Jain Festivals
Paryushan Parva
It is a period of repentance for the acts during the year and of austerities to help shed the accumulated karmas. The eighth day known as Samvatsari, is the most important. On this day, Jains ask for forgiveness from family, friends and foes alike for any act that may have hurt them during the previous year. They also forgive all. It is also a day when all those who have observed fasts are honored.
Das Lakshana (Ten Attributes)
The ten-day celebration of the Digambar sect starts immediately after eight-day Paryushan Parva of Shwetämbar sect. It is celebrated by more intense practice of ten cardinal attributes viz. forgiveness, simplicity, humility, contentment, truthfulness, self-restraint, austerities, detachment, non possession and continence. During this period, the o ender asks for forgiveness from those whom he has ever o ended on some occasion or the other. During this time, lost friendship or feelings are thus restored.
Mahavir Jayanti or Janma Kalyänak (Birthday Celebration)
The festival to commemorate the birth of Tirthankar Mahavir is called Mahavir Jayanti. It occurs on the 13th day of the sixth month of Indian calendar and usually falls in March or April. Jains get together to read the life and mission of Lord Mahavir and to listen to his teachings.
Pearls of Jain Wisdom The Soul
The soul is the architect of one’s happiness and sorrow. The soul on the right path is one’s own friend and a soul on the wrong path is one’s enemy. The pure soul is free from the activities of mind, body and speech. It is con ictless, detached, formless, substratumless, dispassionate, blemishless, free from delusion and fear
Knowledge
Knowledge is that which helps to understand reality, controls the mind and which enlightens the soul. Without right faith there is no right knowledge; without right knowledge there is no right conduct; without virtues, there is no annihilation of karmas and without annihilation there is no liberation. Just as a threaded needle does not get lost even when it falls on the ground, so a person endowed with scared knowledge does not get lost in the worldly stay.
Conquest of Passions
By conquering anger, the soul attains forgiveness. The more you get, the more you want; greed increases with every gain. A work which could have been done with two grams of gold, is then not done even with millions of grams of gold. Anger, pride, deceit and greed- these four blemishes escalate sinful deeds. One who desires the welfare of his self should renounce these four evils. Anger spoils good relations, pride destroys modesty, deceit destroys amity and greed destroys everything.
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