When Bittideva converts to Hinduism from Jainism most of the jain temples were converted to Hindu temples or destroyed . Infact in beluru he spares only 5 temples so that his mother could pray 5 times a day .
This video offer a reasonable explanation as to why this temples were converted.
Most temples from badrinath to Madurai meenakshi were jain temples once upon a time . Best part of Jainism is UttamaKshama.
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Kharvela was a Jain emperor of Kalinga in the 2nd BCE. He is known almost entirely from the Hathigumpha inscription at the Udayagiri caves near Bhubaneswar.
The inscription opens with a salute to the Jain Namokar Mantra.
It gives a year-by-year account up to his 13th regnal year
He subdued a Magadhan king, and brought back the Kalinga Jina — an image of Rishabhanatha said to have been carried off by a Nanda king centuries earlier.
The work that Mehulbhai Jain and his team have done for Jainism is truly commendable. Jainism, Jain food, Jain literature have been presented in a simple language that people can easily understand by linking them with science. Not only in India but also outside India, he has brought Jainism to the Jain & non-Jain people through his videos.
Salute to him & his team.🫡👏🙏
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Tomorrow all the Jains and Hindus are gathering to raise their voices for the Repatriation of Ariha Shah to India. Request you to join the Rally
कोई आकर कहे कि आपके घर में आग लगी है तो? दौड़ पड़ोगे अब कुछ छोड़कर अपना घर बचाने. क्यों? क्योंकि आपको घर परिवार अपना लगता हैं।
जब जिनशासन पर आंच आए तब क्या करते हो ?
⚠️ एक बार फिर सवाल सामने है — क्या हमारा समाज सचमुच संगठित है?
पालीताना जैसे विषयों पर सामने आई परिस्थितियों ने एक बात फिर उजागर की है कि जैन समाज के पास आज स्थानीय से लेकर वैश्विक स्तर तक ऐसा सशक्त, समन्वित और स्थायी नेतृत्व/टीम नहीं है, जो आवश्यकता पड़ने पर पूरे समाज को एक दिशा में संगठित कर सके।
हम अक्सर WhatsApp पर चर्चा करते हैं, कुछ समय के लिए आंदोलन या मोर्चे करते हैं, आश्वासन मिलने पर विषय शांत हो जाता है और फिर हम अपने-अपने संसारिक कार्यों में लौट जाते हैं।
लेकिन भविष्य में यदि समाज के हित में कोई वास्तविक लड़ाई लड़नी है, तो केवल भावनाओं और तत्काल आंदोलनों से काम नहीं चलेगा।
हमें एक सक्षम, पारदर्शी और समन्वित टीम की आवश्यकता है—
जो छोटे से छोटे गाँव और मंदिर स्तर से लेकर जिला, राज्य, राष्ट्रीय और अंतरराष्ट्रीय स्तर तक जुड़े लोगों का नेटवर्क तैयार करे और आवश्यकता के समय पूरी शक्ति से समाज के साथ खड़ा हो।
👉 आज आवश्यकता WhatsApp की बहस की नहीं, बल्कि स्थायी संगठन और जिम्मेदार नेतृत्व खड़ा करने की है।
यह किसी व्यक्ति, संस्था या साधु-संत के विरुद्ध नहीं, बल्कि पूरे जैन समाज के लिए आत्ममंथन का विषय है।
🙏 समय रहते संगठित हों, तभी भविष्य में समाज की आवाज़ प्रभावी ढंग से उठाई जा सकेगी।
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China is "far ahead" of India is a myth. In terms of development and tech, yes they are ahead. But not "far ahead."
Most of China's tech are copies of US/European tech got by buying up companies, forced tech transfers, or outright stealing which India doesn't do.
Their fighters, engines, rockets, tanks - most are copies of Western/Russian tech. Sometimes part for part. 2000 years ago too they were good replicators, traveling thousands of kms to India to copy Indian texts on religion, science, philosophy, medicine. Commendable.
They do a good show with the robots and drones, producing them in numbers and deploying them publicly. But most of them are still behind what the US has. And all the tech was first innovated in the US/West.
They still assemble 80% of a smartphone "Made in China" from imported parts. They still rely on western tech for their chips. Yet, not a single Chinese will ever mock themselves as "only assembling." This is their strength.
Their AI models are definitely good, but most of them are distilled from western models, trained on illegally obtained sanctioned American GPUs, and lag in capabilities to frontier US models.
Their cities are definitely built to impress. But built by printing huge sums of money and taking large amounts of debt. And rebuilt from scratch razing down entire localities without any choice given to citizens.
Their development model is something a democracy like India simply cannot replicate.
