Jain Prayers

Author(s): Sima Sheth, Vastupal Parikh, Anne Vallely, Prakash Mody
Publisher: Prakash Mody

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1.
Ten Commandments of Tirthankar Mahavir
All living beings long to live.
Live and let live. Love all serve all.
2.
3. Where there is love there is life.
4. All Souls are alike and potentially divine, none is superior
or inferior.
5. Have compassion towards all living beings; hatred leads to destruction.
6. As I dislike pain, so do all other beings dislike pain.
7.
A person need not kill, nor cause others to kill, nor consent to killing by others.
8. Silence and self-control amount to non-violence.
9. Respect for all living beings is non-violence.
10. Non-violence is the supreme religion.
Comment:
P, J, I, S
Mahaveer (Mahä= great, Veer= brave) (599-527BCE), was the twenty-fourth Tirthankar (Omniscient), who set the faith afresh.
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