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JainPortal Global jainism portal - Understanding jainism and forming a global community. Enabling a soul to achieve its fullest potential. This portal is work in progress, for any feedback or if you want to become an editor to help out in effort please email jainportal.request@gmail.com This site is a wiki. You can contribute by authoring pages (Editing pages) The term Jainism which means faith of a Jaina is derived from the word Jina which means the conqueror or the victorious. Jina means who conquers the five senses, destroys all the karmas, and attains Omniscience or Sarvajnahood. The person who performs tapas or yoga attains such a self-realization and omniscient knowledge or kevala jnana. After attaining self-realization and omniscience, the Jina spends the rest of his time in preaching the Dharma to the mass of human beings, which would enable the ordinary mortals to reach summum bonum of life. Because of this noble task of showing the path of spiritual realization or Moksamarga, Jina is also called Tirthankara.

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