What do Jains believe?

Answer 1

What do Jains believe?


The goal of the Jain religion is to achieve liberation from the cycle of birth and death. Jains believe that an immortal and indestructible soul resides within every living being. Under the influence of passions such as greed and hatred, the soul comes under a complex web of karma, or the past deeds of the soul, and suffers repeated birth and death. The effects of karma can only be overcome when the soul achieves liberation.
The Three Jewels
While every Jain should seek liberation, the path to liberation is a very demanding one that is achieved by only a few. The ideal for most Jains is therefore to live a good life in this world, by practice of the Three Jewels:

right knowledge: understanding how karma binds the soul
right faith: belief in the essentials of Jainism
right conduct: adherence to the five vows

The five vows
Jains believe that to attain spiritual advancement one must follow the five vows:

Non-violence: (Ahimsa) not giving any harm to any creature – Jains are strict vegetarians
Truthfulness: this includes avoiding saying what would be painful to others
Non-stealing: this includes avoiding greed and exploitation
Chastity: celibate monks and nuns are given great respect in the Jain tradition
Detachment: since the pleasures of this world are viewed as illusion, Jains try to limit their attachment to them

Answer 2

Jainism
Jainism is a religion of India founded by Mahavira around the same time the Buddhism was founded, during the 6th century BCE (although term Jain does not appear until the Common Era). Like Buddhism, Jainism was a reform movement which arose as a reaction against contemporary ideas of gods and in the direction of relegating gods to lesser importance.

Thus, like Buddhism, Jainism argues that salvation must be achieved by the independent work of the person and without the help of any gods. Jainism does teach the existence of the soul, called jiva, which is by nature pure and seeks ultimate truth (kaivalya). Unfortunately, the karma which envelops the soul hinders this quest. Only a few Jains become monks, which requires a lot of work, but lay Jains still must follow several rules. The most important rule is non-injury, ahimsa. It is, in fact, an ideal ofr Jain monks to ritually starve themselves to death in an effort to harm absolutely nothing - no animals, no plants, and not even microbes.

Answer 3

Some of their highest leaders and god Bahubali believes in nudity.
This will certainly attract the Naturists, I'm sure.
There are very respectful of all creatures however small. They will not eat anything that grows underground (e.g. potatoes) as getting these out will result in the death of little creature in the soil.
They are the most peaceful people I know.

Answer 4

Try here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jainism

Answer 5

Jains love and put their trust in Jesus!!!!! Jesus it the only way to God!!!! Amen!!!