Jains Through Time

Author(s): Shilapi Sadhvi
Publisher: Veerayatan

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She reflects on the endless possibilities for now', and by calling upon everyone to the Jain tradition in the future. In doing so, respond, Acharya Shri Chandana Shriji, she uses Time in its trikalvarti existence as eloquently articulates the imperative need her 'medium'. In her brilliant and stirring for enlightened action. She offers selfless words, she has summoned up our suppressed action at the feet of tradition by blowing the ‘present in the battle for the liberation of conch shell of sincerity and submission. She the individual and of society from the makes her own spiritual experience the agonies of this world and the next, and has touchstone for defining Jainism and invited one and all to join the Jain humanitarianism by using logic, careful renaissance.
discernment and the sacred scriptural words
of the Realised Ones. This outcome of her The inspiring image of Veerayatan clearly constant contemplation is echoed in the shines through the teachings of Shri Amar Ashtapadi of the Sthanang-Sutra, and she Muniji in the second section and through makes a determined effort to engrave this the glowing tribute by Sadhvi Shri Sadhnaji philosophy on the psyche of contemporary in the third section. These writings illumine Jain society through teaching the section the pathways of reflection and guide us to called discipline', in the ‘utthan-pada', not action in response to our human and social merely by sermonising but by providing a obligations
practical and shining example of these
precepts for one and all. The vast and fathomless ocean of current and ancient Jain tradition has been In the Geetopanishad, Lord Krishna extensively and scientifically filtered to reassures the world and proclaims: encapsulate the quintessence of truth in the “Whenever dharma is neglected on the fourth section. By giving us the mantra: earth, I shall return in every age and destroy utthiē no pamāyaē - Arise, awake, and neglect the evil and evil-doers, and establish not your duty. Make an effort here and dharma." The meaning and the message of