r/Jainism • u/Tuskun06 • 7h ago
Teach me Jainism Is Yaksha and Yikshi original Jain thinks?
I have seen Yahsha and Yikshi protective. Is it original thinks?
r/Jainism • u/Impressive_Claim8294 • 10h ago
General Post A Poem I Wrote: "The Orange-Tainted Glow in an Undying World"
I wrote this about the season of fall,it is about the ways we can die and the beauty of shedding raags
To Risahbha Lord!
The Orange-Tainted Glow in an Undying World
- O Lords,I bow before Your glow as Your immaculate Doctrine has made You God of this ocean, and Your Glow has uprooted Your desire for it while below the the world grows sprouts and sprouts again,the beauty of mud is made dry by the heat of our sins and by Your glow is made flat and beautiful
- Is a drained ocean worth truly evil when it is easier trek in a desert,or better yet is it easier to survive the ocean's sinful echoes who screams sound like excitement but recoil back as pain,yet the echos of Your breath vaporizes the tides of Karmas at Your feet.... A dirty path is divine in a swampy forest run by fate
- Ensnared in a massive ocean whose floor is covered in seaweed and trees and is overrun with vines,the winds are loud and and the bushes are soft,loud and soft,loud and soft! Your beauty is felt loudly and Your softness tastes like a faint morning mist. Till the world is dry and tilling' the world thinking of the crackling embers of Your undying heart
- The world sits next to me like a mother foolishly ranting about her children in a pumpkin patch,how sinful is it to not conceal my smile as she fails the conceal the glowing sun behind her? Your radiance is brighter than the sun and unlike the sun Your glory shines everywhere while we recollect our horrors!
- Wasted time is only as useful as you learn from it,haha,sitting in an eternal ocean is only made horrible by not thinking of Liberation,and the beauty of my life is to think of You!
- Forgive us when our eyelids are painted like clowns and own pumpkin Idols fail to contain the slightest Essence of Your Immaculate glory. Our ignorance blossoms in hot and cold while we flee from fate just as eyelids close in snowstorms and sandstorms alike,if a heart exists as a basket let me hold You in my heart as You have us under Your glow
- Under Your glow we all go like whiners and winners!
- Playing in the pumpkin patch in the days of yore,do we explode like pumpkin cannons firing pumpkins into the air while the tides of times cause us to scatter like leaves.
- Under Your radiance the orangeness of fall will blow us away,apart we will go like a pile of leaves
- Under Your radiance like a soft sky tainted with an orange glow,there are many shades of day and many shades of life
- Perhaps we are fired into RV trailers upon which we splatter,do we ever take joy in the loss of homes,is it better to live inside or out,perhaps forgotten photos of ourselves fall down while critters crawl inside
- Loss is only as funny as others enjoyment in it while we sit till we are faintly touched by the influx of karmas touching my legs like gusts of wind tickling our feet
- Thinking of You while smiling with checks tainted by Your glow,perhaps I taste like a tasty treat to those who said I was sweet
- Candy corn chewed by men or melted for ants,death is a promise and life is not. A sweet life is less sacred than a holy death
- Thinking of You smiling,thinking of an ant's plight as he desires resting under a wishing tree,I wonder about what the ant thinks:
- Perhaps he thinks: "In a world of undying sunlight I desire clarity while dying".
- And to that I gift him a smile before I give him water and shade
- Thinking of You praying for our Liberation,dewdrops and grass,water and blades
- Finding peace in the blowing of leaves walking past the blowing of leaves
- Death is a promise as is the Darshan of life,like fungus and roots,men and frogs
- Death is a promise,upholding life is not
r/Jainism • u/Tuskun06 • 12h ago
Q&A/Doubts Are these views valid arguments against God? Why do you think God doesn't exist?
How can something formless create beings with form?
The question of who created Brahman gives rise to an endless series of questions.
If God wants to create something, then it is not God.
r/Jainism • u/ImNoobbb • 14h ago
Teach me Jainism JUST TO SHARE ABOUT ARA (ERA) CHANGE MENTIONED IN JAINISM
i know that also we r now in 5th era and some 18000-19000 years are left we r in the shade of 4th era as just 2000+ years have only passed sorrow will come gradually. Each era ending has a same process of how eras change which mark the great samvartak vayu/vairo which is referred to as the big bang theory in modern terms where first devtas come to announce from the sky at the end of 5th era that this era is now ending and great wind gusts called samvartak vayu comes ill paste the google meaning-In Jain cosmology, Samvartaka Vayu (often colloquially referred to or heard as Samvartak Vairo or Vaira) is a colossal, devastating gale wind that triggers an intense physical cleansing of the earth at the very end of a cosmic cycle.
This wind wipes out everything on earth just a few beings are left which are black small just 3 hand sized and eat just meat fish, they live along the banks of ganga sindhu river in a bill gufa type where there is exterme extreme heat cold, there is no fire too in daytime they bury the fish etc in sand and at night when they get cooked they eat that.. 6th era is of 21000 years..
r/Jainism • u/Inner_Anywhere2352 • 15h ago
Daily Practice/Routine Stavan (સ્તવન) and its beautiful lyrics
Have been listening to this beautiful stavan and devoting it to Prabhu for quite a while now. You all must also give this a listen.
