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Bhagwan Mahavir's Message“Live and Let Live. Love all- Serve all.”
Jain Society of Toronto Would like to take this opportunity to send best wishes to the
JAINA leadership and Jain Community at large for success to presen
"Art of Living”
at 12th Biennial Jaina Convention
JAINA 2003 July 3-6, 2003 The Cincinnati Convention Centre, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
From: Arhant Jain, P. Eng., President,
Jashvant Shah, Vice-President, Pratik Shah, General Secretary, Harish Kothary, Treasurer, E.C. Members-Pritam Mehta, Minesh Shah, Samir Shah, Anil Vora, Rohit Shah, Shailesh Shah Youth Representative- Lily Jain Board of Trustees- Lata Champsee, Ramesh Varia, Dr. Mahendra Mehta, Bhushan Vora, Ramesh Jain, and all members of Jain Society Of Toronto Jain Centre- 48 Rosemeade Ave., Etobicoke, Ont. M8Y 3A5, Canada JSOT has been proud to host 2 Jaina Conventions in 1989 and 1997 and North East Regional Jain Youth Conference in December, 2002 in Toronto and is proud to promote Jainism to North America since Feb. 1974 and to Provide a platform for religious and educational activities thru releasing Jain books such as “Jainism and the New Sprituality" by Dr. Vastupal Parikh , a prominent member of JSOT.
“Non-Violence Is The Supreme Religion" And you are the symbols of AHIMSA, so units as Jains and not by Jain sects, and Divine blessings are yours. As a Jain individual, everyone is a combination of all four Jain sects: e.g.
1. Teerapanthi: means our 24 Tirthankara's sect and not my own. 2. Sthanakvasi: means one is searching for the place of his/her soul. 3. Shwetambar: means when one searches his/her soul then he/she becomes internally and
externally pure or white. Digambar: means there is no importance of dress on the path of self realization. One who has broken all bondage and knots of karma is Digambar. There is no cover of karma internally and no need of cover externally.
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