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drafted against his or her wish in U.S. Military. JAINA issues a certificate to any one facing this problem. In matters like these if JAINA does not help one of its own, who will?
Recently established Jirnodhar committee is going to be taking restoration projects for some of the temples in India. Last year this committee helped an organization in Ahmedabad that treats our Sadhus and Sadhvis. JAINA's first ever pilgrimage from North America last year enabled many of our senior citizens to fulfill their life time desire to visit Samet Sikhar. Many of them blessed JAINA for doing for them what their children were not able to do for them. Now JAINA has promised at least one Sangh Yatra to India every year and will try to include our youngsters in the next Yatra.
The list goes on. Behind each of these activities, numerous volunteers work diligently for the cause they believe in. Every three months, the Executive committee of JAINA meets in different city at the invitation of local Jain Center and the interaction between the members of the local sangh and JAINA leaders at town-hall type meetings become a love-feast. JAINA headquarters answers many questions from individuals needing some service or the other.
Imagine life for us Jains on this continent without JAINA. It is a very frightening thought indeed. Here is an organization that is proactive in working with our youth, helping pathshalas and temples, helping families through crisis, organizing relief efforts in India and around the world, making pilgrimage to our Tirthdhams possible and above all uniting all the Jains. Can you think of another organization that can perform these tasks better? Given time, JAINA's activities will even expand further. JAINA's non-sectarian views have earned respect from scholars and saints in India. So who needs JAINA? You, me and all the Jains everywhere.
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The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation.
We have not really budged a step from home until we take up residence in someone else's point of view.
If only all the hands that reach could touch.
Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
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