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XL : CANDRAVEDHYAKA PRAKĪRṆAKA
right-faith does not wander in the world. He is sure to achieve liberation, sooner or later, but the one who has skidded from the right-faith can never get liberated. One without the rightconduct, may, at some time in a distant future, attain salvation, but never the one without the right-faith.' Acārya Bhadrabāhu, too, says in his 'Acārānga-Niryukti', that knowledge, moralconduct and penance, too, fructify only in consonance with the right-faith.2 Thus, almost in all works, the faith has been accorded primacy.
Fundamentals regarding the Voluntary Peaceful Death (Samadhi Marana Guna):
After describing the fundamentalss of humility, the qualifications of the master and the disciple and their codes of conduct as well as the righteousness of knowledge and conduct, the author, in the end, while propounding the 'Marana Guna' throws some light on the nobility of the voluntary peaceful death. He says that the soul, which renounces the sensual pleasures, looks for the peaceful death when he sees the end of his life. (120) Further, it has been said of the monks, learned in scriptures but given to the sensual desires, that only a few of them can get the opportunity for the peaceful voluntary death; many are unable to embrace the death with equanimity of mind. (123)
'Who can attain the ultimate goal?' Answering this question, it has been said that only that person, who recalls his teaching with definite intellect, can pierce the Candra - the eye of the statuette mounted on a mechanically rotating platform. The one, who succumbs even to a little sloth, cannot pierce the
1 Bhaktaparijñā, 65, 66.
Acaranga Niryukti, 22.
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