PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE

Dear Sadharmik brothers and sisters,
Jai Jinendra!

All Jain Centers must have celebrated Paryushan Parva and Das Lakshan Parva with a lot of devotion. This year, due to COVID -19, JAINA had set up daily virtual lectures, Samvantsari Pratikraman, and virtual Anumodna Bhakti for the community to take laabh. JAINA also sent daily newsletters with religious articles. I am happy to say that it was well appreciated by the community.

JAINA expresses a lot of Anumodna to all the Tapasvis.

During the last year and during Paryushan Parva or Daslakshan Parva, if we have hurt your feelings through our communication, emails, talks, social media, conversations, perceptions, actions, or inactions, knowingly or unknowingly, we on behalf of JAINA EC and JAINA BOD ask your forgiveness with an open mind and a loving heart.

JAINA Virtual Paryushan Program Analytics tell us that 17,928 devices viewed various JAINA programs over 8 days. See our condensed report below.

JAINA encourages you to take the Jain Mental Health survey if you haven’t taken it yet. The survey analyzes the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the mental health of the Jain community in America. The survey link is given below.

Jain Center of Greater Phoenix celebrated a virtual Paryushan 2020. They celebrated various events like morning and evening aarti, evening Pratikramans, Snatra puja, Shanti Kalash, Ashtaprakaari Puja, etc. Read below how JCGP celebrated the Paryushan.

Jain Society of Houston is inviting all to live Tapasya Ni Saanji on Saturday, September 5, 2020, to give anumodana to all Tapasvis. More details given are below.

To support homeschool pathshala, JAINA Education Committee decided to reduce the price of the Pathashala books by 50% for the USA and Canadian customers till September 30, 2020. More details given below.

Read part 3 of the Climate Crisis Series by the JAINA Education Committee. The article focuses on actions we can take to limit the adverse effects of climate change.

We will be issuing a special newsletter showing all the accomplishments by JAINA in the last one year.

Sincerely,

Mahesh Wadher
JAINA President

PARYUSHAN & DASLAKSHAN MAHAPARV 2020 TAPASVI RECOGNITION

JAINA VIRTUAL PARYUSHAN PROGRAM 2020 CONDENSED REPORT

The COVID-19 Jain Mental Health Survey

Thank you to those who have taken the COVID-19 Jain Mental Health Survey. The survey has a Patient Health questionnaire and a General Anxiety Disorder questionnaire, which will help to understand the state of mental health in a population.

JAINA encourages you to take this survey if you haven’t taken it yet. You can also share it with your family and friends. The purpose of this survey is to analyze the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the mental health of the Jain community in America. We hope you will help us by taking the COVID-19 Jain Mental Health survey.

CLICK HERE FOR THE COVID-19 JAIN MENTAL HEALTH SURVEY

Jain CenterS Latest News

Jain Center of Greater Phoenix

Jain Center of Greater Phoenix celebrated a virtual Paryushan 2020 where they noticed the fullest participation from the center members. All events were telecasted live either on YouTube or Zoom Webinar.

The spiritual activities included morning and evening aarti, evening Pratikramans, Snatra puja, Shanti Kalash and Sapna Vidhi celebrations.

The community also participated in the below events:

1. Ashtaprakaari Puja with Kids
2. In Communion with Jainism - a presentation by Youth about fundamentals of Jainism like 9 Tattvas, Journey of the Soul, the Karma Theory.
3. Chaitya Paripati - Pathshala kids presenting their video explaining the significance of tirth and building a model using legos and other home items.

J ain S ociety of H ouston

Jai Jinendra, Tapasya ni Saanji - Jain Dayro Jain Society of Houston is presenting Tapasya ni Saanji (Jain Dayro) on Saturday, September 5, 2020 at 8:30 PM CST/ 9:30 PM EST to do anumodana of all our Tapasvis. This year we had many Tapasya in Houston area.  We are inviting a team of famous and versatile singers from India for virtual bhakti bhavna. This will be LIVE on Youtube so, requesting all the Jain Sanghs of America to join to do anumodana of all the Tapasvis.  The YouTube link to join the program:- http://tinyurl.com/JSHYouTube

JAINA Pathashala Books Price Reduced by 50% - Till September 20, 2020

Due to the Coronavirus pandemic, JAINA Education Committee has observed that many parents have started the Jain Pathashala at their home to teach Jainism to their children.

To support the effort of home school Pathashala of these parents, the Education Committee decided to reduce the price of the Pathashala books by 50% for the USA and Canadian customers for about the next one month from August 25, 2020, to September 30, 2020. Any customer of the USA and Canada can take the benefit of this offer. (Canada customers pay very high postage charges unless the books are shipped to a USA address).

Also, If you do not have the budget to buy the Pathashala books of this reduced price, please reach out to jainaedu@jainelibrary.org, we will find the sponsor and ship the books to you.

JAINISM SAYS - WHAT IS CLIMATE CRISIS? (PART 3 OF 3)

This is the third and final in a series of 3 questions and answers about climate change. The prior articles explained the climate crisis (part 1) and why we should care about it (part 2). Today’s article is focused on the actions we can take to limit the adverse effects of climate change.

Question: What can we do about Climate Change? What are some specific and actionable things that we can do to help with these issues at an individual and citizen level, Community and Corporate level, Jain society, and pathshala level where we can influence?

You must have heard this popular term “Go Green” being used with Save the environment or Stop this Climate Change. Read the whole article here.

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The greatest mistake of a soul is non-recognition of its real self and can only be corrected by recognizing the self.