Jain Study Center NC Raleigh 1997 11 YJA Regional Convention

Author(s): Jain Study Center NC Raleigh
Publisher: USA Jain Study Center NC Raleigh

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The Four-Fold order:
Monks and Nuns (ascetics)
They practice self-control and have given up all desires, earthly possessions, and family and become the spiritual practicers and teachers. They follow strictly five maha-vrats.
Sravaks and Sravikas (lay followers)
They are not required to renounce the world, but are expected to discharge household duties by honest means and live a progressive pure life. They follow the twelve vows of lay people.
Quotable Quotes
We should be able to refuse to live if the price of living were the torture of sentient beings.
--Mahatma Gandhi
The highest religion is to rise to universal brother hood, aye to consider all creatures your equals.
--Guru Nanak
Let us pray that our food should not be colored with animal blood and human suffering. --Chitrabhanuji
Animals are our younger brothers and sisters, also on the ladder of evolution but a few rungs lower. It is an important part of our responsibilities to help them in their ascent, and not to retard their development by cruel exploitation of their helplessness.
--Lord Dowding
The misery we inflict on sentient beings slackens our human evolution.
Sympathy for the lowest animals is one of the noblest virtues with which man is endowed. --Charles Robert Darwin
--Dr. Annie Besant
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