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According to Jainism, there are ten vitalities or life-principles: The five senses (touch, taste, smell, sight, hearing) Energy. Respiration. Life-duration. The organ of speech. The mind. According to major Jain text, Tattvarthsutra: "The severance of vitalities out of passion is injury".
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Main articles: Ahimsa in Jainism, Vitalism (Jainism) According to the Jain texts, the vitalities or life-principles are ten, namely the five senses, energy, respiration, life-duration, the organ of speech, and the mind. The table below summaries the vitalities, living beings possess in accordance to their senses. In the animal world, the five-sense...
Main article: Tattva (Jainism) Jain philosophy postulates that seven “tattva”(truths or fundamental principles) constitute reality. These are: 1. Jīva-The soul substance which is said to have a separate existence from the body that houses it. Jīvais characterised by cetana (consciousness) and upayoga (knowledge and perception). Though the soul expe...
Main article: Ratnatraya According to the Jain philosophy, the world (Saṃsāra) is full of hiṃsā (violence). Therefore, one should direct all his efforts in attainment of moksha. According to the Jain text, Tattvartha sutra: 1. Right Faith (Samyak Darśana)means belief in substances like soul and non-soul without delusion and misapprehension. 2. Righ...
Main article: Dravya (Jainism) According to Jainas, the world is composed of two different kinds of substances, the Jīva (conscious) and the ajīva (unconscious). These are the uncreated existing constituents of the Universe which impart the necessary dynamics to the Universe by interacting with each other. These constituents behave according to the...
Main article: Karma in Jainism In Jainism, karma is the basic principle within an overarching psycho-cosmology. It not only encompasses the causality of transmigration, but is also conceived of as an extremely subtle matter, which infiltrates the soul—obscuring its natural, transparent and pure qualities. Karma is thought of as a kind of pollution,...
Main articles: Jain cosmology and Jainism and non-creationism Jain cosmology denies the existence of a supreme being responsible for creation and operation of universe. According to Jainism, this loka or Universe is an uncreated entity, existing since infinity, immutable in nature, beginningless and endless. Jain texts describe the shape of the Uni...
Main article: Jain epistemology Jainism made its own unique contribution to this mainstream development of philosophy by occupying itself with the basic epistemological issues, namely, with those concerning the nature of knowledge, how knowledge is derived, and in what way knowledge can be said to be reliable. Knowledge for the Jains takes place in...
Main article: Ethics of Jainism The Jain morality and ethics are rooted in its metaphysics and its utility towards the soteriological objective of liberation. Jaina ethics evolved out of the rules for the ascetics which are encapsulated in the mahavratasor the five great vows. These ethics are governed not only through the instrumentality of physic...
Atomism
The most elaborate and well-preserved Indian theory of atomism comes from the philosophy of the Jaina school, dating back to at least the 6th century BC. Some of the Jain texts that refer to matter and atoms are Pancastikayasara, Kalpasutra, Tattvarthasutra and Pannavana Suttam. The Jains envisioned the world as consisting wholly of atoms, except for souls. Paramāņus or atoms were the basic building blocks of matter. Their concept of atoms was very similar to classical atomism, differing prim...
Jainism had a major influence in developing a system of philosophy and ethics that had a major impact on Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. The scholarly research and evidences have shown that philosophical concepts that are typically Indian – Karma, Ahimsa, Moksa, reincarnation and like – either have their origins in the shramana traditions or were propa...
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Jainism or Jain Dharma, is an ancient Indian religion. Followers of Jainism are called “ Jains “, a word derived from the Sanskrit word jina (victor) and connoting the path of victory in crossing over life’s stream of rebirths through an ethical and spiritual life. Jains trace their history through a succession of twenty-four victorious ...
Jainism (/ ˈ dʒ eɪ n ɪ z əm / JAY-niz-əm), also known as Jain Dharma, is an Indian religion.Jainism traces its spiritual ideas and history through the succession of twenty-four tirthankaras (supreme preachers of Dharma), with the first in the current time cycle being Rishabhadeva, whom the tradition holds to have lived millions of years ago, the twenty-third tirthankara Parshvanatha ...
Jan 11, 2019 · Devotional music in the early Jain tradition. For contemporary Jains, the Sakra Stava is a daily hymn and it is the mythological source for Jain bhakti.In it, Sakra, better known as Indra, the king of Gods, celebrates the birth of each of the twenty-four Jain spiritual masters or Jinas.
- Bob van der Linden
- 2019
Vitalism is a slippery beast, a contested discursive and doctrinal terrain, perhaps a ‘family resemblance’ word. To some, particularly in the Anglophone humanities world, vitalism is a doctrine which invokes ‘unfathomable life’ as ‘raw, unverbalized, lived experience’ capable of resisting ‘the petrification of social forms and personalities…sedimented categories and schema ...
Apr 22, 2023 · Jainism- A Non Voilent Religion. Musik And Dance In Jainism Having come to Jainism via Theravada Buddhism, a creed that leaving aside the monotonous chanting of the monks - permits of no music in its temples. And as in my readings about Jainism I have never come across a comprehensive evaluation of Jaina music, I concluded that there was.
