The Principle of Right Conduct

The Principle of Right Conduct is about aligning our actions with principles values, living life of truth, non-violence and discipline, not just in words but in deeds.

✓ Ethical Decision
    Making ethical choices over shortcuts.

✓ Trust and Transparency
    Delivering on promises. Avoiding unfair practices. Maintaining transparency and honesty in all business dealings.

✓ Consistency
    Acting with integrity. Consistently adhering to ethical principles and promises made. Demonstrating reliability and dependability.

✓ Compassion
    Acting with compassion and empathy towards all stakeholders.

✓ Non-Violence
    Minimizing harm to others and the environment in business operations.

✓ Sustainable Business
    Prioritizing to minimize negative impact of business operation on the environment and economy with aiming long-term profitability and positive impact on society.

✓ Right Perspective
    Gaining wisdom through right perspective.

✓ Principal Value
    Letting our values guide our ventures.

✓ Economic Success
    Success earn with integrity is success that sustains.

Ethical Living Code

Ethical living code prescribes five Main Commitment and seven Supplementary Commitment, which include three Merit Commitment and four Disciplinary Commitment.

Main Commitment
1. Non-violence : Commitment to limiting harm to living beings, including plants, animals and microorganisms, following lacto-vegetarian diet, avoiding violence in thought word and deed and advocating for non-violence towards oneself and others.
2. Truthfulness : Commitment to speak truthfully and avoiding falsehoods.
3. Non-stealing : Commitment to avoid cheating and dishonest practices.
4. Chastity : Commitment to practicing self-control and abstinence from sensual pleasures.
5. Non-possession : Commitment to limiting attachment to possessions and material things to reducing greed.

Merit Commitment
1. Limited Area of Activity : Commitment to limiting travel and avoiding exposure potential harm to nature.
2. Limited Use of Consumables : Commitment to practice moderation and restricting the use of consumable and non-consumable items to prevent the accumulation of unnecessary items.
3. Avoiding Harmful Activities : Commitment to mindful behavior and minimizing actions that could lead to harm or negativity.

Disciplinary Commitment
1. Meditation : Commitment to practicing meditation for 48 minutes each day and maintaining spiritual purity and cultivating inner peace.
2. Limited Duration Activity : Commitment to limiting activities and movements for a specific duration, reducing the scope for violence and accumulating karma by restricting exposure to the external world.
3. Self-Discipline : Commitment to observing limited time fasting, meditation and other ascetic practices.
4. Limited Charity : Commitment to sharing resources, offering food, clothing, medicine, shelter, and other necessities to ascetic and the needy with respect and love.

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Supreme Self-Discipline

Supreme Self-Discipline is about practicing 10 days ascetic life annually.

Day 1
Supreme Forbearance
✽ Letting go of anger and resentment.
✽ The forbearance protect commitment, conduct, renunciation and truth.
✽ In forbearance lies the best protection of our life, wealth, success and self-discipline.
✽ Winning over the enemy hate is supreme forbearance.

Day 2
Supreme Modesty
✽ Cultivating a modest and humble attitude.
✽ Modesty is the ultimate ornament.
✽ The origin of all virtues and erudition is modesty.
✽ Only a man without arrogance is the candidate for acquiring knowledge.
✽ By experiencing the difference between the spiritual soul and passion of pride, getting rid of pride is virtue of modesty.

Day 3
Supreme Rectitude
✽ Being honest and truthful in thoughts, words, and actions.
✽ Rectitude is the best sign of virtue.
✽ Righteousness in mind, thought and action is a sign of rectitude.

Day 4
Supreme Contentment
✽ Maintaining cleanliness of mind, body and possessions.
✽ Contentment means purity piousness.
✽ Contentment is akin to purity and piousness.
✽ Purifying consciousness of deceit and greed leads to Supreme Contentment.
✽ The whole world considers such a contentment person as sacred.

Day 5
Supreme Truth
✽ Speaking the truth and avoiding deception.
✽ Truth is the best virtue of all, the very basis of all faith.
✽ Truth lies all-encompassing love, faith and belief.
✽ All virtues are inherent in the truthful.
✽ Truthfulness gains acceptance from everyone in the world.
✽ Embracing virtue of truth is in the best interest.

