Jains Through Time

Author(s): Shilapi Sadhvi
Publisher: Veerayatan

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that assurance is that the divine bonds by the unselfish practice of tapa. consciousness in human beings must assert 5. Provide shelter and support for the itself in the face of evil and suffering. Today, helpless and the homeless. our once pious land is threatened by abject 6. Actively give education to those who poverty, rampant disease, mass illiteracy, loss lack it or are deprived of it. of civility and an onset of insensitivity, 7. Always be ready and willing to serve the corruption and moral degradation. Can we sick. then neglect or disregard the call of the 8. Settle disputes, differences of opinion and Abhiyutthan-pada? Can we ignore the voice disruption with mutual understanding of our own conscience? The answer has to and kind feelings towards each other. be an emphatic "no"! Veerayatan offers a solution that wells up from the heart of These teachings of the Ashtapadi of the ancient Indian tradition.
Sthanang-Sutra are the true highway to
attaining liberation through the spiritually The lessons of the futthan-pada' being motivated actions of this earthly life; they taught by Acharya Shri Chandana Shriji are are uplifting, universally understood and are simple, universal and practical. They are not also the common pathways on which many only tire cream of the traditional teachings, people, in the social fabric of their lives, find but also the precepts for facing new true happiness and well-being. This is the challenges on new frontiers.
way of selfless action. The joy obtained from Briefly, the lessons of the ‘utthan-pada' are: giving, and the consistency maintained 1. Listen to the most splendid voice of between the relinquishment of possessions dharma
and the enjoyment of one's non-possession 2. Practise the best of dharma.
is the reward of that righteous path. Along it 3. Intercept the influx of papa-karma by we will find the source of energy that observing maximum abstinence.
enables us to make acquisitions and keep 4. Prepare to dissolve the existing karmic them secure by giving selflessly and acting