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Jai Jinendra!
For the first time in history of JAINA, a 5-day JAINA Convention will be held from
June 30 to July 4, 2017 in New Jersey. Registration fee will soon go up, so please
Register now. JAINA Conventions are life-time memories that you can give to your
family. Details are below.
Enjoy an innovative and beautiful JAINA Calendar 2017 and content rich Jain Digest
- both are on their way to you. An idol of Lord Parasnath, the 23rd Jain Tirthankar,
was found broken into pieces in a temple in the Vaibhavgiri hill at Rajgir on Saturday
morning. JAINA condemns such acts of violence and is working with Jain Leaders in
India to stop such heinous act.
Hope JAINA is fulfilling your expectations. Kindly provide your feedback on JAINA
activities in 2016 at adomadia@cisco.com. I need your valuable feedback to grow
JAINA further in 2017.
Wish you and your family very Happy Holidays.
Sincerely,
Ashok Domadia
JAINA President
Chairman - JAINA BOD
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Just as you do not like misery, in the same way others also do not like it. Knowing
this, you should do unto them what you want them to do unto you.
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 The important aspect of Anekantvaad
and Syadvaad is the subtlety with which it introduces the practice of Ahimsa even
in the Realm of thought. The moment one begins to consider the angle from which
a contrary view point is put forward, one begins to develop tolerance which is the
basic requirement of the practice of Ahimsa. The origin of all wars fought on the
surface of the earth can be traced to the worse of ideas, beliefs, and disagreements.
Anekantvaad and Syadvaad puts a healing touch at the route of the human Psych and
tries to stop the war of beliefs, which leads to the war of nerves and then to the
war of bloodshed. It makes all absolute in the field of thought quite irrelevant
and imparts maturity to the thought process and supplies flexibility and originality
to the human mind. If mankind will properly understand and adopt this doctrine of
Anekantvaad it will realize that real revolution was not the one which taught man
to develop his or her power of understanding from all possible aspects. Anekantvaad
can provide solution to many problems facing the world, even the mounting ecological
crisis is liked to adversarialism because it arises from a false division between
humanity and the rest of nature.
Modern judicial system, democracy, freedom of speech and secularism all implicitly
reflect an attitude of Anekantvaad. Jain tradition with its emphasis on Ahimsa and
Anekantvaad is capable of solving religious intolerance, terrorism, wars, depletion
of natural resources, environmental degradation and many other problems. Violence
in society mainly exist due to faulty epistemology and metaphysics as well as faulty
ethics. A failure to respect the life and view of others, routed in dogmatic and
mistaken knowledge and refusal to acknowledge the legitimate claim of different
perspective leads to violent and destructive behavior. Anekantvaad has a larger
role to play in world peace because Anekantvaad is designed to avoid one sided errors,
reconcile contradictory view points and accepts the multiplicity and relativity
of truth.
Thus Jain philosophy is in a unique position to support dialogue and negotiation
amongst various nations and people.
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VIMALNATH BHAGWAN
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 Vimalnath was the thirteenth Tirthankar
of the Avasarpini Kaal. According to Jain beliefs, he became a Siddha, a liberated
soul which has destroyed all of its karma. Vimalanath was born to King Kratvarm
and Queen Shyama Devi at Kampilaji of the Ikshvaku dynasty. Vimalnath Bhagwan got
his name Vimalnath as during her mother’s pregnancy, she radiated a soothing glow,
her temperature also became congenial , kind and generous. When Vimalnath Bhagwan
was born the whole atmosphere was also filled with a soothing glow, and inspired
by this spread of purity, the King thus named him Vimalnath.
He attained nirvana at Samet Shikhar and had 56 Gandhars. His topic of the first
sermon was the Bodhi Durlabh Bhawna. One should think that it is very difficult
for the transmigrating soul to acquire right faith, right knowledge and right conduct
in this world. Therefore one has the opportunity to be a religious person, take
advantage of it to develop right religious talent. One must contemplate on how difficult
it is for the souls that are wandering aimlessly in the sansar so they should not
be the slightest negligence in observing the religion propagated by the Jina. This
thought will strengthen once effort to attain right faith and knowledge.
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PATHSHALA IN NORTH AMERICA
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Author: Dilip V. Shah, Past JAINA President, Philadelphia
Dear Parents of Young Kids:
Can you answer the following questions?
