Weeknote 37 2026

Life Paryushan My main reason for visiting home is attending the Paryushan Mahaparv, maha means big and parv means festival. Basically, Paryushan is the name and we call it "big festival" :). It's a 8 day festival celebrated by the followers of Jainism, where we increase our usual spiritual activities along side fasting, bhakti (singing devotion songs to the God), pakshal, puja etc. One important distinction between usual Hindu fasting and ours is we do not eat any food, NONE, no fruits, no milk, no sabudana, nothing. It's a fast with water only diet. Water itself has rules too. It needs to boiled water (consumption after cooling down ofc :P), and can only be drank between 48 minutes after sunrise to 48 minutes before sunset! These are the rules we strictly follow when doing Tapasya(jain fasting). Everyday people daunt at the idea of staying hungry for 16-18 hours, while Jains have young kids not eating anything for a month! Its called Maskhaman in our language! There are fasting…