Thursday, December 21, 2023

Jainism , a review about my thoughts on this religion

A few decades back, i was falsely impressed about this faith just by looking at the beautiful temples that they build, and hence kept glorifying the faith at several times. But it is time that i share my updated views about Jainism sicne i had glorifed this faith some times back it is imperative that my updated views are shared here, with my current knowledge about jainism I no longer am a fan of this faith due to various personal experiences. I have been to a church, a mosque , a sikh temple , ofcourse hindu temples, a taoist and budhist temple, Japanese temples and Shinto shrines but i have never been to the Jain temple at a few metres away from my house.. why is it so? The only jain temple i may have visited is one in Maudi ( that was becasue some of my relatives went there in a group so it was sortt of an outing and if that maudi temple is jain tempel i think?? ) I am unable to find a scripture of jainism which is as wellknown as other faiths like hinduism has various scriptures, sikhism has gurugranth sahib, Christianity has bible, judaism torah , Islam has koran and so on, I am not sure what is the scripture that jainism follows besides the fact that they believe in ahimsa, dont have onion and garlic, beleive in colours, have various tirthankars and these line of tirthankars in my view includes prophet mohammed, buddha , bharat , mahavir swami and so on.. and then they follow the 5 principles of jinnah ( sometime i think is it jinna or the Jinn ( shaitan) of islam ) Any ways these are purely my own views and may or may not reflect reality, either i have changed or Jainism has fallen apart in the past few decades or my eyes are now open to what jainism is actually is Building beautiful temples is no sign of spiritual excellence, it only reflects the ccraftsmanship of the person making the temples ( who most of the times may not be jain) my views purely at the moment.