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Bhaktamar Stotra is available on video. It is sung by Anuradha Podwal with commentary by Harish Bhimani. The video will take you on a journey of the ancient Jain temples of India. If you would like to have this video, we request a donation in the amount of $10.00 plus $3.00 for shipping and handling ($.50 for each additional tape) to: Anil R. Shah, Jain Center of Greater Boston, 26 Humbolt Avenue, Burlingotn, MA 01803. Or you may phone 6171 272-3666. At your request, the JCGB will include a free bird feeder with each order to teach our children Jiv Daya.
long-distance, per-minute usage charges, billed and collected for each registered JAINA member, who chooses AT&T as their longdistance company. This program will bring JAINA an estimated $10,000 per year.
Please sign up now! Don't forget to give AT & T our account number 4 NAE 1987. If you have any questions, please call Kushal Jain at 908/949-0889
Pratishtha Mahotsav will be held at the Hindu-Jain Temple in Buffalo, NY on Memorial Day weekend, May 24 - 27, 1996.
Free Bird Feeders, the Jiva Daya Project of the Jain Center of Greater Boston is interested in seeing that your pathshala students receive a free bird feeder. Please send the name of your organization, the number of students, a contact person with phone number, the address to where the feeder should be sent and any comments or suggestions to: Jasvant C. Shah, Vision Computer, Inc., 84 Cambridge Street, Burlington, MA 01803. Or you may phone at 617/270-1099 or Fax to 617/273-1886.
Three eminent Jain Scholars, Pravinbhai Doshi, Pajendra Kamdar and Subhash Sheth will be visiting the USA on a tour to lecture and conduct camps from September through November, 1996. For more information about their visit please call Hasmukh Shah at 813/376-7290 or Nirmal Dosi at 908/390-0296.
World Vegetarian Congress will be holding its annual convention in the campus of the University of Pittsburgh from July 29 - August 4, 1996. For more information please call Brian Graff at 518/568-7970.
India Tour '96, Gurudev Chitrabhanuji will be conducting a tour of Jain Temples, mainly in south India, beginning around December 1, 1996. Anyone wishing to participate on this tour should contact the Jain Meditation International Center, Box 244 Ansonia Station, New York, N.Y. 10023-0244 or phone or fax for an application at 212/362/6483.
Young Jains Convention will be held in San Francisco, CA from July 4 -7,1996. This will be the YJA's second convention. For more information about this event see pages 13-16.
Jain Ekta a Jain religious magazine in Hindi for young Jains and their families is being offered by Rishabh Prakashan. For Rs 3,000 or $100 you may purchase a Life Membership to this magazine. For more information please contact: Ramesh Kerur, Editor in Chief, Rishabh Prakashan, 105 Jai Pragati Shopping Center, Daftary Road, Malad (East), Bombay, 400097, India. Phone: 8894091
Concept of God in Jainism
Jain Directory, 4th edition, will be updated by the Jain Center of Greater Boston. If you have moved or had an addition to your family since the last publication, please fill out the form on page 5 and return it to the JCGB, as soon as possible.
Jain Youth Directory will be published by the Jain Center of Greater Boston along with the Jain Directory. If you would like your name to be included please fill out the form on page 6 and return it to the JCGB, as soon as possible.
Jainism believes that the Universe and all its substances or entities are eternal. It has no beginning or end with respect to time. The Universe runs on its own by its own cosmic laws. All substances change or modify their forms continuously. Nothing can be destroyed or created in the Universe. There is no need of some one to create or manage the affairs of the Universe. Hence, Jainism does not believe in God as a creator, survivor and destroyer of the Universe.
However, Jainism does believe in God, not as a creator, but as a perfect being. When a person destroys all his karma, he becomes omniscient and omnipotent. He is a liberated soul. He lives in the perfect blissful state of Moksha. This living being is a God of the Jain religion. Every living being has the potential to become a God. Hence Jains do not have one God, but Gods are innumerable and their number is continuously increasing as more living beings attain liberation. Source Unknown
JAINA and AT & T have signed an agreement called the Association Awards Program. This is how it works. AT & T will pay JAINA 5% of the residential AT & T, direct dial, international,
If appropriate, the Jain Digest will be happy to publish items or the date and name of your up-coming event.
Please submit all information to the Editor in Chief, see address on page 2.
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