Paryushana - Annual Festival
The most important Jain festival, focused on confession, fasting, and renewal.
Paryushana is an eight (or ten) day festival of fasting, meditation, confession, and spiritual renewal. It concludes with Kshamavani, a day of seeking and granting forgiveness.
In Paryushana, we return to our spiritual center.
Paryushana is the spiritual high point of the Jain year.
Paryushana
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- What Jainism says about forgiveness
Paryushana runs eight or ten days of fasting, confession and study, and is the most important period in the Jain year. Its function for forgiveness is that it is a deadline: whatever you have been carrying gets looked at by a fixed date, not whenever you feel ready.