Answer

No, loving your mother is not a sin in Jain Dharma.

Explanation

Jainism teaches respect, gratitude, and care for parents, especially a mother. Feeling deep love for her is natural and good.

What matters is the quality of that love:

• If it is pure care, respect, and gratitude, it is not sinful.
• If it becomes strong attachment, possessiveness, or causes unfairness, anger, or harm to others, then it can create karmic bondage.

So the simple answer is:

• Love for your mother: not a sin
• Clinging attachment that disturbs equanimity: can be spiritually limiting

Spiritual Understanding

In Jain Dharma, the goal is to reduce attachment and aversion, not to become cold or heartless. You can love your mother deeply while also staying calm, kind, and balanced.

A Jain way of loving is:

• with respect
• with compassion
• with duty
• without excessive attachment

Takeaway

Your love for your mother is not a sin. In Jainism, it becomes spiritually unhelpful only if it turns into attachment that binds the soul.