Moksha Marg Prakashak

SR No.: 006760
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Todarmal Pandit
Publisher: Kundkund Kahan Digambar Jain Trust
Publication Year: 1992
Total Pages: 556
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 15 MB

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CHAPTER 4
EXPOSITION OF FALSE BELIEF
KNOWLEDGE & CONDUCT
Couplet: 5H Ha Ha Frafalda, forur futura i
तिनकी सत्ता नाश करि, प्रगटै मोक्ष उपाव ॥ The main causes of all miseries of this mundane existence are fallacious (alien) dispositions of belief - knowledge and conduct. By uprooting their existence, the right means of attaining liberation gets manifested.
The fundamental causes of all worldly miseries are perverse belief, perverse knowledge and perverse conduct. Their characteristics are being elaborately described here. As a physician tells in detail the causes of the disease and the patient does not take unsuitable diet then he gets free from the disease. Similarly, a detailed exposition of the cause of transmigration (mundane existence) is given here; by knowing which if the mundane beings do not indulge in perverse belief, etc., then they would get free from mundane existence. Hence, a detailed exposition of the perverse belief, etc. is being given here:
The Characteristics of Perverse Belief . This Jiva is having bondage of karmic matter from times immemorial. The misbelief in Tattvas (reality) caused in him owing to the rise of Darshan Moha (faith-deluding) karma is termed as Mithyadarshan (wrong belief). For, the Quality of thatness is the reality (Tattva) i.e. the intrinsic characteristics of the substance which is worth ascertaining is termed as Tattva (the reality). That which is not a Tattva is Atattva (non-reality). Therefore, that which is Atattva (non-reality) is false, so the name of this (falsity) is perversity (Mithya). And “this is thus only”- having such ascertainment, is called Shraddha (belief).