What is Jainism? ☸️ - The world's most peaceful religion?

What is Jainism? ☸️ Though less recognized in the Western world than Hinduism and Buddhism, the Jain tradition of India has provided invaluable wisdom for millennia. This tradition is renowned for its deep commitment to ahimsa or nonviolence, in thought, word, and action. 🪔As part of this commitment, the Jains established the world’s first known animal hospitals. Their strict vegetarianism has influenced Hindu and Buddhist practices, and the Jain principle of nonviolence significantly impacted Mahatma Gandhi ✨, who was raised in a region where Jain traditions were prominent. This presentation will start with an introduction to Jain philosophy and practice for those unfamiliar with the tradition, followed by an exploration of a unique Jain contribution to universal wisdom: the doctrines of relativity—anekāntavāda—which assert that reality is multifaceted, leading to the diverse perspectives and paths found in the world’s religions and philosophies. It will discover the Jain symbol and its meanings.🪔

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:10 Background and history
02:35 Understanding Jainism via Jain Symbol
04:02 The Three Jewels
06:05 Swastika
06:55 Ahimsa
08:15 The Theory of Karma
09:40 Monks, Nuns and Regular Jains
12:31 Anekantavada
13:28 Concept of God in Jainism
15:04 Religious Sects in Jainism
16:69 Outro

Sources:

✨Jeffery D. Long - Jainism: An Introduction J
✨Sherry Fohr - Jainism: A Guide for the Perplexed

Images were provided by @Canva.

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[Tomy-huqs]

I have great respect for Jainism they really care all leaving lives ❤ from Tommy*

[prajvaljainelkal]

जय जय जिनेंद्र I ಜೈ ಜೈ ಜಿನೆಂದ್ರ Jai Jinendra.

[kalpanadoshi]

Awsome video! well explained principles & practice of Jainism.

[cheche]

Love this! Thank you! Please consider explaining Ancient Egyptian / African spirituality soon🤗

[mason-xkx]

Awesome video! I would love to see you cover Animism, which was the belief of all the peoples of the world if you go back far enough, and was probably the belief held for the longest amount of time. Tens or hundreds of thousands of years. It was sort of a predecessor/set the stage for polytheism

[Kisscurl]

It did not emerge in 5th or 6th century BCE. Mahavir swami the last tirthankar of this second half cycle was born during that time. Jainism is an eternal religion and it is mentioned in Jain scriptures that the first Jain tirthankar of this second half cycle Lord Aadinath/Rushabhdev was born millions of years ago. One cycle has 48 tirthankars therefore it is an eternal religion and not just few thousand years old

[meetontheledge]

Trans theistic- a wonderful term to help others grasp some of Jainism and Theravada Buddhism. MLK was influenced by the Ahimsa of Ghandi! ❤ Truly a heroic path to aspire to.

[rishu-xgrr]

bro i am shocked jain also contain rama and krishna

[ndm]

The term Tirthankara is pronounced like “tear tan kara” the t and h are not pronounced like “thanks.”

[nothinghere]

One of the seven lampstands. Good religion.

[ruskinyruskiny]

Closest Western religious group is Friends (Quakers). Also Friends seems to be closest religous group to the ideals of Jesus Christ.

[malagainpaulsingh]

Don't let us compete and say which one is more peacefull or better don't dream of any kind of domin ancestors. ALL LIVING things must eat other living things to survive.We need to ruse above that stage where yogic mind becomes highly elevated it is fed directly by the cosmic soul and eating drinking is unnecessary. Autobiography of a Yogi mentioned is made of a mother Bala Giri who did not eat for many years.When you realise there's only you that exist there's no competition. THAT SUPREME BRAHMA ONLY ONE COSMIC BEING

[ariapinandita]

Could you also cover Aji Saka/Ajivaka/Ajivika's teaching like agama Sunda Wiwitan, Kejawen, Kapitayan belief? He is our unifying figure in Indonesia who introduced agama tirta (animism-dynamism), Saka calendar and aksara Hanacaraka/Javanese script. His birthplace is in Bumi Majeti/Kali Serayu river in Jambudwipa according to purwacarita (folklore)...
Thank you 🙏

Addition:
Somehow ahimsa teaching is very similar to eating beubeutian (ground tubers) custom in Sundanese tradition in Indonesia (West Java province)...

[ivanj.conway]

This actually, is the religion or Spiritual Path that should replace all the rest, though I cannot say I am able to adhere to all aspects of it. For one thing; I personally, believe that our Souls do not incarnate into any ole thing at all, but requires a worthy vessel for Soul Growth and Evolution. The human body may not be ideal for sure, but it seems to be one of the best this planet has to offer, at least. There may be a few other, reasonably, highly, evolved life forms on this planet that could be worthy vessels as well, but I'm not aware of any that can surpass the human form.

[lazerlloyd]

Osho was born into a Jain home I think

[Madasin_Paine]

Be Fruitful


&
Multiply

Emough.


Forgot?!


9-8 IS 1
Still.

All ways repeating

Better daily.


Good to Go.

