The Three Jewels, otherwise known as the Ratnatraya, are a key to living live Jainism. Every religion has a variation of these three ideals, a collection of ideals to live by, and this is the Jain one. The Three Jewels are Right Vision, Right Knowledge, and Right Conduct.
Right Vision
Right Vision, or Samyag Darshan, is the first Jewel of Jainism. Right vision describes holding your views of the universe in the right light, and to believe in the Jain ideals of the universe. You must accept what is believed, with the existence of living and nonliving objects, belief in the seven fundamental’s effect on the soul, and to trust Jain Prophets.
While this is what you are supposed to do, there is another side, what you should not do. You should not accept false deities, you must reject the untruth, and you must practice much skepticism to ensure you only accept the facts.
This ideal is very important to the Jain culture, as it helps the individual in various ways. It provides spiritual calmness (prasanna), desire for liberation (samvega), non-attachment to the world (nirveda), kindness (anukampa), and belief in fundamentals (astikya).
Right Knowledge
Right Knowledge, or Samyag Gyan, is the second Jewel of Jainism. This Jewel goes hand in hand with the previous one, right vision. Right Knowledge is just that all knowledge you contain should be preceded by right vision. No knowledge should be held contrary to the first Jewel. In addition, all knowledge should help you in some way, to help you understand an object’s “true nature.”
Right Knowledge helps Jainism by providing the people with sensory (mati), study (sruta), clairvoyance (avadhi), telepathy (man prayaya), and omniscience (kewalya).
Right Conduct
Right Conduct, or Samyak Charitra, is the final Jewel of Jainism, and arguably the most important. The first two Jewels deal with the physical world, and help people see the world for what it is, but right conduct is what unites them with life to tell one what to do. The primary goal of a Jain is to become completely dis-attached to anything, and requires you to think first of all action, and prevent them if in any way inappropriate, to eliminate any activity you are passionate about, and to, in the end, become non-attached to all, and completely pure.
Simply put, this last Jewel deals with how you shall act, and you shall censor yourself with self discipline against overindulgence and over attachment of anything, leading you directly to purity.
Right Vision
Right Vision, or Samyag Darshan, is the first Jewel of Jainism. Right vision describes holding your views of the universe in the right light, and to believe in the Jain ideals of the universe. You must accept what is believed, with the existence of living and nonliving objects, belief in the seven fundamental’s effect on the soul, and to trust Jain Prophets.
While this is what you are supposed to do, there is another side, what you should not do. You should not accept false deities, you must reject the untruth, and you must practice much skepticism to ensure you only accept the facts.
This ideal is very important to the Jain culture, as it helps the individual in various ways. It provides spiritual calmness (prasanna), desire for liberation (samvega), non-attachment to the world (nirveda), kindness (anukampa), and belief in fundamentals (astikya).
Right Knowledge
Right Knowledge, or Samyag Gyan, is the second Jewel of Jainism. This Jewel goes hand in hand with the previous one, right vision. Right Knowledge is just that all knowledge you contain should be preceded by right vision. No knowledge should be held contrary to the first Jewel. In addition, all knowledge should help you in some way, to help you understand an object’s “true nature.”
Right Knowledge helps Jainism by providing the people with sensory (mati), study (sruta), clairvoyance (avadhi), telepathy (man prayaya), and omniscience (kewalya).
Right Conduct
Right Conduct, or Samyak Charitra, is the final Jewel of Jainism, and arguably the most important. The first two Jewels deal with the physical world, and help people see the world for what it is, but right conduct is what unites them with life to tell one what to do. The primary goal of a Jain is to become completely dis-attached to anything, and requires you to think first of all action, and prevent them if in any way inappropriate, to eliminate any activity you are passionate about, and to, in the end, become non-attached to all, and completely pure.
Simply put, this last Jewel deals with how you shall act, and you shall censor yourself with self discipline against overindulgence and over attachment of anything, leading you directly to purity.