The Jain religion accepts these following items to be true and orients their beliefs and behaviors around them:

* Every living being has a soul * Every soul can potentially become divine with innate infinite knowledge, infinite perception, infinite power, and infinite bliss. * Every living being is yourself, harm no one.

* Every soul is can be born into a laver of existence depending on its karma: celestial, human, sub-human or demon * Every soul is the determines its own life, here and hereafter. * A soul freed from karma becomes god like liberated. * The freeing of Karma is achi ved by: Right View, Right Knowledge and Right Conduct * Non-violence is the basis of Right View, the condition of right Knowledge and the start of right Conduct. * Control your senses. * Limit your possessions and your possessiveness * Keep company of the holy and better qualified, show mery to the afflicted and tolerate the perversely inclined * Four things are difficult to attain by a soul: human birth, knowledge of the law, faith in the law and the pursuit of the right path. * Do not waste human life in evil ways yours or others. Rise up in your spiritual evolution. === ===