Jain texts assign a wide range of meaning to the Sanskrit dharma or Prakrit dhamma.
Jain texts prescribe meditation on twelve forms of reflection (bhāvanā) for those who wish to stop the influx of karmas that extend transmigration.
[1] One such reflection is Dharma bhāvanā: The faith promulgated by Jina is characterized by non- injury, based on truth, with humility as its root, forbearance as its strength, safeguarded by celibacy, dominated by quietism and characterized by restraint and non-attachment as its support.
Without attaining it living beings have been wandering in the beginningless mundane existence, undergoing sufferings and misery owing to the rise of inauspicious karmas.
If true faith is attained, one is bound to achieve emancipation, after enjoying several kinds of worldly prosperity and distinction.
Sramana-dharma is the religious path of the virtuous ascetics, where meditation and study of scriptures is their primary duty.