Ahimsa Times 2007 09 SrNo 87

Author(s): Ahimsa Times
Publisher: Ahimsa Times

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AHIMSA TIMES - SEPTEMBER 2007 ISSUE - www.jainsamaj.org
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During these pious days we should not become a cause (Nimitta) of suffering for any living being. However recent| technological advances have created a new environment for violence not visible to Jain leaders and common people. The use and abuse of animals raised for food and slaughter far exceeds our imagination. The cruelty to dairy (milk) cows and other animals has reached its peak behind the walls of dairy farms and slaughterhouses.
At the end of festival next morning before breakfast the fast, every Jain must go personally to everyone he or she can reach on foot and beg for forgiveness and offer forgiveness to acquaintances, friends, relatives and business contacts To those who cannot be reached personally, a letter is sent, in which we seek forgiveness. Particular attention is paid to people with whom there is some outstanding problem or dispute. Unless and until forgiveness has been exchanged the fast cannot be broken.
The Jain Forgiveness Prayer: (Khamemi Savva Jiva): 'I forgive those who have injured me and I beg for forgiveness from all whom knowingly or unknowingly I may have harmed. I declare friendship with all living beings, I have enmity towards no one.' From : P RADIP JAIN, Post Box 128, Mithapur, Patna 800 001, Ph 0612 2225929, E-Mail : philapradip@hotmail.com
JAIN EKTA MANCH, MUMBAI WANTS THE ABATTOIRS SHUT DURING PARYUSHAN The Jain Ekta Manch has demanded for closing of slaughter houses during the Jain Paryushan festival and stopping the export of meat. The Jain Ekta Manch, an umbrella organisation of 50 Jain sanghs form the western suburbs of Mumbai, handed over a memorandum to the mayors of Bombay and adjoining areas requesting them to shut the butchse houses during the Jain Paryushan festival period every year. Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation has issued orders for closing down the abattoirs in Deonar on September 8 and 15. Five . Jairaj Phatak, the Municipal Commissioner has informed that it is not possible to close the abattoirs on all days of paryushan. Five Lakh of animals are slaughtered per day in India, out of which the meat of two lakh animals is being exported per day. The Ekta Manch has therefore ddemanded that the government should modify its meat export policy and should ban meat export immediately.
CONFERENCES, SEMINARS & EVENTS VI INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PEACE AND NONVIOLENT ACTION ORGANIZED BY NGO ANUVRAT GLOBAL ORGANIZATION (ANUVIBHA)- ANUVIBHA that has been waging a campaign against violence and hatred in consonance with the goals of UNO for the last many years and will celebrate its Silver Jubilee. Many events have been planned in conjunction with the main celebration on 30th Dec, 2007, with the decision to organize the VI ICPNA on this occasion in two parts.
PART I - INTERNATIONAL DIALOGUES ON CHALLENGES OF VIOLENCE, HUNGER AND POVERTY : VOLVING SUSTAINABLE COUNTER MEASURES (23RD DEC. TO 25TH DEC., 2007) This first part is a vitally significant threeday dialogue (23rd Dec, to 25th Dec. 2007) on the Challenges of Violence, Hunger and Poverty.
PART II - 1st INTERNATIONAL NONVIOLENCE TRAINING CAMP (in association with Ahimsa Samvaay Kendras of| Jaipur and Rajsamand) Venue : CHILDREN'S PEACE PALACE - ANUVIBHA, RAJSAMAND, NEAR UDAIPUR (INDIA) THE SECOND PART of this three-day conference is the Nonviolence Training Camp which will be held from 26th Dec, to 28th Dec, 2007.
FIRST PART OF VI ICPNA INTERNATIONAL DIALOGUE ON' Challenge of Violence, Poverty and Hunger. Plenaryl Sessions -- The following plenary sessions have been planned: 1. The Challenge of Violence and its Many Facets - Terrorism, 2. Is Religious Reconciliation Possible? 3. Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) - The Effective Ways to Achieve Them. 4. Nonviolence - The Only Way to Human Survival. 5. Nonviolence Education and Training - Models and Approaches. 6. The Problem of Poverty V/s Mahapragya's Model of Nonviolence Oriented or Nonviolence Relativist Economics (ahimsa sapeksha arthshastra) 7. Hunger - Can it be Really Combated? 8. The Role of Religion in fighting Poverty and Violence. 9. Anuvibha's Balodaya Model of Education for creating Responsible Citizens of the Future.
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DR. SOHAN LAL GANDHI TO SPEAK ON "JAIN CONTRIBUTION TO INTERFAITH HARMONY" AT UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY ON THURSDAY 4 OCTOBER 2007 - Dr. Sohan
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