For Palitana, a pilgrimage town living beneath a hill of Jain temples, where renunciation is the surrounding culture.
A town organised around renunciation
Palitana sits below Shatrunjaya, a hill carrying hundreds of Jain temples that pilgrims climb on foot. The town exists to serve that pilgrimage, and Jain principles - non-violence, restraint, detachment from material accumulation - are the ambient culture rather than a minority view.
It is a genuinely distinctive place to be ambitious in.
Wanting things where wanting less is the ideal
The central tension is unavoidable. Much of what a coaching practice normally addresses - building wealth, growing a business, wanting more - sits in direct tension with the philosophical framework people here were raised inside.
Clients describe guilt they struggle to articulate. Not guilt about a specific act, but about desire itself. Some conclude they are bad at their religion. Others quietly abandon ambition and call it acceptance when it is closer to avoidance.
The distinction that helps
Detachment in the Jain sense is about your relationship to outcomes, not about refusing to act. Doing your work fully while holding the result loosely is the tradition's actual position, and it happens to be excellent psychology. Many people here are carrying an oversimplified version of their own inheritance and suffering for it.
Untangling genuine spiritual practice from inherited passivity is most of the work, and it usually comes as a relief.
Sessions
Online, in Gujarati. The coaching does not require or contradict any particular belief.
Frequently asked questions
- Does this conflict with Jain principles?
- It should not. The work is on clarity and action, and it can be practised inside any framework you hold.
- Is manifestation about wanting material things?
- Not necessarily. What people bring here is more often peace, clarity or family harmony than money.
