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Q: Tejas-Kāya, explain more specifically how it is meaningvin jain scriptures. And in which scriptures are they written down?
Answer Tejas-kāya in Jain Dharma means fire-bodied beings. In the Jain classification of life, it is the third of the six jīva-kāyas: earth-bodied, water-bodied, fire-bodied, air-bodied, vegetation-bodied, and mobile beings. Jain reference works explain it this way, and they also distinguish it from... Read More
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Q: So many granths don’t have detailed explanations in them and say it’s not clear due to passage of time does that mean there can be translation error in what we know and what actually is
Answer Yes, it can happen that a passage has some uncertainty in meaning, and that a translation or interpretation may differ from what the original intended.Explanation In Jain tradition, many granths are very concise, old, and composed in languages or styles that are not always easy to understand ... Read More
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Q: What happen whith the fire crwature if I light a candle, and after 2 hours ago I blow it out? Where do they come from, and where are they going after I blow out the candle?
Answer In Jain Dharma, a candle flame is understood to contain fire-bodied living beings called tejas-kāyika jīvas. When you light the candle, you are not creating them from nothing. The flame becomes a support for those subtle living beings.When you blow the candle out, the flame-form ends. Those b... Read More
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Q: If Jainism is not purush pradhaan then why aren’t sadhvijis allowed to read all the agams and other scriptures that only male sadhus read
Answer Jainism is not based on the idea that the soul of a man is higher than the soul of a woman. In Jain dharma, the atma is beyond gender. So the difference in scripture access is generally not meant to show spiritual inferiority of sadhvijis.Explanation There are a few important reasons this hap... Read More
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Q: Why is Jainism a purush pradhaan dharm
Answer Jain Dharma mool roop se purush-pradhaan nahi hai. Jain philosophy ke according aatma ka koi gender nahi hota. Moksh ka adhikar sirf purush ko nahi, stree aur purush dono ko hai.Lekin historical aur social level par kai baar sangh, shasan, aur public religious roles zyada purushon ke paas dik... Read More