Dear Sadharmik brothers and sisters, !

JAINA wishes you all a very Happy and Peaceful Year ahead. Let us start our new year with the powerful Namokar and pray for everyone’s well-being.

Join us on January 3, 2021 at 7:30 pm PST, for a live Pravachan with Jain Ratnasundersuriji Maharaj Saheb on ‘Our Beloved Jain Shasan’ in Hindi. The session will have an inspiring discourse on ways and means of providing Seva to our Sadhu/Sadhvis followed by a questions and answers session.

Pritiben Khara from Southern California conducts virtual Yoga, Meditation & Pranayam classes for ladies of any age. This free classes are conducted thrice a week from 5:30 pm PST to 6:45 pm PST. Ladies from all the Jain Centers are invited to please take advantage of these sessions.

The 21st Biennial JAINA Convention Registration opens on January 8, 2021; allowing you to make your early registration at just $5. The first-ever virtual Convention will be held from July 1-6, 2021. For sponsorship opportunities contact conventionfundraising@.org.

JAINA is truly grateful to everyone who donated to the JAINA Vaiyavach committee to serve our Sadhu bhagwants. With the amazing community support, we have so far raised $580,000. Having said that, we are still raising funds for this huge project of building new Vihardhams. This is JAINA’s first initiative to fulfil our duty towards our Sadhus and Sadhvis. Please come forward and donate generously to this unique opportunity.

Like various Jain centers, the Jain Society of Metropolitan Chicago is celebrating Pos Dasam on January 8 and 9, 2021. They will have lecture series by Pujya Shri Jinchandraji Maharaj Saheb and will also have 108 Parshwanath Anushthan/pujan.

Are you ready for a spiritual revolution in 2021, the next lap of your evolution, a challenging call for a dynamic living? Find your answers in the encyclopedia of spirituality - Shri Atmasiddhi Shastra in English for Beginners. This 9-month course starts from January 1, 2021, and will be expounded by Pujya Gurudevshri Rakeshbhai.

This time, the JAINA Education committee blog answers an insightful question like how can we ensure that there is no gap between the tenets of and the way we practice it in our day-to-day life? And how can we bridge this gap where it occurs?

Watch the Mangal Paath video along with your children.

Join the global Jain Samayik Festival on January 3, 2021, by Akhil Bhartiya Terapanth Yuvak Parishad. The festival aims to bring all sects together and do Samayik on the same day and time.

JAINA women’s committee is bringing a new webinar on “Ayurvedic Tips for Healthy Living” for all.

Understand the simple science behind how the mind works in creating habits by Rahul Kapoor Jain.

Please see below for details or links if any on all the above items.

Sincerely,

Mahesh Wadher JAINA President

Let’s welcome the new year with: Live Pravachan by Acharya Shri RatnaSunderji January 3, 2021 7:30 pm PST, 10:30 pm EST

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During the absence of Bhagwan Mahavir Swami, for 21,000 years, Jain Shasan is presided by a "Nirgrantha Sanstha" of our reverend Sadhus and Sadhviji Bhagvants, who live a spiritual life, spread the nectar of Samyak Gnan, sow seeds of wisdom, and are the embodiment of Guru Gautam Swami.

Acharya Ratnasundersuriji Maharaj Saheb will speak to us via Zoom video conference on "Our Beloved Jain Shasan" in Hindi. In the first 20 minutes, Pujya Gurudev Shri will give a soul searching, motivational and inspiring discourse on ways and means of providing Seva to our Sadhu/Sadhvis, and later there will be questions and answers session on the same topic with Pujya Gurudev Shri.

Please email your questions in advance to : [email protected]

YOGA-MEDITATION-PRANAYAM FREE VIRTUAL SESSION

Pritiben Khara, one of the prominent members of Southern California has been conducting virtual Yoga, Meditation & Pranayam classes for ladies of any age. She conducts this classes thrice a week (Mon-Wed-Fri) from 5:30 pm PST to 6:45 pm PST.

Currently, these virtual classes are attended by 70 to 80 ladies from different parts of the world. She welcomes female members from all other Jain Centers to join and avail of her video sessions at absolutely no cost

Zoom Link to join Yoga-Meditation-Pranayam Sessions Password: 555400

Here is Pritiben Khara’s YouTube channel link where you can watch many videos on Yoga and Meditation.

