Friday, April 23, 2010

Mahaveer Jayanti

Most important festival of India, and very significant festivals of Jains. This festival is celebrated in the month of March and April every year. Lord Mahaveer was born on this day, he was the founder of Jain religion . On this very pure and divine day people go to temple to perform prayers, they worship tirthankars along with their religious Gurus like acharya bhikshu, acharya 108 Sri vardhamansagarji muni maharaj ,mahapragji and , swasti sri charukeerthi bhattaraka swamiji, .

Lord Mahaveer

Mahaveer Jayanti is celebrated with full enthusiasm and joy all over the India, people from all parts of the country come and visit Girnar palitana in Gujarat,Parshwnath temple in Calcutta. Lord Mahaveer is the son of Trisala and Siddhartha, his father Siddhartha a king of kundalpur.Queen trishala was known as priyakarni..Their is a story behind as Lord Mahaveera left his palace, parents, friends and money.

He gave up all his wealth and beacame a monk, lord Mahaveer gave up all his wealth to the poor and the needy, ,he sacrificed his life helping those who are in need, he went to Jungle, Lord Mahaveer was very kind and his nature was very simple, his life was very pure and simple, he followed the path of truth and lived his life with full honesty .

Lord Mahaveera has a view people can take their souls and make them more near to the god by practising non violence, Jainism has two sects shvetambaras and the digambaras, further divided into deravasis and sthanakvasis, the Deravasis worship statue of Mahaveer and Sthanakvasis believe on internalisation of the faith.On Mahaveer Jayanti people from Jain community form parties and various type of programs are to be organised by them.

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