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🔆Important terms related To Jainism
✅ *ASRAV* - Inflow of karmas to the soul that occurs at every second in life.
✅ *SAMVARA* - Stoppage of the influx of the material karmas into the soul consciousness.
✅ *NIRJARA* - Shedding or removal of accumulated karmas from the atma (soul), essential for breaking free from samsara, the cycle of birth-death and rebirth, by achieving moksha, liberation. It is one of the seven fundamental principles, or Tattva in Jain philosophy.
✅ *SALLEKHANA* - It is the religious practice of voluntarily fasting to death by gradually reducing the intake of food
and liquids. Also Called Santhara.
✅ *KAIVALYA,* also known as Kevala Jnana, means omniscience in Jainism and is roughly translated as complete understanding or supreme wisdom.
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