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first four aphorisms (37, 38) are about samyagdrishti (righteous) chhadmasth and the last two (39, 40) are about mithyadrishti (unrighteous) chhadmasth. The difference between these two sets is that the first set of two is about people who are righteous chhadmasth and arrive at the conclusion by knowing the cause or know the truth through cause. A righteous (samyagdrishti) chhadmasth embraces death after knowing the cause or through cause; it is never out of ignorance. The following set of two is about unrighteous (mithyadrishti) chhadmasth who does not rightly know, see, or have faith in the cause; thus he does 457 not acquire the reality by right application. Being an unrighteous chhadmasth he is devoid of right knowledge and therefore he embraces an ignorant's death.
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The last two aphorisms are about Avadhi Jnani and Manah-paryav Jnani. Although they fall in the cause-free category their knowledge is not completely cause-free, it is partly cause-free and partly not. As they are free of indulgence (attachment and aversion) they embrace causefree death but it is chhadmasth maran (non-omniscient death). Ignorant death is with cause, chhadmasth death is both with and without cause and omniscient death is without cause. (Vritti, leaf 235)
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The first two of the following four aphorisms are about Keval Jnani 卐 (omniscient). An omniscient has direct perception, he has no need of cause or acquiring knowledge through cause. That is why he is called ahetuk or free of cause (one having direct perception). He rightly knows, sees, or has faith in ahetu (cause-free perception); through application of ahetu (cause-free perception) he acquires the right perception leading to 557 destruction of karmas (kshayik samyaktva) and thus he has complete faith in ahetu (cause-free perception) and acquires the reality through ahetu. Being free of cause, he does not die due to some cause but embraces ahetuk death (without cause or timely death).
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