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Teaching Values Through the Screen

Jinvani Channel's programming schedule reads less like a general devotional network and more like a curriculum. Scriptural discourse from named Digambara teachers, including Vidhya Sagar Ji and Virag Sagar Ji Maharaj, anchors the lineup, supported by devotional songs and philosophical discussion programs that walk through Jain teaching in more structured form than a typical bhajan-and-aarti broadcast. Sanskar Shala, a values education strand aimed at instilling ethical conduct, sits alongside more conventional lifestyle programming and even a reality show format, Survidhya, folded into the same devotional purpose the rest of the schedule serves.

That structure reflects the channel's founding mission: not simply broadcasting existing Digambara practice to a wider audience, but actively teaching it, particularly to younger viewers who might otherwise encounter Jain values only secondhand. Delivered in Hindi from its Agra base and distributed through satellite, DTH and its own mobile app, Jinvani Channel reaches Jain households across India and, through the app, a diaspora audience beyond it, continuing more than a decade after its 2011 launch as one of the few broadcasters built around a single Jain sect's own teaching rather than around Jainism, or Indian religious life, in general.

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