Jainism
Jainism
Thursday, January 28th, 2010 at 12:31 am
Bhagwan Mahavira, the last of the series of 24 Tirthankara, preachings were mainly focussed on ahimsa, non-voilence, the main basic principle to be followed in Jainism.
The first of the series of 24 Tirthankara, Rishabdeva, to the 23rd Tirthankara, the Jainism and it’s teachings did not exist and dormant, it was when Bhagwan Mahavira,the 24th Tirthankara started to grow the roots of Jaiism through his teachings about the principles of jainism. The bottom line was the 24th Tirthankara, Mahavira laid the foundations of Jainism and shed light on all the teachings preached right from the first Tirthankara.
[Old Lakshmeshwara Jain Temple]
The life is not just the journey and that we are taking it as it comes without knowing our goal. Once we recognise the objective and the supreme eternal happiness we can easily traverse the path to reach the goal without any difficulty.
The great enlightened ascetic and the Guru Mahavira born nearly 1000 years after the Dwaparayuga, the golden era when Lord Krishna presented his valuable teachings of Bhagavad geetha to the world.
Mahavira, who very well red and understood all these preachings became an enlightened ascetic and preached 15 fundamental principles to be followed to attain eternity and reach God. These fundamental principles were found to be very difficult to assimilate at that time and the people thought its very difficult to attain the eternity and follow these fundamental rules.
[Ranakput Adinath Temple]
If we speak about modern times, the current situation, we feel it’s harder and nearly impossible to attain the level of swami Vivekananda then just think of reaching the level of Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa or the Swami Mahavira itself.
It was Bhagwan Mahavira who preached the principle of unity and liing in harmony. It was him who taught that a wild animal can always live in harmony with a domestic animal. Well, to be honest, what is life without the practices of Ahimsa, the non-voilence as the saying “ahimaso paramo dharma”. It was this Dharma that enabled Mahatma Gandhi to secure independence to India from Britishers.
The other important principle that Mahavira taught was unity in diersity called Anekantavada. If a person is standing in the first step he will be called to “come down” by the person standin one step lower to him. The same person recieved the statement to come up by the one standing above him Though both tatements are contradicting they both proved to be true depending on the perspectives and the logic behind the one stating them.
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