What are the differences between the MahaVrats and AnuVrats? Which stotra is sung
by Lord Indra in praise of the Tirthankars? The single lamp in Mangal Divo represents
which Gyan/knowledge? What was the century when Sthanakvasi sect was formed? According
to Digambar tradition, name any four Tirthankars who never got married. Name the
five causes of Ashrav. What day ShrimadRajchandra born? Name the eight attributes
of a Siddha.
These questions are part of the 925 “Questions and Answers Book” pathshala kids
all over North America study when they wish to take part in the JAINA Academic Bowl
(JAB) competition. JAB is a team competition for young Jains held biennially at
the JAINA conventions. This competition tests the overall knowledge of Jain philosophy,
Jain history, Jain Conduct, Jain Literature, Ritual sutras, Tirthankars, Revered
Jain personalities, the Jain Way of Life, and more, as well as the ability of participants
to answer quickly.
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Every two years, JAINA brings together thousands of Jains from across the world
to learn facets of Jainsim and cherish long-lasting bonds. There will be learned
scholars and high profile speakers from both within and outside of our community
who will guide us on understanding inner selves, creating a better community. This
year theme being Jainsim and Science is more interesting as it relates to our daily
practices with Jainsim. The delegates will also get learning experience through
variety of events and engaging activities for each age group. So keep your excitement
high for this Jain yet scientific Convention at NJ Convention & Exposition Center
in Edison, NJ.Do not miss the bus before its full, please register for 5 days Convention
today which itself is first time in history of JAINA.
Register here: http://convention.jaina.org
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Young Jains of America is hosting socials throughout the month of December including
bowling, ice skating and even cupcake decorating events! Here, YJA members from
Chestnut Hill, MA enjoyed getting together for Dharma and Desserts this past weekend.
We hope to see you at next summer's JAINA Convention:
Jainism and Science, in Edison, NJ from June 30-July 4. As a reminder, to
participate in any youth programs, you must register for the convention and also
register for the appropriate activity category:
Youth Activities (Ages 14-23)
Young Jain Professionals (Ages 24+)
Jain Milan (Ages 21-42)
For more information, visit the individual program pages or email
registration2017@JAINA.org. We're excited to see you there!
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Jain Story: Queen Chelna and King Shrenik
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 This is a story from the time of BhagwanMahavir.
At that time, King Chetak was the ruler of Vaishali and he had a beautiful daughter
named Chelna. Once an artist called Bharata painted a picture of Chelna and showed
it to king Shrenik of Magadh. Charmed by Chelna's beauty, Shrenik fell in love wit
her. One day Chelna came to the city of Magadh where she saw
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The doctrine of Anekantvad is often criticized on the grounds that it engended a
degree of hesitancy and uncertainty, and may compound problems rather than solve
them. It is also pointed out that Jain epistemology asserts its own doctrines, but
at the cost of being unable to deny contradictory doctrines. Furthermore, it is
also argued that this doctrine could be self-defeating. It is argued that if reality
is so complex that no single doctrine can describe it adequately, then Anekantvad
itself, being a single doctrine, must be inadequate.This criticism seems to have
been anticipated by Acharya Samantabhadra who said: "From the point of view of pramana
(means of knowledge) it is Anekant (multi-sided), but from a point of view
of naya (partial view) it isekanta (one-sided).
What is your opinion on the above statement ?
Click Here share your views & comments on this blog
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TAX DEDUCTIBLE DONATION TO JAINA
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It is time to consider charitable contribution to JAINA as we nearly come to the
end of this year.
JAINA is the largest Jain organization outside India and is consistently working
towards mission of spreading Jain Principles to next generation and to larger Community
in North America. JAINA is a well recognized organization globally. It obviously
takes strong financial resources to carry out myriad activities of JAINA. We appeal
to you to consider JAINA for your year-end tax deductible donation. Each donor
over $ 200 will
be recognized in our weekly newsletter and Website. Please click on link below.
Alternatively, please write check in name of “JAINA” and mail to:
Mr. Haresh Shah
Chairman - JAINA Membership Committee
2302 Clearview Ave.
Wilmington, DE 19810-2525, USA
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Find below words:
1) ARIHANT
2) SIDDHA
3) SADHU
4) ACHARYA
5) UPADHYAYA
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