@jainaconvention

PATH TO LIBERATION - JAINA VAIYAVACH COMMITTEE

Vaiyavach Sewa in the Jain religion is considered a solemn duty of Shravaks. Do not miss this opportunity. To attain Moksh, it is essential to accept monkhood and if one is not able to renounce the material world, he/she must at least accept monkhood in his/her heart and develop the highest regard for mendicants and be of service to .

With Gurubhagwant's Blessings, we are now at $580,000. Our goal for 2021 is One Million Dollars. JAINA is truly grateful to everyone who did their part in serving Sadhu bhagwants.

The fundraising is still on for all the project related to the “Vaiyavach” of Sadhus & Sadhvi Bhagwant of all sects. We plan to live broadcast a brand new play in Hindi on the previous life of Raja Kumarpal on Valentine Day – February 14, 2021. Please watch this place for more details.

CLICK HERE TO READ MORE ABOUT JAINA VAIYAVACH COMMITTEE

JAIN CENTER LATEST NEWS

Jain Society of Metropolitan Chicago is happy to announce Pujya Shri Jinchandraji's lecture series on January 8th and 9th, 2021 as part of the Pos Dasam celebration, Parshwanath Bhagawan's Janma & Diskha Kalyanaks.

They will also have 108 Parshwanath Anushthan/pujan on Saturday, January 9, 2021, at 8:30 am conducted by Dr. Harshbhai Dedhia. Find the registration details for Pujan. More details of Shri Jinchandraji's lecture series to follow.

RAJGITA - SHRI AATMASIDDHI SHASHTRA

Are you ready for a spiritual revolution in 2021? Shri Atmasiddhi Shastra in English for Beginners

Everybody exists, but only a few live. Are you ready for the next lap of your evolution? Are you ready for a challenging call for dynamic living?

Find your answers in the encyclopedia of spirituality - Shri Atmasiddhi Shastra, expounded by

Pujya Gurudevshri Rakeshbhai.

Transform yourself this new year!

Starting 1st January l 12:39 pm IST Subtitles available in Spanish and French

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"Realise One's True Self and Serve Others Selflessly"

JAINISM SAYS…

How can we ensure that there is no gap between the purpose of Jainism and the way we practice it in our day-to-day life? And how can we bridge this gap if it occurs?

This is a very insightful and useful question. The question itself challenges us to reflect on “being” vs. “doing” and be mindful of who we are becoming in process of all the “doing”. This kind of consciousness helps us in being aware of our internal bhaav (thoughts and intentions) and enables us to incorporate spirituality in all aspects of life.

Any activity which takes us closer to realizing our own true self is a religious activity and realizing our own true self is our religion.

When we understand the purpose of the religion, the core principles of the religion, and then practice religion through our activities, rituals, and traditions, then there is no gap. And we also end up attaining the spiritual benefits from the religion. However, the gap occurs when religion is practiced without proper understanding or reflection.

We will first look at the purpose of Jainism, core principles, and then talk about the gap. Read the whole article here.

MANGAL PATH

JAIN SAMAYIK FESTIVAL

Akhil Bhartiya Terapanth Yuvak Parishad once again brings Jain Samayik Festival (for all Jain sects) on January 3, 2021, from 9:00 am to 10:00 am IST. The festival aims to do a samayik, globally, on the same day, same time. More information is available here. Samayik Pledge and Registration details are here.

JAINA WOMEN’S COMMITTEE

JAINA women’s committee is bringing a new webinar for all. “Ayurvedic Tips for Healthy Living” The speaker is well known Ayurvedic medicine practitioner Dr. Vaijayanti Apte.

She is from Dallas, TX and practicing Ayurvedic medicine for last 40 years.

Please join us for this exciting educational meeting on the zoom.

Date: January 9 th , 2021 Time: 4PM - 6PM EST.

Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89139252447? pwd=UW1IZEhLSFdiUDU0RUZUUjFrbmh2dz09

Meeting ID: 891 3925 2447 Passcode: 729475

CREATING POWERFUL HABITS - BY RAHUL KAPOOR JAIN

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