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The Lord Mahavira is a beneficence and so is the chief disciple Gautama. Adepts Sri Sthulibhadra and others, Sri Kundakunda and others are a beneficence and so is Jaina religion also a beneficence.
May all be happy; may all be without any adverse disturbance whatever. May all see and attain that which elevates them and may not anyone feel unhappy.
I wish I had friendship with all beings, a feeling of joy at the virtuous, and of compassion and sympathy at those who are in pain. I wish I had a state of complete equality and harmony and therefore peace in all events, things and situations, even those adverse to me.
Dear brothers and sisters and dear children of all ages,
These are the every day prayers of a Jaina, a word derived from Jina, the one who is a conqueror, mind you, not a controller or a suppresser, if these can make clear to you the fine distinction. A Jaina's conquest is a conquest over himself in the battlefield of life, not eliminating life as is done in ordinary battles but of effecting a complete transformation thereof into its purest state, the state of Samyaktva in its totality, the state of Siddha, the Unmanifest Divine. A person fully transformed and of the highest quality of mind and spirit and of even beyond mind and spirit as manifested or manifesting, who has purged off all karmas and safely crossed the ocean of life and birth and has thus established a ford for others to cross the ocean, made a Tirtha i. e. a supreme holy place wherever he has moved or become a Tirtha himself is termed in Jaina parlance a Tirthankara. Jainas believe that 24. Such Tirthankaras lived on this earth during this present half of the one whole cyle of time who from time to time explained and interpreted Jainism. These Tirthankaras are Jainas'
Jainism time is never linear, it is always cyclic as has been now accepted by Modern Science. The last of these 24, was born in B.G. 699 in Kundingram near Patna, Bihar, North Eastern India. His name was Vardhamana (continuously growing and making everything else grow at the same time);
