Four Yogic Paths and Jainism Worksheet REL/133 Version 3

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Four Yogic Paths and Jainism Worksheet
Complete the table by comparing the forms of Hinduism and contrasting them with Jainism. Jnana Yoga Knowledge Yoga Explain the Meaning of the Name Karma Yoga Action Yoga Bhakti Yoga Devotion Yoga Raja Yoga Royal Yoga Jainism The part of non-violence

Explain the Basic Concepts

This type of yoga is good for priests and intellectuals. Knowledge is the means to achieve certain ends. This yoga pursues the true knowledge learning how to control our minds that we can become free from our bondage to the circle of the births and achieve liberation.

The basic concepts of this yoga are karma yoga is the total sum of our actions both mental and physical in this life and before. This yoga is service or selftranscending Action, whereby the yogi directs all actions towards God. By serving God and humanity (without selfishness, egoism, and attachment) the heart becomes pure, the ego fades and, over time, or even over many lifetimes, one becomes increasingly in tune and unified with God.

This yoga is devoted to god as the way to liberation. Seekers do not aim to realize that the self is the ultimate being that drives the universe. They attempt to lose their individuality in the infinite ocean of Gods being. Achievement come through love and devotion to god, not through reason.

This type of yoga is the path of God through experiments on the body and the mine

Jainism does not belief in the creator of god. Jainism acknowledge a three tier universe (upper, middle, and lower world). The universe is eternal and indestructible.

Four Yogic Paths and Jainism Worksheet REL/133 Version 3 Enlightenment (Samadhi, nirvana, union with God) is naturally realized through Karma yoga. This yoga practices through four means: Discrimination Detachment Six virtues Pain This yoga practices through: practice selflessness and nonattachment ( focus on the work and their actions and not on the consequences) This yoga practices through: prayer, love, and personal God. This yoga practices through 8 steps: Self-restraint Religious observances Posture Regulation of breath Abstraction of the sense Concentration Meditation Samadhi The goal of this yoga is to achieve liberation by realizing our true nature and overcome our ignorance The goal of this yoga is to perform without a desire for rewards and unselfishly. The goal of this yoga is not just only love Gods. But actually they are including love for lover, a parent or children. The goal of this yoga is achieved when through concentration and meditation, all separateness of the world of maya disappears and the unity of atman and Brahman appears.

Describe the Practices

Jainism concept is fasting, pilgrimage. They practice offered to both the tirthankaras and to deities. Devotional acts have a good effect on ones state of karma and that they focus the mind on saintly behavior The goal of Jainism is the liberation of the self from rebirth, which is attained through the elimination of accumulated karma

Describe the Goals

Write a 200- to 300-word explanation of the differences between Hinduism and Jainism. Hinduism and Jainism are very similar. Hinduism and Jainism are dress alike. This include ornaments, occupations and professions, games and amusements, language and literature, outlook on life and behavior, superstitions, beliefs and practices, religious festivals and fasts, sacraments and rituals, there are various common things between Jainas and Hindus, and especially the vegetarian Hindus, in various geographical regions of India. In fact there are certain castes whose members are found in both the Hindus and the Jainas and to some extent marital relations are still maintained between the Jaina and Hindu sections of the same caste. The differences between Hinduism and Jainism are scriptures, original of the world, and etc.

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According to jainworld.com, The sacred books of the Hindus like Vedas, Smrtis, Puranas etc. are not accepted by the Jainas and the Hindus also do not recognize even a single scripture of the Jainas. While the Jainas regard the world as eternal, the Hindus hold it to have been made by a creator. In Jainism, worship is not offered to an eternal and eternally pure God, but to those great ones who have realized their high ideal and attained Godhood for themselves; in Hinduism worship is performed of many forms of one God who is the creator and the ruler of the world. The significance of worship in Hinduism is also not the same as that in Jainism. In Jainism, there is no offering of food and the like, nor is a prayer made to the deity for boons. On the other hand, in Hinduism the attainment of the desired object is by the will of certain divine beings that are to be propitiated. As Hinduism is a sacrificial religion, the performance of several sacrifices for a variety of reasons and for different duration has got an important place in it. This is not the case with Jainism and especially the animal sacrifices practiced by the Hindus have absolutely no place in Jainism. While the Hindus believe that Gods alone can attain salvation, the Jainas consider that it is, the right of human beings only. The path of salvation prescribed by Jainism is only one and it is known as Ratnatraya-marga, i.e., the threefold path of Right Belief, Right Knowledge and Right Conduct, which is to be simultaneously pursued by all persons. But in Hinduism, there is no prescription of one single, definite and clear path of salvation. Instead, in Hinduism different ways have been laid down for the attainment of salvation by various religious preachers in different periods of time. The Hindus regard karma as an invisible power but the Jainas think it as a form of matter which can stick to the soul. In Jainism there are various concepts like dharma which are not found in Hindu spiritual ideology. In the systems of Jaina logic there are distinctive principles like Syadvada, Nayavada, Niksepa etc. which are not found in the Hindu system. According to Hinduism, the liberated soul enjoys eternal happiness in heaven or gets merged with Brahman i.e., the Primeval Being, the originator of the world. But as per Jainism, the soul after liberation remains for ever at the top of the universe. The Jaina deities, temples, places of pilgrimage, holy days, fasts, festivals, rituals and ceremonies are quite different from those of the Hindus.

References Zentrum Publishing. (1997-2012). The Six Yoga Systems. Retrieved from http://www.selfrealization.com/articles/yoga/yoga_systems.htm http://www.jainworld.com/jainbooks/antiquity/jainorel.htm