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Pride of family, (ii) Pride of strength, (iii) Pride of beauty, (iv) Pride of knowledge, (v)
Pride of wealth, (vi) Pride of authority, (vii) Pride of worldly connections, and (viii) Pride of spiritual advancement.
13. He should also satisfy the eight requirements by striving to ensure:
(i)
freedom from doubt,
freedom from desire for worldly comforts, (iii) respect for true believers, (iv) freedom from infatuation or aversion,
freedom from inclination towards wrong path, (vi) redemption of non-believers, (vii) establishment of right faith, and (viii) propagation of true doctrine.
14. Right Knowledge (Samyag Gyan)-The soul is a conscious being and as such is always in possession of some knowledge. But all knowledge is not Right Knowledge. That knowledge which the soul blessed with Right Vision possesses and which reveals with certainty (without exaggeration or inadequacy) exact nature of things and which leads to its spiritual developments is termed as Right Knowledge. Thus Right Knowledge should satisfy the following criteria:
(i) It should be necessarily preceded by Right Vision (if the vision is false
the knowledge would also be false), (ii) It should reveal completely the true nature of things, e.g. knowledge of
substances comprising the universe, fundamentals describing the
process of liberation etc., and (iii) It should lead towards the spiritual development of the soul.
15. As mentioned above the soul is never without knowledge
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