Jainism: The Religion That Chose Compassion Over God

No creator God. No army. No missionaries. No crusades. No jihad. No inquisition. Just one radical commitment. Never harm any living being. Not humans. Not animals. Not insects. Not microorganisms. Any. Living. Being. Jainism may be the most demanding religion on Earth. And the most peaceful. This episode examines Jainism completely and honestly. The life of Mahavira, the 24th Tirthankara. The Jain rejection of a creator God and why. The physical nature of karma in Jain philosophy. The five great vows that govern Jain monastic life. The doctrine of Anekantavada and its influence on Gandhi. How Jain communities shaped India without armies. And the 7 toughest questions Jainism must face. This is Episode 6 of the series: What If You Were Born Somewhere Else? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ SERIES PLAYLIST: Episode 1: The Geography of Belief Episode 2: Zoroastrianism Episode 3: Hinduism Episode 4: Judaism Episode 5: Buddhism Episode 6: Jainism (you are here) Episode 7: Confucianism and Taoism (coming next) Episode 8: Christianity Episode 9: Islam Episode 10: Sikhism Episode 11: Bahá'í Faith Episode 12: Atheism Episode 13: The Finale ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Subscribe and turn on notifications. Share this with someone who has never heard of Jainism. After this episode they will never think about non-violence the same way again.