SRS 2113 Study Guide - Ajiva

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: SRS 2113
• Professor: All

Document Summary

The came from the same place in india as well: jina= one who conquerors the self (passion, ego, pride, ahimsa paramo dharma nonviolence is the supreme dharma (path, duty, religion , focus on non violence, grounded in a basic intuition that (hinsa) or violence is contrary to our true spiritual nature, verbal abuse, words, is also violence to them, the idea is to minimize violence, jains call this intuition =samyak darshana (spiritual awakening), most animals apparently don"t have the samyak darshana it can be within the nonhuman realm but usually not. Jain dharma: true self= trans cosmic, goal is release (moksha, we are stuck in samsara because of violence, violence is all mental, emotional, verbal and physical forms of harm and attachment. (boyfriends, friends, family , they try to change their name, beg for food, and try to have no attachments at all, minimizing attachment, minimizing violence, world renouncer tradition.