Ten Supreme Virtues of Soul

Alongwith five Mahavratas Jainism also Stresses on 10 Supreme Virtue of Souls. These Virtues are as follows:

Dharma, Seva, Kshanti, Mridutvmrijuta, ch Shotmath, Satyam
Akinchanyam, Brahm, tyagshch, tapashch, sanyamshcheti’

1. Uttama Kshama - Supreme Forgiveness (To observe tolerance whole-heartedly, shunning anger.)

2. Mardava - Tenderness or Humility (To observe the virtue of humility subduing vanity and passions.)

3. Arjaya - Straight-forwardness or Honesty (To practice a deceit-free conduct in life by vanquishing the passion of deception.)

4. Shaucha - Contentment or Purity (To keep the body, mind and speech pure by discarding greed.)

5. Satya - Truthfulness (To speak affectionate and just words with a holy intention causing no injury to living  being.)

6. Sanyam - Self-restraint (To defend all living beings with utmost power in a cosmopolitan spirit abstaining from all the pleasures provided by the five senses – touch, taste,smell,sight and hearing; and the sixth – mind.)

7. Tapa - Penance or Austerities (To practice austerities putting a check on all worldly allurements.)

8. Tyaga - Renunciation (To give four fold charities – Ahara (food), Abhaya (fearlessness), Aushadha (medicine), and Shastra Dana (distribution of Holy Scriptures), and to patronize social and religious institutions for self and other uplifts.)

9. Akinchanya - Non-attachment (To enhance faith in the real self as against non-self i.e., material objects; and to discard internal Parigraha viz. anger and pride; and external Parigraha viz. accumulation of gold, diamonds, and royal treasures.)

10. Brahmacarya - Chastity or celibacy (To observe the great vow of celibacy; to have devotion for the inner soul and the omniscient Lord; to discard the carnal desires, vulgar fashions, child and old-age marriages, dowry dominated marriages, polygamy, criminal assault on ladies, use of foul and vulgar language.)