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Gestes in you greed, gluttony and selfishness; the sharing of what you have with others, saints and sinners alike-Atithi. samvibhag-and the daily practice of meditation, taking a little time of a few minutes off before nightly retiring for introspection when you also think about what you have to do the next day: Always remember what Jainism forcefully insists upon: the promised land of the spirit begins from the frontiers of worlètly enjoyments.
It is rightly said, "Great religions must be renewed by the intellectual and spiritual attainments of their adherents, otherwise they die. Each Age needs renewal, re-statement and re-interpretation of the religious traditions but only rarely does religion produce a creative genius, some one who not only travels along secure and well-trodden paths but also reaches out into the unknown, explores new territories, scans new horizons, undertakes the difficule, dangerous and thankless task of challenging established dogmas and practices. Only rarely does a man arise whose devotion and dedication to his religion is matched by his determination to extend its domain into new areas of thought and action, even areas con sidered to be outside the pale of established religious rituals, practices and observances.".
"We live to day", in the words of Prof. Capra, in his latest book "The Turning Point", 1982, "in a globally interconnected world in which biological, social, psychological and environmental phenomena are all interdependent. What we need to-day is new paradigm- a new vision of reality, a fundamental change in our thoughts, perception and values and the beginning of this change are already visible in all fields. As individuals, as a society and as a planetary civilization, we have now arrived at the turning point.
Jainism as a set of principles is little known to its followers and non-followers alike. The understanding of its principles require a very high degree of intelligence and therefore the followers genet ally know more of its rituals and rites, ceremonials and laudatorý prose and verse compositions, the dogmas and the recitations to Tirthankaras and its pantheon of lesser gods in reality only higher elemental beings rather than its complicated structure laying down
