|
Dear Sadharmik brothers and sisters,
Jai Jinendra!
 Hope you have registered for the JAINA Convention 2021 so you don't miss all the entertainment, religious knowledge, inspiring speeches, and amazing activities that the JAINA Convention team is bringing in your living room this July. If you still haven’t registered for the JAINA Convention 2021, we give you more reasons to register now. For the first time ever and exclusively for JAINA, the Theater and Screen actors are coming together with a hilarious and meaningful drama in Hindi, Rang De Sanskar!
JAINA Convention 2021 is calling in all the Pathshala students to participate in Sutra recitation. We will showcase it during the JAINA Convention 2021. All you have to do is recite one Sutra as mentioned
and upload the video on www.jainaconvention.org/cultural-program.
JAINA Vaiyavach committee is very happy to declare that an anonymous donor has generously pledged $230,000 for various vaiyavach projects. Thus, fulfilling our initial goal of raising one million Dollars for 2020 -2021. Seeing the continuing outpouring of community support for this noblest of causes, we are now increasing our fundraising goal to $1.5 million for 2021 so that we can attend to the requests of other worthwhile Vaiyavach projects from the community. Among the requests we are considering projects from Bidada Sarvodaya Trust for Vaiyavach of Sadhu Sadhvis, a library with 40,000 books for the Academic center (Adhyan Kendra) for Sadhu Sadhvis near Sankheswara, a Vihardham between Antrikshji and Akola, and a Upashraya in Alok Nagar in Indore. The committee will study these proposals in detail and will attend to them as the funds are collected.
In addition to financial support, you can also help by volunteering. JAINA is looking for North American volunteers to assume the role of “Project Managers” for new constructions or renovations of JAINA supported Vihardhams in Ayana (Maharashtra), Umran (MP) Khinchi (Rajasthan), Nandj and Adarajmoti near Ahmedabad, Paroli near Godhara, and Antrikshji (Maharashtra). JAINA would preferably like to assign the role of project managers to persons who hail from these individual towns but anyone with experience of having managed construction projects in India is welcome to apply. Additionally, JAINA would like your help in finding local residents of these towns to play the role of observers of JAINA projects. Please write to Mahesh.wadher@gmail.com if you wish to help.
International School for Jain Studies (ISJS) is back with its Summer Programs 2021. The programs offer excellent opportunities for overseas University students, faculty members, and researchers to learn about Jainism and Non-violence through its 3/5-week
Residential, and Online programs.
Also, ISJS along with the Jain community in the USA, Canada, Europe, and India bring the 2nd Bhagwan Mahavir Fellowship to Study Prākṛta in India. This 9-month course will be conducted, from August 17, 2021– May 16, 2022, to promote and build a cadre of serious Jain scholars well versed in the Prākṛta language, its education, and Research in North America, Europe, and India.
This week, we will learn how the simple practice of awareness in whatever we do can bring about a revolution in our lives, from Gurudevshri Rakeshbhai.
Read an article "Nourish: The Definitive Plant-Based Nutrition Guide for Families" in Jain Digest February 2021 issue. Also, if you or anyone you know is interested in writing for Jain Digest June 2021 issue, send us an email at jaindigestpublication@gmail.com
or text to 310-721-5947.
We will learn the Six Universal Substances and understand the first substance in detail under the Jain Reality and Existence by Pravin K. Shah.
If you have not received JAINA 2021 Calendar and need one then please contact Jayana Shah, Calendar Committee Chair @ jayana.n.shah@gmail.com - (714) 856-4256
Watch Rahul Kapoor Jain talking about Challenge yourself and change for the better...
Please click the red button below to read details on all the above news.
Sincerely,
Mahesh Wadher
JAINA President
|
