Why do we suffer?
Spiritual awakening
Suffering is beneficial for spiritual awakening fasting and meditation as a form of suffering teaches you to appreciate what you have and dedicate yourself to awkning.
Some say suffering is the loss of prossetions and relations and that is what jain monks and nuns do to dedicate themselves to reaching the siddha-loka. This is being wihtout attachment or self indulgence. self incued suffering to find enlightenment.
Jain asceticism is depriving yourself of food in the form of fasting and not connecting to worldly possetions in the form of not wearing clothes and only carrying around a small bowl and broom.
Result of sin and action of a sinner
Natural and god willed concequesces are the result of sinning.
A test for your faith in your god and their actions
Slaves in jerusalem before getting a message from god and having moses lead them to safety on the other side f the ocean. This was to show them the power of god and test their faith after they suffered form the brutality of egypt.
God is not perfect and it is fruitless to know god will for the world
Omnipotent god
The jain people believe that there is no one creator god that has created the world. To explain suffering they believe that there is no stop to suffering because god he didn't create suffering so he can not end it. If god is wholly god why is their suffering?
The jinas are sometime regarded as god however they did not have affect on the world they have simply reach the siddha-loka the highest of the heavens. Jians and not god they are simply perfect human beings.
The residential school
Since the nation-states of Norway, Sweden, and Finland first began settling Sapmi, the Sami have been removed from their land, stripped of their culture and made to believe that they were inferior
In an effort to eliminate Sami culture, the church and the governments controlling Sapmi established boarding schools whose sole purpose was to properly assimilate Sami children into the majority culture,the christian faith.
Are naturally good or or evil
Neutral karma for enlightenment
All jain people seeking enlightenent are not good or evil they wish to have neutral karma. If they are good and have good karma they are reecarnated into a good life however they are still rencarnated.
Naturally neutral with the will or body of god in us as his creations
Born with both good and bad inclenations for life even though we are of sin we can be forginven for our actions
Jewish people wlive that they have a sprak og gud in then aking them partly devine that they have ifinate worth in the eyes of god. They belive no person should be treated as a object and attempt t see the humanity in eveyrthing and everyone.
The awarness of the fact that we all have an ordered place in the infinate universe. We can be upfliting for other oud us and we can be uplifed by the earth and the harmon if being aware that gid is in ou lives.
Judaism
Jainism
Sammi Religion
Who created it, is it sacred and living?
The jain people believe that not one god created the world that it was always there and that it will continue to always be there.
If there was one true omnipotent god then why would he want to create humans? How can one person be all knowing and creating everything from their own mind? With what material if he is a cosmic being of the universe how did he creat the world.
The jain people believe that these questions can be answered by the simple fact that there is no all creating god he simply does not exist we have always been here and always will but our souls may escape.
Creating of the world in gods eyes
God created the world in his mind's eye and established natural law and the moral and religious law from his religion.
Adam and Eve were the first humans created by god in the garden of eden. In the book of genesis, on the sixth day and gave him the rule of all his other creations. He mad eve from the rub of adam as the mother of all humans.
God forbid adam and eve from eating the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil. After they disobeyed him he cured them to live in the world and with mortality.
The sacred earth
The Jewish people believe that they must take care of gods earth and the Torah specifies that humans should take care of other species of animals and give all thing dignity in life and death.
The earth is living all plants are living and in jainism all life is sacred. Jain people don't eat root vegetables because it kills the plant they practice ahimsa to that extent.
The father and mother of the earth
The Saami believe that in the beginning there was only the Sun and the Earth. The Sun was the father, and the Earth the mother, and together they created a Son. The home of the Son of the Sun did not have any females, so he set out on a boat to the land of Giants to find a wife. There, he fell in love (or lust), with the daughter of the blind Giant King. With the help of the daughter, he won a game of finger pulling against her father and earned the right to marry her. They were then intimate, and then sailed away. However, they were pursued by her angry brothers who wanted her back.
The couple defeated the brothers with her magical handkerchief and the Son’s hot rays, burning the men to death, essentially. They were married, and she soon gave birth to the ancestors of the Sámi, the Gállá-bártnit, who were hunting sons and passed their hunting knowledge down to the Sámi.The Sun and the Earth also had a daughter, which the Sámi believe came to earth to live with the Sámi.
