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The five vows that a Jain takes to guide their lives (only monks keep the last two).
- Avoid bringing harm to any living creature
- Always speak the truth
- Refrain from taking anything that is not given to you
- Renounce all sexual pleasures
- Renounce all attachments
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| Non-injury to all life, necessary to find release |
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| The founder of Jainism. He left his wealth and family behind to pursue a life of asceticism to reach enlightenment. |
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| The process of self-denial and self-immolation, to attain enlightenment. |
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| Transcendence of the endless cycle of life and death, the ultimate goal of the three religons |
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| The endless cycle of life, death and reincarnation |
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| The duties in life one must preform in order to achieve moksha |
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| Rebirth into a new life after you're death. It is the ultimate goal of all three religions to escape this. |
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| The weight of one's past actions on one's soul that binds one to samsara. It must be overcome by doing you're dharma. In Jainism, it represents itself as the ajiva (matter) binding one's soul (jiva) to the earth. In Hinduism, this is the weight of one's past actions, while in Buddhism it is also the desires of people binding them to the earth |
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| A teacher, a spiritual guide |
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| The one, true reality. The life force that surrounds everything and is everything. He is seen as three different forms of functions. After achieving moksha, a person becomes one with Brahman |
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| Love, one of the four goals of life |
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| Worldly status, accumulation of wealth and power, one of the four goals of life |
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The social order of Hindu society developed by the gods. People must fufill their dharma within their class in order to aquire good karma for the next life.
- Teachers, Priests
- Warriors, Rulers
- Traders, Merchants
- Manual Workers
- Untouchables
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