Dear Sadharmik brothers and sisters,
Jai Jinendra!

We cordially invite Jain Center Presidents, JAINA BOD members, and the Center members to a virtual Town Hall Meeting from West Region on Saturday, April 10th, 2021 at 11 AM PST. During this brief 30-minute presentation, the JAINA Convention team will provide an overview of the activities planned and will walk you through the virtual event platform of this unique convention. Please do not miss this opportunity to see the activities we have planned and how our virtual events will work.

Please help us reach the Vaiyavach Committee’s extended goal of $1.5 million for 2021. The fundraising is still ongoing for all the projects related to the “Vaiyavach” of Sadhus & Sadhvi Bhagwants of all the sects. Since our Sadhus/Sadhvis don’t travel to America, we never get any opportunity to serve them. They bring us the words and the wisdom of our Tirthankars but what can we give to them in return? Contributing to the Vaiyavach fund is a unique opportunity created by JAINA to fulfill our noble duty to care and provide comfort for our Sadhu Sadhvis. Please come forward and donate a tiny share to this noble cause.

Under the initiative ‘Know your JAINA’, the Jivdaya Committee will hold a townhall type community meeting on Saturday, April 17th at 10:00 am PST | 12:00 pm CST | 1:00 pm EST. Take this opportunity to meet committee members, learn of their programs, and ask questions. Join Zoom Meeting link Meeting ID: 963 6306 2470 | Passcode: JAINA

JAINA encourages you to participate in an open-book competition, Shree Aatmsiddhi Pratiyogita (Competition), to celebrate 125 years of Shree Aatma Siddhi Shashtra. The competition is a “devotional-religious” study, irrespective of caste, creed, religion, or place. Please encourage people around you to participate.

Gurudevshri Rakeshbhai explains when our existence becomes full of love, there comes immense contentment and sensitivity. Wherever we see someone, we should not become a cause for his sorrow and become a cause for his joy. With a little increase in sensitivity, we will focus on the needs of others over our own.

Let’s learn about Jain Tattvas and the Philosophy of Karma by Pravin K. Shah. It is said that without the proper knowledge of this subject, a person cannot progress spiritually. The proper understanding of this brings about the right faith (samyak-darshana), right knowledge (samyak-jnana), and right conduct to an individual.

The Jain Study Center of North Carolina is conducting a survey, designed by local youth to understand the needs of the center members as a sadharmik Jain who lives and/or raises a family in the Research Triangle area.

The past weekend, Jain Center of Greater Phoenix achieved another milestone in their temple’s history by having Bhoomi Shuddhi Pujan of their new Pathshala building -" Shri Atmasiddhi Bhavan". The pre-event was graced by Gurudevshri Rakeshbhai, virtually. JCGP experienced the grand Shobha Yatra and the brick layering ceremony on April 4, 2021.

Watch the interesting video, "Mind Over Matter", where Mukul Shah talks about five metaphors of the mind.

Can someone give away his everything? Watch this interesting video on learning to be a giver with no expectations of any kind by Rahul Kapoor.

Please click on the read more links on this page for detailed news on the above items.

Sincerely,

Mahesh Wadher,
JAINA President