Reality English Translation of Sarvarthasiddhi

SR No.: 001197
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: S A Jain
Publisher: Jwalamalini Trust Chennai
Publication Year: 1992
Total Pages: 334
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Philosophy, Tattvartha Sutra, Tattvartha Sutra, & Tattvarth
File Size: 20 MB

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40 DISTINCTION BETWEEN RIGHT AND WRONG KNOWLEDGE
For instance, just as the person of right faith perceives form, colour and so on, 80 also doos the person of wrong faith. Just as the person of right faith ascertains form, colour, etc. through scriptural knowledge and represents these accordingly, 80 also does the person of wrong attitude through wrong scriptural knowledge. And just as the man of right attitude ascertains matter through clairvoyance, so also does the man of wrong attitude through erroneous clairvoyance. In this connection the author points out as follows.
सदसतोरविशेषाद्यदृच्छोपलब्धेरुन्मत्तवत् ॥ ३२ ॥ Sadasatoravišeşādyadscchopalabdherunmattavat (32) 32. Owing to lack of discrimination between the real and the unreal, wrong knowledge is whimsical as that of a lunatic.
Sat is what exists, asat is what does not exist. Knowledge becomes wrong when these are apprehended by chance without discrimination. Sometimes, owing to the operation of wrong belief, when colour etc. are present, these are apprehended as not present. When these are not present, they are apprehended as present. Sometimes, what exists is apprehended as existing, and what does not exist is apprehended as non-existing. For instance the person, whose mind is upset due to disturbed bile, indiscriminately considers the mother as the wife and the wife as the mother. Sometimes, he also considers the mother as the mother only and the wife as the wife only according to his whims. Even the latter is not true knowledge (as it is only accidental and not discriminatory). Similarly, error arises in the case of sensory knowledge etc. in ascertaining shape, colour, etc. of things. For instance, it is as follows. The wrong attitude in a being produces errors of three kinds-viz. of cause, of difference and identity and of nature--even when colour ctc. are apprehended. First, as 'regards errors of cause, some say that the cause of colour etc. is one, non-material and permanent. Others consider that the atoms which constitute carth, water, fire and air are of different classes, possessing four qualities, three qualities, two qualities and one quality respectively. The atoms of one