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Sallekhanā By Acharya Shantisagar

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Sallekhanā By Acharya Shantisagar Acharya Shanti Sagar Ji Maharaj was the greatest Digambara Jain saint of the modern India. He was the first Digambara saint to visit North India after many centuries. ‘Charitra Chakravarti Shanti Sagar Ji Maharaj, embraced the historic ‘Sallekhana’ in Kunthalgiri (Hyderabad) on August 14,1955 giving the position of Achharya to his...

Dharmāmŗta (Sāgāra)

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Dharmāmŗta (Sāgāra) Dharmāmŗta (Sāgāra) is a standard book dealing with the ethical code of householders. *When the body is healthy, noble men should try to maintain it through suitable nourishment and activity. When disease supervenes, appropriate medicines should be administered to cure it. If the body, ignoring the services rendered (for its maintenance and curing),...

The Festival of Death

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The Festival of Death By Late Shri Champat Rai Jain Death is a horrid theme. No one is happy at the thought of it, even thoughtless, irresponsible youth, who lightly talks of it. According to Rousseau, the man who professes not to fear death is a liar! This is true in all cases except those...

Sallekhanā and Saint

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Sallekhanā and Saint Chapter VIII (How to Die) of the book “Sannyasa-Dharma”  by Late Shri Champat Rai Jain The one undertaking or business of the sādhu (homeless ascetic) is the overthrow of death, which is held in the utmost dread by the generality of mankind. The sādhu aims at its destruction from the very commencement, ...

Acharya Amritchandra

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Acharya Amritchandra Acharya Amritchandra was a digambara acharya who lived in the tenth century (Vikram Samvat). Puruşārthavsiddhyupāya Acharyaji is the author of Puruşārthasiddhyupāya which deals with the conduct of householder (sravak) in detail. Puruşārthasiddhyupāya also deals extensively with the Jaina concept of ahimsa (non-injury) particularly in reference to its observance as a minor vow (anuvrata)...

Acharya Samantabhadra

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Acharya Samantabhadra Acharya Samantabhadra was a famous Jaina saint, said to have lived about the latter part of the 2nd century A. D. Jain texts composed by Acharyaji  Ratna Karanda Sravakachara Svayambhu stotra Āpta-mīmāṁsā (Logic of the Omniscient Lord)

Pancham Kaal

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Pancham Kaal (Panćama Kāla) Pancham (fifth) kaal (time), hence the period of time is the one that is actually current now. It is the period of deterioration, characterized by conditions of existence that would slowly become very painful and distressing. It commenced only 2460 years ago, and has still got 18540 years to run. There...

Vardhaman Mahāvīr

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Vardhaman Mahāvīr  'Namāh śri Vardhamāna-e nirdhutakalilātmane''''Sālokānāma trilokānāma yadā-vidyā darpanāyate!'' I bow to Śri Vardhamāna Mahāvīra who has washed off the impurities of karmic filth from His Soul, andIn Whose Perception scintillate the three Worlds and the infinity of Space, as in a mirror ! Vardhaman Mahāvīr was the twenty-fourth and last tirthankara of ''avasarpini''. In...

Jainism And Christianity

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Jainism And Christianity Jainism and  Christianity  are two major religions. JAINISM, CHRISTIANITY & SCIENCE by BARRISTER CHAMPAT RAI JAIN Jainism claims to be a Science. It was founded by MAN; "properly qualified MEN" have been confirming and re-confirming its doctrine. Put- in a nutshell, its teaching is only this: man is not only a bundle...

Tirthankara- The Founder of Jainism

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Tirthankara- The founder of Jainism There is a special fascination in the number four and twenty; the Hindus have twenty-four avataras (incarnations) of their favourite god, Vishnu; there were twenty-four counsellor gods of the ancient Babylonians; the Buddhists posit four and twenty previous Buddhas, that is teaching gods. The Zoroastrians also have twenty-four Ahuras who...
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