When some in India compare some infra from China, as it is trend now, and mock India's, also ask them to say in the same sentence:
"Let's have a dictatorship, I am ready to go through a cultural revolution that destroys all dehati behavior including mine, I'm ready to leave my religion, and give up all I have to the govt to redevelop India."
They won't. But this is what happened in China before to get what it has now. Millions of historical books were burned, religions and local languages were destroyed, millions of dehatis killed, teachers were roasted and eaten, tanks rolled over protestors. Not a single thing I said in this para is an exaggeration.
And some of their practices like stealing tech and sabotaging others to rise, or use their women like assets to influence the weak western elites to gain from them are somethings India will never do.
Indians must get rid of this inferiority complex instilled into us by clever psyops and propaganda to disillusion us and derail our development.
India has long been the land of innovators and riches. A rich India shielded China from the worst of Islamic invasions and western colonialism.
China's "century of humiliation" they play up pales in comparison to 1000 years of oppression India faced destroying its culture, civilization, and capabilities.
Yet, India has risen up since independence, and even with a democracy where reforms can't be pushed through and no cultural revolution killing 30-40m, India has done well enough to keep up with China.
At present, if you look worldwide in developed nations where both Indians and Chinese migrate to, you will see Indians far outpace the Chinese in wealth, income, innovation, startups, leadership, politics etc. In every single nation. No exceptions.
Given similar opportunities, Indians and India will do extremely well. Indians do better than even natives while starting from scratch. And this is across castes, religions, and regions.
Come to a country like the US or take UAE - Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs, Malayalis, Punjabis, GCs, STs, Christians - every Indian group will have people who have excelled.
I am not saying the Chinese aren't capable or inferior. That's what they do to us trained by CCP's toxic supremacist propaganda. We don't need to be them. But every Indian must understand, India will quickly catch up and surpass China if it is allowed.
This is something many Indians do not realize themselves, but China and the US realize. They can already see an India doing wonders in development at current per capita. That's why they actively try to sabotage and slow down India.
You may be of any political ideology or religion or region in India, but you can't deny that India has been constantly attacked and sabotaged from rising up.
It was the British during Nehru, the Americans during Indira, and now China has joined them to derail, destabilize, and disillusion India during Modi.
Leave aside politics and you will see clearly outside interference and destabilization efforts on India since independence. From meddling in internal politics to creating protests to outright assassinations of our leaders and innovators.
So stop listening to these blackpillers day-in and day-out mocking India comparing it with China when it suits them. They themselves are puppets of a psyop and hence do it, but otherwise will say "India and China can't be compared. China's centuries ahead."
I agree India doesn't need to be compared with China. But not because China is centuries ahead (its more like 10 years now), but because India need not be China. India can be better and will be better.
And for that every Indian has to do their part without derailing and destabilizing everything in a fit of rage because somethings you want aren't happening soon enough and some are constantly telling you a revolution will sort out everything.
The revolution is already happening. Peacefully. The changes will happen, the country will rise, and it is inevitable if there's political stability and current pace of development, India will have much better cities, facilities, and reforms that all want.
JAIN MUNI HEMCHANDRACHARYA:
937 years ago, the famous Śvetāmbara Jain Acārya, scholar, poet, mathematician, philosopher, Yogi, grammarian, law theorist and historian Hemchandracharya was born as Changdev at Dhandhuka in Saurashtra in 1089 AD. He was given Diksha (initiation) by Acharya Devchandrasuri at Khambhat in 1094 AD. He was named Somchandra Muni. The Hemchandracharya University of Gujarat is named in his memory.
In 1110 AD, the famous Jain monk of Gujarat history, Hemchandracharya, was given the title of 'Suri' after obtaining eligibility for it. After that, he was known as Hemchandrasuri.
As per the book 'Prabhavakcharit', King Siddhraj Jaysinh Solanki, inspired by the book 'Bhojvyakaran', asked Hemchandracharya to write such a book in 1136 AD. So 8 manuscripts of various grammars were brought from the Bharatidevi library of Kashmir to Gujarat by order of King Siddharaj Jaysinh.
In the 12th century, Hemchandracharya wrote the famous book "Siddhahemshabdanushasan" on the basis of 8 grammar books brought from Kashmir to Gujarat. When Hemchandracharya completed the book "Siddhahemshabdanushasan", it was honoured by the Gujarat king Jaysinh by placing it on an elephant in a procession.
In the 12th century, the famous Jain monk Hemchandracharya wrote 'Trishashtishlakapurushcharit' and 'Yogshastra', containing 20 Vitragstuti at the request of King Kumarpal. He also wrote a detailed grammar of the Apbhransh language, from which the modern Gujarati language was born.