Day 6
Supreme Self Restraint
✽ The Sacrifice desire and regains self restraint.
✽ The doctrine of sacrifice lead to infinite bliss.
✽ Embracing Supreme Self Restraint virtue.

Day 7
Supreme Austerity
✽ Practicing self-discipline and renunciation.
✽ Austerity is a process of separation of passion from pure knowledge & perception bearing soul and that is the Supreme Austerity.
✽ Austerity is the way to control the desire.
✽ The stoppage and shedding of karma can be achieved through austerity.
✽ Austerity frees the soul from karmic dirt.
✽ Austerity brings exaltation.

Day 8
Supreme Renunciation
✽ Controlling one's senses and desires.
✽ The fulfillment of five abstinence, five disciplines, three restraint, repression of four passions, and conquering five senses as the virtue of renunciation.
✽ Only Renunciation benefits the soul.
✽ Renounced soul is free from all evil.
✽ Renounced praised by all.

Day 9
Supreme Possessionless
✽ Minimizing attachment to worldly things.
✽ The supreme virtue of non-attachment or non-possessiveness on all material thing other than emphasizing only own soul and own knowledge truely belongs to self.
✽ All material things are insentient.
✽ The doctrine of Supreme Possessionless leads us to the liberation.

Day 10
Supreme Celibacy
✽ Controlling sense pleasures desires.
✽ To forego all interest in sense pleasures and meditate on divine wisdom.
✽ Celibacy encompasses all the attributes and celibate conquers objects of five senses.
✽ Celibacy escape us the clutches of prevalence of violence.
✽ Sensual attachment is a sin.

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Nine Supreme Head of the Universe

Nine Supreme Head of the Universe are Arihant, Siddha, Acharya, Upadhyaya, Muni (Sadhu) & Aryika (Sadhvi), Samyak Darshan, Samyak Gyan, Samyak Charitra and Samyak Tap.

To honor Nine Supreme Head of the Universe the Nine Supreme Self-Discipline is practiced.

Nine Supreme Self-Discipline is about practicing 9 days austerity life semi-annually and the penance of controlling taste to purify mind, body and soul by consuming only once a day plain unsalted and oil-free boilded grain for nine days.

Day 1
Arihant
✽ Arihant is a perfected soul.
✽ Arihant is the supreme power of nature.
✽ Arihant is the purest soul in the univese with a physical body.
✽ Arihant is free from earthly attachement and hatred.
✽ The symbolised colour of Arihant is white.
✽ The white colour denotes peace and Non-violence.
✽ The fast-day meal is plain, unsalted and oil-free boiled white rice.

Microorganism

✓ Non-Violence: Minimising violence against microscopic life.

The microorganisms is lowest forms of invisible life reside in endless numbers and without any hope of release by self-effort.

Single root vegetable is infinite-bodied plant, contains with infinite microorganisms, infinite lives and infinite microorganism souls.

Consuming a root vegetable plant cause the destruction of countless microscopic life forms within a single root vegetable plant which leads to significant violence and negative karma. These single root vegetable host infinite life forms and cutting the entire root vegetable plant upon harvesting before completing their life-cycle, makes a violence.

Single root vegetable have infinite lives even after cutting plant or even after dried it. The dried root vegetable have countless microscopic life. Consuming even single dried root vegetable leads to significant violence of killing countless microscopic lives which leads to negative karma.

Committed not to prefer consumption of root vegetable to avoid mass violence of killing infinite microorganisms

Single fruit and vegetable grown above ground are one-bodied plant, contains only one microorganism, one lives and one microorganism soul.

Single fruit and vegetable grown above ground have only one microorganism even after cutting plant or even after dried it. Single fruit and vegetable grown above ground have only one microscopic life even after dried. Consuming fruit and vegetable grown above ground leads to less violence.

Committed to prefer consumption of fruit and vegetable grown only above ground to minimise violence.

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A Lifetime Motto

To follow preaching of the Arihant.

To shravana the discourses of Muni (Jain Sadhu), Aaryika (Jain Sadhvi), Upadhyaya (Jain Spiritual Teacher) and Acharya (Jain Spiritual Master).

To conquer own inner passion, inner desire and inner enemies.

“It is better to win over self
than to win over a million enemies.”
- Vardhamana Mahavira

“Jai Jinendra!”