Jain Digest 2005 01

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

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Anarthadand Virmanvrat....
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Make any recommended changes as per city code requirements. 7.7 Invite bids for contracts for design and architecture work. 7.8 Review and make necessary changes for architecture work after discussing with community addressing religious requirements. 7.9 Invite bids for construction costs as well any subcontractors you plan to hire. 7.10 Invite bids if you plan to get any marble work done in India 7.11 Consider owner built option.
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8.0 Temple opening & Pratistha:
8.1 Develop a detail plan for Pratistha. 8.2 Pratistha planning should begin at least 9 months before temple completion for a smooth and successful Pratistha. 8.3 Ensure that city permit is acquired either temporary or permanent prior to Pratistha. 8.4 Invite city and planning commission members or mayor of the city at all major events and invite scholars and Pratistha vidhikar and Sadhus to perform the Pratistha ceremony well in advance. 8.5 Make sure your Maintenance, or Management and Pujari positions are already filled.
excessive concerns that make us to forget our real Self. Such forgetfulness is, in a way, the worst type of violence, because that violates the true nature of soul. That should therefore be avoided under all circumstances.
The fourth aspect pertains to the modes of entertainment. We, the laymen are not ascetics. We therefore seek worldly pleasure from different sources. Availing of the pleasure is not objectionable as long as it is derived from innocent means. But at times, we stoop to lower level for getting or extending the enjoyment. For instance, we may indulge in pornography, vulgar talks, crude jokes, etc. for the sake of entertainment. Such aspects are really not pleasurable. Only an illusory sense of enjoyment is experienced from the excitement that such talks or shows arouse in our mind. Similarly showering of undue praise on others also provides a low type of enjoyment to the patrons, who feel elated by such flattery. Some people also happen to cherish violent games like cock-fights, bull- fights etc. Many sensible people happen to shudder, when they learn about the role of gladiators during the Roman times. They however forget that wrestling, boxing and some aspects of football game come close to that Roman practice. Spiritually oriented people would find it hard to understand how anything, that causes mental defilement or physical violence, can be pleasurable. This restraint therefore lays down the avoidance of all violent and low types of entertainment
The last aspect of this restraint is to maintain deadly or violent weapons. Such maintenance is obviously fraught with dangers. Aside from the possibility of such weapons being wrongly used or of their accidentally hurting someone, their maintenance itself causes violent feelings. The person holding a sword or gun, for instance, tends to use the same with the slightest excuse. We also come across reports that some child out of curiosity triggered a gun and shot someone. Such violence can be easily avoided by not maintaining those weapons; and if their maintenance is necessary under some exceptional circumstances, they should never be kept handy.
Maintaining such weapons also gives rise to the occasions of lending the same to other persons. If those persons happen to use the same for hurting others, we become, legally as well as morally, liable for causing the violence. Inciting others to use violent weapons also comes within this category. These implications of keeping deadly weapons also apply to other equipment capable of causing violence.
It would be seen that all these aspects of violence can be easily avoided without sacrificing our usual comforts. So, the house holders can observe this restraint without any default. Like other restraints, however, the tradition lays down five types of possible transgressions of this restraint, viz. i) sensuous entertainment, ii) crude jokes and laughter, iii) purposeless talking, iv) keeping deadly weapons ready, and v) attachment for the lower types of enjoyment. If one happens to indulge in any of these transgressions advertently or inadvertently, he should earnestly atone for the same.
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