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Chapter - 4
Samayasăra
overcome the weakness, thus, increasing its capacity for complete renouncement and reducing the potency of attachment (rāga) and aversion (dveṣa) which are the main planks of wrong conduct.
From the above it is clear that Jain philosophers did not accept nescience (ajñāna) alone as the cause of bondage as some other systems did. It is only one of the three conditions of bondage and the worldly existence. Bondage, in the ultimate analysis, results in the obstruction and mutilation of the various capabilities of the pure soul. These capabilities can be grouped-under three main heads-world-view (faith, belief), knowledge and conduct which form the trio-the three jewels. The appellation samyak (right or enlightened)-which means without doubt or error-is attached to their pure form while 'mithya'-which means perverted-to their wrong form. Threefold conditions of the worldly existence-the perverted trio-require threefold antidotes. Stated differently, the eradication of the conditions of worldly existence having threefold potencies require counter-condition consisting of threefold counter-potencies.
(Idi cauttho puṇṇapāvādhiyāro samatto)
[Here ends the fourth chapter on Auspicious & Inauspicious Karma.]
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