On April 9, 2025, the Jain International Trade Organization (JITO) summoned the world to Vigyan Bhavan in Delhi for the Vishwa Maha Navkar Mantra Divas. It’s no random date—9, a number resonant with meaning in Jain thought, reflects the nine tenets of our philosophy, a quiet allusion to wholeness.

At 8am, just before the dawn of Mahavir Jayanti, voices from over 100 nations rose in unison, threading the Navkar Mantra into the air—a chant that’s less a performance and more a plea for peace and compassion, a mending of fractured realities.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi took to X not long ago, his words casting a rare spotlight on this gathering. He called the mantra a vessel—of spirituality, humility, brotherhood, and non-violence—values that don’t clamour for attention but settle deep, cutting through the clamour of division to nurture something calmer.

Join in, he urged, not for ritual’s sake, but to honour the fragile threads binding us all. This isn’t some fleeting moment; it’s a whisper against the din, a stubborn echo of what we Jains hold dear.

I stand here, a Jain in Bharat’s swirling mosaic—a speck within a speck, a microminority........

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