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JAINA CONVENTION 2011
"Live and Help Live"
of the most applicable. Jainism's values culminate in a more natural understanding of events, something that perpetuates a much more understanding world. .
suggest less usage of water, electricity and food. Forgiving others and asking for forgiveness from others is the most important way of accumulating punya in today's world. Just imagine the peace it would create by bringing mankind close to each other and work hand in hand to improve mother earth. From my monthly allowance I save 10% for the donation and by giving simple pleasure to others like the way I give one toy to underprivileged kid every year for Christmas.
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(8) Paap And Punya In Daily LifeVanshika Jonhsa
To a doctor, paap might be not attending to the patient in need and punya might be seeing some unfortunate patients for free. To a businessman, paap might be a bad investment and punya might be a money making deal. To the parents, paap might be having kids that do not listen to them and punya might be having good kids who do everything that they tell them to do but for me being a 9 year old paap means when my sister wins the fight and punya means I win the fight and she loses it. Let me tell you how my fundamentals of paap and punya changed since I got this assignment of writing about paap and punya in my daily life.
We talked a lot about punya but you know what unless you know what paap is you won't know how to avoid it and have more of punya. Paap is a karma you get when you do a bad deed. Like stepping on a book, hitting people, lying, hurting another living being etc. Of course you are thinking that I hit that person because he hit me why should I get a paap karma and not him? You get paap because you hit that person back. Instead if you had just walked away you would have earned punya.
I did some serious research and gathered the data that I'm going to present to you all today. First, let's talk about punya. Well, punya is the good thing you get when you do good deeds. Here are some examples of punya: being Jain, helping others, being honest, having physical and mental happiness, and donating to charity. As my mom says "you must have done lot of punya in your last birth to be born as Jain". So to begin with I had some punya in my account to be born as Jain and then by going to pathshala every week I learnt different ways of accumulating punya. I learnt that to gather punya in your daily life you can help others in need, not get into so many fights with your siblings, try not to make your mom angry, recycle, forgive others, saving some of your monthly allowance for the charity, helping your mom with the chores, telling the truth without worrying about the consequences, giving simple pleasures to others, etc. By recycling I help the earth, the mankind and other living beings by trying to decrease pollution and stop wasting the natural resources. As Jainism
Now you know punya and paap are like twins to each other. In your daily life they'll be seen together on your every footstep. So it is truly in our hands to avoid situation or deeds that can get more paap karma in your account. There is another popular myth associated with this theory of paap and punya. It is usual misbelieve that if you committed some bad karma (paap) it can be washed away by doing good karmas (punya). However the truth is that the accumulated paap and punya always stays with you in this life and the next but with the good karmas you can minimize the suffering that comes due to paap karmas. With this I conclude my essay paap and punya in daily life.
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(9) Paap and Punya-Avani Vora
My understanding of Paap and Punya is that you get paap when you do bad deeds and punya when you do good deeds. In simple terms, paap and punya are related to the
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