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0.5 Punishment or Change of Heart

April 1, 2023jambudweepMoral & Spiritual Value

Punishment or Change of Heart The story dates back to the days when social life had just come into existence. The number of people then was small and their wants were limited. The incidence of crime was negligible. Nevertheless if someone, by chance, had committed a crime of trivial nature, he was produced before the...

0.4 Discipline

April 1, 2023jambudweepMoral & Spiritual Value

Discipline Once a student of a college came to me. In the course of the discussion he asked: "Of freedom and discipline which do you consider to be the more important"? "Both freedom and discipline are equally dear to me", said I. "Hence it is difficult for me to say which of the two...

0.3 Patriotism: The Prestige of a Nation

March 31, 2023jambudweepMoral & Spiritual Value

Patriotism: The Prestige of a Nation A nation is a unit of people's prestige. The dignity of a nation is the dignity of its people and its disgrace, people's disgrace. He whose heart is filled with a sense of respect for his nation escapes many evils. Patriotism must not be inspired by hatred for...

0.2 Introduction

March 31, 2023jambudweepMoral & Spiritual Value

Introduction The question of imparting religious and moral instruction to students in schools and colleges has Engaged the attention of educationists for years but no practical solution of the problem has, yet, been found out. The pity is that everyone, even those who are in authority and are competent to unravel the knot, speak no...

0.1 Foreword

March 31, 2023jambudweepMoral & Spiritual Value

Foreword The basic import of the word 'morality is purity of heart. It consists in standards of virtuous behaviour. He whose heart is not pure can be called virtuous or moral. I do not want to belittle the importance of intellect by saying never it has no relationship with morality. However, do not wish to...

Navagarh – Ukhladji

March 30, 2023jambudweepAtishay Kshetra

Navagarh - Ukhladji Shri 1008 Neminath Digamber Jain Atishaya Kshetra NavagarhPlace – Navagarh-Ukhlad, Post – Pimpari (Deshmukh), District – Parabhani (Maharashtra) Pin – 431401 Phone 02452-265128Nearby City : Parabhani - 18 kmNanded - 70 km Mirkhel - 3 km Aurangabad - 200 km Shri Neminath Digamber Jain Atishaya Kshetra, Navagarh is famous for ancient miraculous...

Marakkonam

March 30, 2023jambudweepHistorical Jain Teerth

Marakkonam CHENNAI: It is difficult to find any idol inside the eighth century Jain temple in Marakkonam, a village near Vandavasi in Tiruvannamali district. All that you will find are two rock sculptures of Jain tirthankaras in sitting posture one near the pillars at the entrance of the ruined structure and the other, a few...

Kazhugumala

March 30, 2023jambudweepHistorical Jain Teerth

Kazhugumala "Kazhugumala" centre of Jaina learning for 300 years from the 8th century A.D T.S.SUBRAMANIAN WE were completely unprepared for what awaited us as A. Gangadurai, the caretaker, opened the locks of the single gate near a barbed wire fence and led us down a flight of narrow steps hewn out of a hill at...

2.4 Religious Tolerance and Jainism

March 30, 2023jambudweepJain Philosophy & Culture

Religious Tolerance and Jainism Dr. Sagarmal Jain This has been experienced that for human solidarity and national integration the concept of religious tolerance and religious co-existence should be developed. The idea that one's own religion is the only way to approach the ultimate is to be given up. It is a matter of great satisfaction...

2.3 The present Predicament and Jainism

March 30, 2023jambudweepJain Philosophy & Culture

The present Predicament and Jainism Prid K. M. Ladha Coming back after a visit to Nagasaki soon after the end of the Second World war, the late Jacob Bronowski proposed that Nagasaki should be preserved exactly as it was after the nuclear holocaust and that all future conferences on disarmament and other issues, which concern...

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