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Tattvarthasutra
The topic of this scripture is liberation (moksha). Therefore, the author divides the religious practices that lead to liberation into three sections and refers to them in the first sutra:
Right perception, right knowledge, and right conduct constitute the path to liberation. In this sutra, there is only a mention of the means to liberation. However, the form and types of liberation and its means will be elaborated upon later. Nevertheless, a brief description of its form is provided here.
The form of liberation: Liberation is the complete spiritual development that occurs due to the absence of the causes of bondage. This means that the peak of knowledge and the feeling of detachment is liberation.
The concise means: The quality or power that develops, leading to the realization of the essence, which is the truth, results in a disposition to renounce what is to be discarded (heya) and a preference for what is to be accepted (upaya) as per one's discernment; this is ‘right perception’ (samyag-darshana).
The knowledge corresponding to the essence that arises from inference and evidence is called ‘right knowledge’ (samyag-jnana).
1-2. The knowledge that can be expressed in words, that is, knowledge in which the objective and the format of the rules can be spoken of, is the inference (naya) and this knowledge, where the distinction made by 'designative reference' is not present—namely, where the undivided essence is wholly or partially understood as it truly is—is the right knowledge (pramaṇa), for further explanations see Chapter 1, Sutra 6; as well as the Gujarati translation of the Shloka from Tattvārthāvatāra, verses 29-30.