difficult to progress spiritually without proper guidance from the right…
(Immobile) The kingdom of Magadha, in the state of Bihar, possessed a long…
Gautam Swami was not Bhagwān Mahavira’s only Gańadhar; in fact, there were…
Pandit Sukhlālji is considered to be an all-round figure of greatness of…
In this stage of a high degree of purity of the soul,…
As per Jain literature, sutras are to be recited in certain physical…
(Nature of a Substance) Ācārya Samantbhadra’s Svayambhūstrotra is a fine composition in Sanskrit dedicated to the The Swastika is considered an auspicious and a pious symbol. The red…
or Sapta-Bhanga (Seven Predications) Meaning Of Samvatsari Sanyog
There are eight pillars of Samkit:
Samabhirudha Naya is different from Shabda Naya…
Samādhi is the eighth or…
Right Knowledge is "that knowledge which reveals the nature…
Sanyam is the…
1. Ihlok – fear relating this life
2.…
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To remain in the state of equanimity without…
In a substance, there are many virtues – dharma, to…
The Verbalistic approach is called as Shabda…
Shashkāsan is one of the Āsanas (Yogic exercise) practiced…
Jainism is a very practical religion,…
Once a royal retinue…
What is Soul?
Where is it?
What color…
Immobile Jivas have only one sense, the sense of touch.…
Every substance has its own nature and…
Let us now understand what the theory…