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SPIRITUAL DISCIPLINE AND
PRACTICES IN JAINISH
Dr. Bhag Chand Jain
Spirituality is the essence of spirit or self or ultimate reality in being which comprises of right knowledge and right conduct in its relation with the universe. It is beyond the physical or material world and therefore is immanent. It is called adhyatma (pertaining to self) in Sanskrit. Spiritual knowledge of the self or Atma requires its realization that one has capacity and aspiration to attain the highest and ultimate truth. Spirituality needs spirit in its purity which can be achieved only by an inwardness, intuition and mysticism. Ultimate reality is related to world until one reaches ultimate spiritual destiny. Therefore there is significant relationship between human and pure spiritual and natural and super-natural power.
An empirical man is expected to follow the auspicious qualities or values and ethics and morality which are intimately related to the ultimate. Ethics is man's intellectual search for conceptual knowledge about the good' and morality is essentially merely a mode of personal and social conduct. Both these together help a man to reach ultimate reality.
Spirituality, religion and philosophy are intimately connected with each other. The word "Religion" is derived from the latin verb "religare" i.e. to bind which means religion is to impose duties that bind and requires observance on the part of its adherents. It has a wide sphere for the
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