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Browse in-depth articles on auspicious days, sacred festivals, spiritual concepts, and Vedic observances across Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh, and Jain traditions — explained clearly in 28 languages. Free reading.
Ahimsa, declared the supreme dharma in the Mahabharata, is the discipline of non-harm in body, speech, and mind taught by Yoga, Jainism, and the Gita.
Anekantavada is more than Jain metaphysics. It is a daily discipline of speech and listening, carried from the Tattvartha Sutra into the modern Anuvrat movement and practiced today in disagreement.
The twenty-four Tirthankaras in order, stories of the faithful, the teachings and the practices: forty-two Jain stories arranged in four groups.
Mahavir Jayanti marks Mahavira's birth on the bright thirteenth of Chaitra. This article sets out the day, what the Kalpa Sutra tells, and where the traditions differ.
The Navkar Mantra bows not to any single personality but to the virtues of the Five Supreme Beings, the Pancha Parameshti revered across all of Jainism.
The holiest Jain festival of the year — eight to ten days of fasting, scriptural study, and self-reflection, culminating in Samvatsari and the universal plea for forgiveness, Micchami Dukkadam.