Jain Digest 1996 11

Author(s): Federation of JAINA
Publisher: USA Federation of JAINA

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FOR YOUR INFORMATION
Art Institute of Chicago's Asian Art Section has a display of Jain Tirthankers that has just come to the attention of the Jain Digest staff. Such permanent exhibitions of this magnitude are rare within the US. Jains who are visiting the Chicago area might want to take advantage of this worthwhile, permanent display of such ancient idols.
Southern California Jain community members who would like to be placed on the Jain Centers mailing list please contact: Tejas Mehta, 721 North Euclid Street, Suite 208, Anahieim, CA 92801 or E-mail, Tejas Mehta@aol.com or call 714/491-4000.
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, Burlington, MA 01803. Or you may phone 617/272-3666. At your request, the JCGB will include a free bird feeder with each order to reach our children Jiv Daya.
The Jain Youth Association of New York, Box 244, Ansonia Station, New York, NY 10023-0244, Phone and Fax 212/362-6483, "a well structured organization, based on Jain principles, that helps promote creativity and cooperation among today's Jain youth," has just published and anniversary issue of their activities. If any young person wishes to find out more about this issue or the activities of this group, please contact the address above.
Des Moines, Iowa is in the process of forming a Jain Society and would like to invite anyone who is interesting in participating from that part of the country. Approximately 20 families have been meeting once a month in the home of various Jains and hope to expand their membership base. For more information please contact: Hemendra Maiseri at 515/222-1964 or Niru Madia 515/ 267-1005.
"The University of Pennsylvania's - South Asia Regional Studies Department (SARS) has just begun a course of study on Jainism. The department is well endowed and offers joint degrees across schools such as: SARS and the Wharton School of Business or the School of Engineering. For more information concerning these studies at the undergraduate and graduate levels please contact: Richard Cohen, 205/898-7475 or David Nelson, 555 Van Pelt , 3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia PA 19104, or E-mail nelsond@pobox.upenn.edu, or call 215/898-7460, or fax 215/ 898-0559.
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 feeders 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 Vegetarian/Vegan books/booklets are available from The Vegetarian Resource Group, "Vegan Baking and Eggless Bread Recipes," "Vegetarian Diets During Cancer Treatment" and a two paged "Guide to Fast Food." For more information please contact the Vegetarian Resource Group at, P.O. Box 1463 Baltimore, MD 21203, or call 410/366-VEGE or at their Web site address: http://envirolink.org/arrs/VRG/home.html.
Internet address change for the Jain Center of Southern California is Jain Bhavan@aol.com.
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, long-distance, per-minute usage charges, billed and collected for each registered JAINA member, who chooses AT & T as their long-distance company.
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
Aristotle's Concept of God
God has no physical form. Thus he does not feel pain, hunger, thirst and desire. God is pure knowledge. Knowing is His one and only activity.
God possesses the knowledge of each and everything inherently and continually. He has no function except selfrealization. If some other function is attributed to God, some goal or purpose, aside from Him, will have to be assumed. Thereby God will have the blemish of limitedness and finiteness in respect, Aristotle's God is similar to the God of Jains.
- Babu Gulagrai M. A.
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