In the 12th century, the Sanskrit and Prakrit book 'Dwayashray' was written by Jain monk Hemchandracharya. It contains a detailed biography of the 12th-century, Gujarat's famous king Kumarpal Solanki.
Pictures of the 12th-century famous Jain monk Hemchandracharya, his disciple Mahendrasuri and Gujarat king Kumarpal Solanki are given in a manuscript of 1144 AD of Shantinath Bhandar (library) of a Jain temple in Khambhat.
In 1169 AD, Gujarat Solanki king Kumarpal rebuilt the Somnath temple and Kedareshwar temple at Prabhas Patan. King Kumarpal visited Saurashtra pilgrimage places, including Somnath, with the famous Jain monk Hemchandracharya, and he visited Saurashtra pilgrimage places 2nd time in the Jain Sangh.
Kalikal Sarvagna Hemchandracharya announced his death six months in advance and fasted in his last days, a Jain practice called Sallekhana or Santhara. He died at Anhilavad, Patan. The year of death differs according to sources, but 1173 AD is generally accepted.
I'm pleased and Impreseed with the faith and devotion of Japanese for Jain Dharma ✨
34 Japanese Citizens Observing the Paryushan Festival 🙌
Currently, 34 Japanese citizens are immersed in observing the Jain festival of Paryushan in Bhayandar. The group comprises 9 men and 25 women, including doctors, nurses, banking professionals, engineers, and students.
These individuals, who traveled from Japan to India to practice Jainism, state that the Navkar Mahamantra has transformed the direction of their lives. During the Paryushan festival, they are not only strictly adhering to all the prescribed rituals but have also completely detached themselves from mobile phones and other digital devices.
The journey of these Japanese citizens into Jainism began approximately 25 years ago. Churushi Miyazawa, a Japanese psychiatrist who speaks fluent Hindi, recounts that during a visit to India in 2004—when she was just ten years old—she was deeply moved by the Jain temples in Jaisalmer and the teachings of Jainism.
Miyazawa, a Buddhist by birth, describes her connection to Jainism and Acharya Jayantsen Surishwarji as feeling like an ancient spiritual bond. She claims to have seen the Acharya in her dreams even before meeting him in person; she was astonished by this coincidence when she finally encountered him physically. That marked the beginning of a spiritual journey that continues to this day.
Miyazawa explains that after understanding the meaning of the Navkar Mahamantra from her Guru, she resolved to propagate it in Japan. She has also translated 'Navkar Mahima' into the Japanese language.
अहो!!! जिनशासनम्…
धर्म से जैन नहीं, लेकिन कर्म से सवाया जैन ऐसे धानेरा नगर के निवासी श्री ओखाभाई गलाबाभाई राठौड़, जो हरिजन हैं।
उनके जीवन की तप आराधना परम पूज्य गच्छाधिपति आचार्य भगवंत श्री अभयदेवसूरिजी गुरु भगवंत की निश्रा में ५ अठ्ठाई पूर्ण हुई है।
पूज्य श्री दिनेश मुनि म. साहेब की निश्रा में वर्तमान में धानेरा में ५वीं अठ्ठाई तप की आराधना चल रही है।
पिछले २५-२६ वर्षों से रात्रिभोजन का त्याग किया हुआ है। कंदमूल का भी त्याग किया हुआ है।
१०वीं अठ्ठाई तप की आराधना चल रही है।
चातुर्मास के दौरान नित्य सामायिक एवं व्याख्यान श्रवण करने जाते हैं।
नवपद की ५ ओली कर चुके हैं।
ऐसे पुण्यशाली भाई की अनुमोदना करें…
खूब अनुमोदना 🙏, तपस्वी अमर रहो 🙏
जयवंत हो जिनशासन!
We co-operate with your festivals and lifestyles 360 days happily.
you couldn't do that for even 5 days
You are facing silent and loud atrocities from other communities but you spew the venom of jealousy at jains.
We are hurt, You have hurt our religious sentiments
Anyways 🙏
Spent some time with a Jain monk and he taught me a few things:
1. Forgiveness isn't a gesture, it's the highest spiritual power there is.
2. Detachment isn't leaving everyone behind. It's accepting everyone without being attached to any of it.
3. Compassion for every living being comes first. Everything else in life follows from it.
4. Every thought and intention you carry gets recorded, on your own soul, whether you notice or not.
5. Human life is the only place you experience both extremes fully, and the only place liberation is even possible.
Wishing everyone observing Paryushan right now a peaceful and reflective few days.