Festivals
- Akshaya Tritiya commemorates the first Tirthankara, Rishabha, partaking food after many long years of penance.
- Jinaratri commemorates Rishabha's moksha.
- Mahavir Jayanti celebrates Tirtankara Mahavira's birth.
- Diwali commemorates Mahavira's moksha.
- Vasant Panchami honors the Jain Agamas
- Upaakarma commemorates the Chakravartin Bharata, son of Rishabha, acknowledging the true scholars by awarding them the Upanayana.
- Karthikai Deepam at the onset of the month of Kartika
- Puthandu and Thai Pongal are the other common festivals celebrated along with other Tamils.
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“This is certainly not the place for a discourse about what festivals are for. Discussions on this theme were plentiful during that phase of preparation and on the whole were fruitless. My experience is that discussion is fruitless. What sets forth and demonstrates is the sight of events in action, is living through these events and understanding them.”
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“Why wont they let a year die without bringing in a new one on the instant, cant they use birth control on time? I want an interregnum. The stupid years patter on with unrelenting feet, never stopping—rising to little monotonous peaks in our imaginations at festivals like New Year’s and Easter and Christmas—But, goodness, why need they do it?”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)