Jaina Gazette 1928

SR No.: 034890
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Ajitprasad, C S Mallinath
Publisher: Jaina Gazettee Office
Publication Year: 1928
Total Pages: 502
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 33 MB

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THE JAINA GAZETTE
Guna vrata, are, of course, "bound to take another daily Pratyakhyana with reference to their sphere of movemónt, or to the fourteen things of daily use described Before!
Whereas the Avasyakas are daily functions, there is another group of formalities, which regulate the ethical conduct of the individual in stages comprising longer periods. They are called Pratimas.
The Pratimas are of loss practical importance, because they are, at present, relatively rarely adopted. In: the Digambar Community, it is true, they act still a certain part. The Sravaka Pratimas are eleven in number, and form a series of austerities and performances, the standard and duration of which rises periodically, and which finally culminate in an attitude resembling monkhood. 6. The Sadhu-Pratimas are twelve' in number. They form, likewise, a series of restrictions and austérities increasing in intensity, though not in duration. :; :* Ladies and Gentlemen,
::. This is the short outline of Jain Ethics which I wanted to place before you to-day. Though Jain Ethies’ is a subject which cannot possibly be exhausted in one lecture, still thus much will have bócome clear that Jain Ethics is the result as well as the basis of a high standard of Human Culture: Selfcontrol, Non-injury, and Free Determination being its chief principles, and unselfish'service, study, veneration of the really Great, purity, and sobriety being some of its categorical demands.
It is a matter of great satisfaction that this time-honoured culture has not died out as yet: but is being carefully preserved by a community of enthusiastic ascetics as well as laymon, who, though small in number, still act an important part in Indian Society, especially in the North and West of India, by the esteemed position that many of its individuals occupy, and, last but not least, by the admirable way in which Modern : Ascetics have understood to be active in the service of their faith, without transgressing the narrow limits of their
monkhood. Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat