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modified form, which is termed as representing all the Jains without distinction Parigrahparimän, meaning laying limitations on based on sects, language or region. Our spiritual possessions. In order to keep possessiveness leaders wanted to set an example for Jains in India under control, they should lay voluntary to admire and follow. Unfortunately there are limitations on their possessions. Such limitations signs of gathering dark clouds on the North would of course vary from person to person. For American soil for Jains Let the winds of wisdom instance, Anand Shrävak had decided to adopt blow away the forces of divisionism and disunity. this restraint after listening to the sermon of Today Acharya Sushil Kumarji is no longer with Lord Mahavir. The ceiling limitations that he us but he has left us a shining example to follow laid were as high as 120 million gold coins, 4 at Siddhachalam. Coming from a Sthanakvasi herds of cows, 500 plows, 500 carts, 100 fields, tradition, he built a Temple with both, Digamber 4 navigable ships etc. And he was not the and Swetamber Pratimas. Gurudev exception. Kamdev and other Shravaks also had Chitrabhanuji has tears in his eye as he watches laid the limitations at fairly high levels. Thus what is happening to their precious dream of limitations are not necessarily to be laid at low unity. He calls himself and other scholars levels. Every one has to find a reasonable level "Postman of Mahavir" and urges everyone to put appropriate to his life style.
aside sectarian identification and just be follower
of Mahavir. His message has been: HUM SUB Once a ceiling limitation is decided upon, JAIN HAI. holding or possessing anything over and above that level amounts to transgression of the
Some positive signs of our community restraint. 2500 years before when this restraint maturing are visible. Recent Pratistha Mahotsavs was laid down, gold, silver and other metals, in Tulsa, Orlando and upcoming Temple in clothes and other articles of domestic use, land Niagara has brought all sects together. In Atlanta, and other real estates, animals, monetary wealth during this Paryushana under the guidance of and grains were the major articles of possessions. Gurudev Chitrabhanuji, tidal wave of The transgressions of this restraint were togetherness has produced a resolution to build therefore laid in respect of such articles. In order the new Temple accommodating needs of all the to specify only five categories of transgressions,
sects. as in other restraints, such articles were classified in following five categories. 1) Monetary wealth
Our kids are struggling to be Jains - not and grains, 2) Land and other real estates, 3) Swetambers, Digambers Terapanthis, Sthanavasis Gold and silver, 4) Other metals and articles of or whatever. We need to provide them with a daily use 5) Bipeds and quadrupeds. Laymen unified message as they prepare to take on the were therefore asked to avoid transgressing world. Let us free them of our emotional baggage. limitations laid in respect of those five categories. Please send your comments for constructive
discussion of what is confronting all of us. Since we happen to possess many more articles, | Dilipushah@aol.com we need to lay limitations on each of them. For this purpose it is not necessary to reframe the categories of possessions. The fourth category is broad enough to cover everything that is not specifically mentioned in other categories. By exclude the dealings with India. Now, if we lay laying limitations, a person decides to stay our limitation within a circular area with contented at certain reasonable level. He would Chicago as the center and distance from Chicago not hanker for gaining anything and everything. to Chennai (Madras) as radius, that would He would feel happy with what he normally practically cover the whole world except gets. It is also possible that he may reach the Southeast Asia, Far East, Australia, New targeted limitations and as such can stay totally Zealand, Antarctica, and some parts of Africa contented. And contentment leads to happiness. and S. America. In other words, it would almost
be impossible to lay uniform distance limitations Manubhai Doshi, Chicago, Il
on our dealings. This, in no way, means that this Manu Doshi <mansukhdoshi@yahoo.com>
restraint is only of academic interest to us. Since the purpose of this restraint is to curtail activities to the extent possible, we can lay different distance limitations in different directions. We
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