During their Dasalakhshan or Paryushan Parva festival this year, many followers of Jainism have hoisted the new five-coloured flag in their temples and houses.
This flag is their religious symbol which represents the basic precepts and values of Jainism as said in the following haiku.
Haiku
Five-coloured Jain flag-
Red, yellow, white, green, and black / blue -
Reminds supreme beings.
White's for Arihants
Conquerors of mind's evils -
The self-realized ones
White's for Ahimsa,
Purity, truth, non-stealing
Non-acquisition
Red is for Siddhi
To live with truthfulness -
That nothing is ours
Yellow is Acharya
The great masters of adepts
Wisdom and ethics
Green – Upadhyaya -
The apt teachers of scriptures
Living a chaste life
Black / blue represents monks
Who're renuncitiates, detached
Striving to know Self
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