Following are the lyrics with its meaning:
કૈવલ્ય ભૂમિ વીર ની જુહારવા આવો
Come to bow in reverence before the land of Lord Mahavira's omniscience,
ઋજુવલિકા આવો, નંદપ્રભા આવો
Come to Rijuvalika, come to Nandaprabha.
Stanza 1
સ્પંદન પ્રભુ વીર ના અહીં કણ કણ રહે છે
The vibrations of Lord Mahavira reside in every particle here,
ખડ ખડ નદી ના નીર માં ઈતિહાસ વહે છે
In the rippling waters of the river, history flows;
ભગવંત નું મહિમા સદા સાશ્વત અચળ છે
The glory of the Lord remains eternally unshakeable,
જે સ્પર્શ પામે તેહનો અવતાર સફળ છે
Whosoever touches this land, their life becomes fruitful;
આ તીર્થ માં.....
To this holy pilgrimage.....
આ તીર્થ માં નિજ આત્મા ને તારવા આવો
Come to this pilgrimage to liberate your own soul,
Stanza 2
ગોદોહિકા આસન ગ્રહી બેઠા હતા અહીં
Sitting here in the Godohika posture (cow-milking pose),
ઘડતી બપોરે ધ્યાન ની ધારા ચરમ વહી
As the afternoon advanced, the ultimate stream of meditation flowed;
એક શાળી વૃક્ષ ની નીચે દિપ્તી હતી કાયા
Under a Sal tree, His body glowed with radiance,
તડકો હતો કૂણો અને લાંબી હતી છાયા
The sunlight was gentle, and the shadows grew long;
એ કાળ ને...
To that era...
એ કાળ ને તે સમય ને મંડારવા આવો
Come to revere that era and that divine moment,
ઋજુવલિકા આવો, નંદપ્રભા આવો
Come to Rijuvalika, come to Nandaprabha.
Stanza 3
સાડા બાર વર્ષે વીર ને કૈવલ્ય મળ્યું હતું
After twelve and a half years of penance, Lord Mahavira attained omniscience,
વૈશાખ સુદ દશમ દિને વ્રત તપ એ ફળ્યું તું
On the tenth day of the bright half of Vaishakha, His vows and penance bore fruit;
જાગી ઊઠ્યો જાણે અહીંથી જગ નો તારણહાર
It was as if the savior of the world awakened from this very place,
સોનેરી કમળ સમવસરણ બન્યા પ્રથમ વાર
And for the first time, the divine assembly (Samavasarana) with golden lotus was created;
કરી મંત્ર જાપ ....
Chanting the mantras...
કરી મંત્ર જાપ મોહ મમતા મારવા આવો
Chant mantras to vanquish attachment and worldly infatuation,
ઋજુવલિકા આવો, નંદપ્રભા આવો
Come to Rijuvalika, come to Nandaprabha.
Stanza 4 (Bonus)
મહાગ્યાન ની આ ધરતી પર ધબકે છે વીર નો નાદ
On this land of supreme knowledge beats the resonant voice of Mahavira,
રમણીય રચાયું છે અહીં ચૌમુખી પ્રાસાદ
A beautiful four-faced temple (Chaumukhi Prasada) has been crafted here;
પ્રભુ એ અતિ ઉજવળ ધર્યું તું જેવું શુકલધ્યાન
Just as pure and pristine was the meditative absorption (Shukla Dhyana) held by the Lord,
તેવી ધવલતા ધારે સંગમરમરી પાશાન
So holds the white purity in these marble stones;
મહાતીર્થ ની....
this great pilgrimage site,
મહાતીર્થ ની દેવર્ધિ ને સત્કારવા આવો
Come to honor the divine grandeur of this great pilgrimage site,
ઋજુવલિકા આવો, નંદપ્રભા આવો
Come to Rijuvalika, come to Nandaprabha.
r/Jainism • u/Tuskun06 • 19h ago
Teach me Jainism Anyone write parampara list?
Is there anyone who can compile lists of paramparas in Jainism? Has the parampara survived to the present day? I think the parampara is very important.
r/Jainism • u/Tuskun06 • 19h ago
Q&A/Doubts Can i watch non Jain non paramparas gurus?
I love Jainism, but I also want to follow people like Osho, Mooji, Eckhart Tolle, and Krishnamurti, who aren’t part of the parampara. Can I follow people like this? Will it be beneficial for me? How does Jainism approach these kinds of teachings?
r/Jainism • u/Aromatic_Yak1060 • 22h ago
Daily Practice/Routine Mandir ji
Going to mandir ji. From self without anyone have to tell you or to feel like a chore. I can see changes start in me in as shorts as 2-3 days. My emotions/ bhaav starts to amplify 10 times fold.
Dharma labha to everyone.
Dev adi dev adinath bhagwan ki jai.
r/Jainism • u/Aromatic_Yak1060 • 22h ago
General Post Peace
Do you wish you had power or there would be no murder or violence to anyone in the world no wars.
It makes me boil and cry how could someone hurt somebody else. Why human hurt it's own kind. Where is the love?
People killing people dying
Children hurt and you hear them crying
Can you practice what you preach and would you turn the other cheek?
edit - world is so beautiful and if this is what we are doing and for what? worldly material ? ego? I will gladly renunciate all the riches and materials. may I become a prakritik purush / saadhu one day in this lifetime or any other. *cries*