Tag: Religion and Peace

Hair Plucking -An extreme practice -Sudheer Nedlumane, Bangalore The Jain Sadhus and Sadhvis after receiving the Diksha (initiation), pluck their hair after every four months in a year. They pluck their hair or they get the hair plucked by others. The hair on face and scalp are plucked. This is called Kesh-lochan or Loch. It...

Samadhi Maran—The Ideal Death Perennial peace and perfection are the main targets of the wise souls who are really tired of transmigration and untold vissicitudes of the world. The royal road to ever-lasting bliss is the practice of right penances and austerities. Acharya Samanta Bhadra says, “Dharmnath Tirthankara had burnt the huge forest of karmas...

The Embodiment of Peace From hoary antiquity India has been esteemed and venerated for her charming and divine philosophy and highly cultured saints. Countless inhabitants of the country had renounced their material comforts and amenities of life in order to drink deep at the blissful fountain of human life in extreme seclusion and attain their...

 The Spirit of Vegetarianism This essay has been written to meet the demand of several friends of far off countries interested in Vegetarianism. In this mundane world we come across living substances consisting of soul and body. The sustinence of the body depends upon the diet taken by the living being. A view of the...

Karma Philosophy Almost all the believers in transmigration theory attach importance to the philosophy of Karinas. The adage, ‘as you sow, so you reap’ is significant enough to show the universality and popularity of this doctrine. The treatment of this subject is unique in Jain philosophy, in-as-much as it is scientific, rational and elaborate. No...

Syadvada (The doctrine of non-absolutism) The doctrine of Syadvada or the philosophy of many-sided aspects is a valuable contribution of Jainism to world-thought. This doctrine is also termed as Anekantvada. In fact every substance consists of infinite attributes. The philosophy which deals with the consistent and complimentary des¬cription of these attributes is known as the...

Antiquity of Jain Thought India is a land of manifold religions. A peep into the past history of her religions reveals the fact that in the ancient period three prominent religions were followed by the people of the country i. e. Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism. In former times Hinduism was termed as [[Brahmanical]] religion and...

Heart of Religion Address delivered on 26th of September. 1956 in the Eighth World Religious Congress at the Head-quarters of Ananai- Kyo, Shimizu city, Japan. “I bow to Lord Jinendra, who is the correct guide on the path of Nirvana-salvation, who has destroyed the mountain-like bundle of karmic shack-les and who knows the essentials of...

Religion and World Peace This essay was written as a reply to the question-"can world peace be established without religion ?" sponsored by Ananaikyo, Japan. If one peruses the pages of world history of religion, he is much distressed and disgusted to see how terrible massacre of innumerable souls was brought about under the banner...