🕯️

IMHO

[willieluncheonette]

"Thousands of people have come to me and gone. There was a time I was surrounded by Jainas. Unfortunately I was born in a Jaina family, so naturally my first audience was of Jainas. They were immensely happy because I was saying things which they had never thought about, I was interpreting their scriptures in a totally new way. They had great hope in me. They thought that...

Their religion has remained very small; it is the smallest religion in India. And it is the ancientmost religion--it is more ancient than Hinduism. But what calamity has happened? Even today there are not more than thirty-five lakhs of Jainas in a country of nine hundred million people. What has happened? Jainism is at least seven thousand years old--that is at least. It can be more, older, because in Harrappur and in Mohanjodro two ancient cities have been excavated, and Jaina statues have been found in those cities.

Now it is a scientific fact that those cities were destroyed somewhere between seven thousand and ten thousand years ago, and that is a very conservative estimate. But even if we take that estimate, in ten thousand years the population of the Jainas has remained negligible--thirty-five lakhs. That is not worth any consideration! That is why in the great religions of the world Jainism is never counted--never counted with Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism. They are great religions, and they are all very new as far as Jainism is concerned.

Because of my interpretations they had a tremendous hope in me, that perhaps I may spread their religion to the whole world, take the message to the whole world. But they were unaware--they were my first audience--they were not aware what kind of man I am: I cannot support anything which my heart is not ready to support.

So a few things I have supported in Jainism--people were very happy. But the moment I started telling about things which I cannot support, they were shocked. I have walked on their fingers. Just a small thing--which is so rational--and the Jaina community...their supreme command decided to expel me. I wrote a letter to them saying, "Don't be stupid. I expel you all from my life. You don't have to expel me; you cannot. I am no more part of you."

And what was the reason? I addressed a Jaina conference and told them, "You are the oldest vegetarians of the world. You eat the purest food, but you have not produced a single Nobel prize winner. What is your contribution to art, to music, to science, to mathematics, to painting, to poetry? What is your contribution to the world? There are the Jews who get forty percent of all the Nobel prizes, and the rest of the world has to live only on sixty percent."

And I told them, "The reason is--I have deeply enquired into the matter--that in vegetarian food something is missing which is necessary for intelligence. That is why you have remained retarded."

Vegetarian food is not complete, and particularly for intelligence certain vitamins are missing. Those vitamins can be found in meat. Certainly I cannot support non-vegetarian food. Even though it gives you better intelligence, it destroys your very soul; it makes you cruel, violent, inhuman.

So I suggested to them, "I have found something which should be immediately accepted if any intelligence is left in you, and that is eating eggs which are not fertilized, non-fertilized eggs. They are not living, there is no life. If you leave them they will simply rot and disappear. There is no life in them because the male sperm has not entered into the mother's egg; the mother has grown the egg without the male sperm. It is not alive, so there is no harm in eating it. It is vegetarian."

Suddenly they were very angry. I am suggesting for them to eat eggs, and they are afraid even to eat tomatoes, because tomatoes look like meat--just the color, poor tomatoes...How can they conceive of themselves eating non-fertilized eggs? Somebody stood up and said, "Maybe that is right that they are not living, but they are coming from animals."

I said, "So is milk; what is the difference? If you are avoiding anything that is coming from any living being, your children are from the very beginning against Jainism; they are drinking their mother's milk. And you are drinking milk"--and Jainas drink milk and milk-made products more than anybody. They cannot enjoy meat and non-vegetarian foods, so to substitute they have invented thousands of ways of delicacies made of milk products.

But the very word `egg' was enough for them to leave me completely; the Jainas disappeared. I was dangerous! I was teaching something that they have never done in ten thousand years. No scripture of theirs suggests anything about it. But they were absolutely unable to answer my questions--"If you are eating the purest food, your intelligence should have been the purest flame, the sharpest genius, the most creative, but it has not been so." And immediately--they had come to me because they thought I was supporting their system, but I am not supporting anybody's system--they disappeared....

Now the vegetarians are very much against me. They would like to kill me--although they are vegetarians. They don't want to kill anybody, but as far as I am concerned, they are ready to kill me: "This man is going to teach people to eat eggs.""

[winstonmiller]

Great vid.
But all these religious are a pain to find and follow one.

The best religion for liberation is; something with morality, some kind of dietary order, prayer for forgiveness each day, because you've got to breathe and eat and inevitably some little creature may perish unwittingly.

[OnlineMD]

Uhhh. Here we go with mispronounced Sanskrit words. Tirthankara is pronounced Theer-thunk-era. And not Tear-tunk-aara. But that said, the British are to blame for providing very poor and inadequate use of diacritics (accent marks) to help us pronounced Sanskrit words. The letter 'a' when extended, as in the word 'father' or 'far' was accented as Ā by the British but current dictionaries use Ä whereas the Ā is used as in 'Ate' or 'Date.'
My only other comment is about Ahimsa, or 'not-harming.' Sounds grand, but life has always lived by killing other life ever since life started evolving on earth. Jains don't want to taint their karma by ploughing the earth, but don't seem to care that the rest of us have to do so. Seems quite selfish to me. Humanity needs to approach life as one community. Without ploughing the land for grains, humanity would not have survived.

[roshands]

Pretty much similar to Buddhism but predates it.