For complaints, use another form. Study lib. Upload document Create flashcards. Flashcards Collections. Documents Last activity. Add to Add to collection s Add to saved. For other uses, see Jain disam- 1. Jains believe that Jainism is an eternal dharma with the Tirthankaras guiding every cycle of the Jain cosmology.
These principles have impacted Jain culture in many ways, such as leading to a predominantly vegetarian lifestyle that avoids harm to animals and their life cycles.
Namokar Mantra is the most common and basic prayer in Jainism. Reality can be experienced, but it is not possible to totally express it with language. From Truth, according to Mahavira, language returns and not the other way around. Six outer and six inner practices are most common, and oft repeated in later Jain texts.
For Jain laypersons, it recommends lim- as a means to control desires, and a means to purify ited possession of property that has been honestly earned, the jiva soul. Material possessions refer to various years. Psychic possessions refer to emotions, likes and dislikes, attachments of any form. In addition to the four passions of the mind, the remaining ten internal passions are: wrong belief, the three sex-passions male sex-passion, female sex-passion, neuter sex-passion , and the six defects laughter, like, dislike, sorrow, fear, disgust.
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These are called anuvratas small vows for Jain layperson, and mahavratas great vows for Jain mendicants. This vow is to always speak the truth, neither lie, nor speak what is not true, do not encourage others or approve anyone who speaks the untruth. A Jain layperson should not take anything that is not willingly given.
