I have noticed that the major restaurants do not seem to cater for vegans. I thought that sending this letter would be a good way to find out whether I have misunderstood and also raise awareness that staff cannot always answer questions like these, which makes it very difficult to Read more…
What kind of bhavanas should one have? One should entertain and expand auspicious and useful thoughts. One should not allow one’s soul to get entangled in the various materialistic events taking place around oneself. What is the purpose of bhavanas? Bhavanas enable people to attain mental peace, tranquillity, and spiritual Read more…
Taken from Green Events Date: Monday 08 Sep 2008 to Monday 20 Oct 2008 Description: Seven evenings of soulful singing with a true master of Indian Raga. Venue: West London Contacts: Stelyana 07817 247 243 E-mail: stelyana@spassova.fslife.co.uk Web Address: www.thesingingheart.com
The Jain community like other communities throughout the world celebrates several social and religious functions annually such as Diwali and the superb festival of “Paryushan Parva”. Paryushan Parva’ (“Paryushana”)is one of the most important Jain festivals and is celebrated every year during the auspicious month of Bhadrapad’ (mid-August to mid-September Read more…
Are you vegetarian? Are you sure? Are you Jain? Do you give things up for Paryushana? Do you use white sugar? Can’t do without it huh? Brown sugar can’t be used in everything. It’d make some of ‘our’ dishes turn out to be the wrong colour! Right? So again, I Read more…
Sometime between August and October followers of Jainism partake in Paryushnaa. A lot of the ‘younger’ folk don’t fully understand what we are supposed to do or why. Hopefully this should explain some of it 🙂 Michchhami Dukkadam is usually said when we ask for forgiveness. People do this as Read more…
This has been taken from the website called Not Milk. I have broken the letter up as it’s quite long and very rich in terms of what we need to know. Small doses may help in terms of taking it in. Thus I’m going to produce a series of posts Read more…
