Jainism is one of the world’s oldest religions and has two major ancient sub-traditions, Digambaras and Śvētāmbaras. The religion has between four and five million followers, mostly in India. Outside India, some of the largest communities are in Canada, Europe, and the United States.
About Jainism in brief
Jainism is one of the world’s oldest religions and has two major ancient sub-traditions, Digambaras and Śvētāmbaras, with different views on ascetic practices, gender and which texts can be considered canonical. The religion has between four and five million followers, mostly in India. Outside India, some of the largest communities are in Canada, Europe, and the United States. Jain Dharma is growing in Japan, where more than 5,000 ethnic Japanese families have converted to Jainism in the 2010-2020 decade. Soul doctrine differs between Jain and other Indian religions, but is accepted as a truth in Hinduism, but not as truth in Buddhism. Jains believe that the universe is made up of six eternal substances: sentient beings or souls, non-sentient substance or matter, principle of motion, the principle of rest, space and time. The latter five are united as the ajiva. Jianism is transtheistic and forecasts the universe evolves without violating the law of substance dualism, auto executed through the principles of parallelism and interactionism. The true insight in Jain philosophy is considered as faith in the tattvas. For most Jain laypersons it is to accumulate good karma that leads to better rebirth and a step closer to liberation. According to Digambara Jains, there are seven tattvas: the sentient ; the insentient ; bondage of karmic particles to the soul ; stoppage of karic particles ; wiping away of past karmIC particles ; and liberation.
The spiritual goal in Jains is to reach moksha for ascetics, but for most Jains it is for them to accumulategood karma to lead them to mokshas. The concept of the Saṃra is the conceptual framework of the next spiritual potential in the Jain religion, which is the rebirth of the soul in the next rebirth. The Saṉa is the framework for salvation, and is the basis for Jain belief in karma and karma. Jaining is a religion of vegetarianism, which has affected Jain culture in many ways, such as leading to a predominantly vegetarian lifestyle. It claims that the vibration of the body fills up the body with material bodies and adds demerit to the body, where it entirely fills up as the body. It also claims that it is a material substance that can bind the soul, and affect the suffering and happiness experienced by the jiva in the jokas lokas. Karma is believed to obscure and obstruct the innate nature and striving of the Soul, as well as its potential potential in its next rebirth in rebirth. It is also believed that the soul is bound to the material substance, and can travel with the body in a bound form to the next reincarnation. The Jain dharma traces its spiritual ideas and history through a succession of twenty-four leaders, with the first in current time cycle being Lord Rishabhanatha.
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