OneJAIN activities & greetings for the Paryushan Das Lakshan festivals

This last year, the pandemic has meant that OneJAIN has had to play a greater coordinating role. To manage events of the past year, we have held three virtual OneJAIN conferences for all Jain Presidents and Secretaries and together organised a collaborative Paryushana and Das Lakshana parvas, a combined response to Covid-19 and a Jain response to the Census.
Paryushana_Das Lakshana in 2020 was the first major Jain festival under lockdown, and in order to ensure that Jains could continue to celebrate and practice their faith, OneJAIN created a programme blessing all the devotees, featuring Acharyas from all Jain sects, and political, other religious and community leaders. We also coordinated a combined worship program that meant those at home could enjoy religious events from multiple organisations.
The Covid vaccine has been a glimmer of light for humanity and in order to ensure the Jain community understood the science, we have had a number of events in various languages, featuring Jain doctors and scientists. The health videos were then expanded to cover common diseases and illnesses, and today have been viewed by an estimated 100,000 people.
These activities were over and above the large scale humanitarian activities of serving the vulnerable and elderly members of the community, frontline health workers and the poor and homeless with vegetarian meals, grains, household essentials and clothing undertaken by most of the 30 plus Jain organisations in the UK.
On this auspicious occasion of Paryushan and Das Lakshna, we ask the well being of all those observing austerities and pray that these are completed without any hinderance. We also wish that all spiritual reflections are joyful and  successful. We seek forgiveness from all. Mitchami Dukkuddum