She gave the Sámi their reindeer to herd, and looked after them. When she was on her deathbed, she talked about wanting to see her Father, the Sun, again, because the darkness was coming in and she worried for the Sámi people.
The story of the Son is all about optimism for the future, whereas the poem about the Daughter is about uncertainty and the need to pray to ensure the future of the Sámi way of life.
Is the world real or a cosmic illusion
The body of the universe
The Jain people believe that the universe is represented by a body of a man where the human world is his waist and his upper body is heaven and his lower body the 7 hells of purgatory.
The first is where the tirthankara are the Shiddh-Loka next is where the celestial being live however not forever like the liberated beings or the tirthankara.
The middle is where the humans and the ajivas live and then the two lower levels consist of the lower world where their are the seven hells and the lower you go the more torture you experience the last is the base where the worst and lowest forms live.
Salvation or condemnations for the world
A mashiach will come for salvation
End of the wickedness and sin of the world commited by the Jewish people. Forgivness given from all sin commited.
The prophecies of the Messianic Era are those of miracles and common place.
Rebuilding jarusalem from the mishiach
That the nations of the world will study the torah and of god, and that the torah of today will be nothing like the torah of the Mashiach.
The Jewish people have many interpretations of the coming of the Mashiach however the Torah says that the prophet elija with welcome the Mashiach. There will be a battle of Gog and Magog. A physical battle of a spiritual battle we they dont know.
The jain people the nothing is ever distroyed or created they belive that it will simple change from one form to another.
The Jain people believe that there is no god that created the world and there is no god that will save it.
The according to jain cosmic law the universe has always existed and that it will always exist. It is regulated by the cosmic law that it runs on its own energy its very compatible wiht scientific theory.
Loka is the closed thing the jains people use to describe the universe. It means space however they belive space is infinite but the unvierse is not. The loka is the space making up the body of the man and the loka includes the middle where we humans live and the heaven and hell are over and under us.
The salvation in jain religion is not through the world or a miracle it is through finding the neutral karma that bring you salvation and in the siddha-loka the highest of the heaven where you will no longer be in the cycle of samsara.
What happens when we die
Life after death. Eventual resurection when the mishiach comes to forgive everyone in the afterlife hell or heaven.
The resurrection of the dead will take place 40 day after the Mashiach and all of the souls and the body they lived in will re reincarnated because the body and soul are partners in all acts before and must both be rewarded.
Life is pretious
Jewish funerals are sacred and heavily valued. they follow the grieving family through their journey but also to reaffirm their faith in god. Through giving back to a charity or the deceased liking is a custom.
A 7 day mourning is customary as well as a sheloshim a 30 day period of refraning from social gatherings and not cutting your hair or shaving.
The sacred body and soul
Jains belive that the soul is sacred and the body is just an container changing after you die.
The Jain people believe in reincarnation of the soul and body and reincarnation from the karma you acclimated from the past life.
The jains belive to reach siddh-loka you must have neutral karma aclimated. Even if you have good karma you will be reincarnated into a good life however you will still be on earth. If you aclimate neutral karma you will eventual reach sahhid-loka.
If you have bad karma and die you will be resurected into a bad life if you will be sent to the lower levels of the universe and live in eternal suffering in the seven layers of hell.
Not all souls can be liberated and some are inherently incapable of achieving salvation and enlightenment.
The two souls
The Saami people believe that there are two souls in your body your free soul and your body soul. Your free soul crosses into saivo, the afterlife. The body soul stays with your ancestors to help or harm the living to its choosing.
The saami people treat their ancestors with so much respect because the body souls could come and haunt them in real life. This insures a proper funeral and offering to the dead at sacred sieidi sites.
They sacrificed a bear and buried their dead's bones in the center un a special hut. They also kept sieidi to return the bones of fish and game, a sign of respect to the Alder Man.
A scree grave entombs the body in loose rock instead of earth. This was seen as preferable for the spirit, allowing it to escape the grave easily. Most burial sites were private and kept apart from human settlements.
Before burial, the deceased's body was wrapped in birch bark. Both men and women went to the grave with items they needed for the afterlife. In the Medieval era, women were typically buried with more wealth than men
The location of Savio changes depending on the country you are in ex. People in Norway believe it to be mountains whereas people in Finland believe it to be lakes. The shamins go to these locations as they believe it gives them more power and allows them to call on their “Guardian spirits”.