Hey Amit CLUELESS jain, Obviously you have a lot of jealousy hatred and venom against SANATAN VEDIC DHARMA. I am not surprised, as I always knew how it might have psychologically felt being a tiny tiny tiny sidekick minority(like you) in the homeland of Sanatan dharma(present day hinduism, if you will. atheistic philosophies like jainism buddism etc etc etc came under the bigger frame of hinduism and they shamelessly borrowed all the eastern dharmic principles(karma reincarnation samsara etc) from vedic scriptures especially upanishads. its like copyright violation, but guess what! Sanatan Dharma absorbed and made space for these Nastik(atheistic) philsophies too without any bitterness or ill will. all indian philosophies that evolved in this holy land later on are merely copy cut paste version of original vedic scriptures. infact this is not the place where people are talking about place of jainism / buddism etc etc(copycats) in india and whatnot, and then here you are Mr amit Clueless bitter jealous Jain marching alone to take on your mummy and daddy(read hinduism). problem here is aurangzeb and islamic ideolgy that have done irreparable damages to India and hindu ( including you jains buddists sikhs et al). if you have genuine grievances, or if you are looking for a better recognition, we can talk about it in another board. Concentrate on the topic here(aurangzeb), do not act like muslim minority of India who are ready to go at majority hindu at any given excuse. trust me, you jains belong only with us hindus. if you do not believe me, ask your other jain friends. as for 'sanatan devi devta dharma', i will just tell you this- we are your daddy when it comes to anything and everything(philosophy or whatnot. you guys came from us- at best, you are just another branch of sanatan dharma. at worst, you are a religion of atheism. you asked me to do some reading. i do not want to disappoint you but looking at your two liners i can tell you i am daddy there too. no pun intended.