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Right knowledge is also a pre-requisite condition for right detachment. In absence of a clear perception of its aim, no un attachment can be real and lasting. One, desiring to be immune from the feelings of attachment and aversion, ought to acquire a correct knowledge of the self and the universe. Indispensability of Syād-vāda for detachment born of knowledge (şi apora) is explained in the following lines of Achārya Shri Haribhadra Sūrishvaraji :
“ One who has faith in any sort of Ekānta, ( for instance that soul is absolutely one and alone, that it is absolutely eternal, that it is absolutely evanascent, that it is never enchained or that it is absolutely unreal ), may be constantly contemplating the worthlessness of the world and may even be earnestly practising right conduct and zeulously refraining from passion, yet his mental state of detachment will be one born of delusion ( Het ) and not one born of knowledge (patva ). He, who in the light of Syād-vāda believes that from the standpoint of Ātmatva, the soul is one; that from the stand-point of individual entities, there are a number of souls; that viewed from its substance it is eternal; that viewed from its form it is fleeting; that viewed from the angle of Nishchaya
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