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CHAPTER-I
under illusion but because of faith in omniscients' preachings there will be no spiritual harm to Jiva. Ifout of them someone draws wrong conclusion about some subtle meanings even then it is not his great mistake. The same is said in Gommattasara:
"सम्माइट्ठी जीवो उवइ8 पवयणं तु सद्दहदि । सद्दहदि असब्भाव अजाणमाणो गुरुणियोगा ॥"
( vialus 7791-27 ) Meaning:- The right believer (Samyagdrishti-Jiva) believes in the preached true words and (sometimes) under the instruction of an ignorant teacher, believes also in wrong words.
Moreover, I also do not possess vast knowledge but I am very much afraid of going against the omniscients' preachings; due to the strength of this concept only, I am daring to write this book (shastra). So, in this book also I shall be describing the Tattvas exactly in the same way in which these are described in the old texts (Shastras). Or if at some places in the old books the description is uneleborated and deep, I shall describe the same here elaborately. In describing in this manner, I shall remain very careful but even besides taking all due precautions if at some place something deeper in meaning gets misinterpreted, it is my humble request to the intellectual savants to correct the same properly. In this way I have decided to write this Shastra.
Now, "what types of Shastras are worth reading and listening and what kind of discoursers and listeners of those Shastras should be there”, the same is being described here.
Shastras worth Reading & Listening Only those Shastras, which illuminate the right path of liberation, are worth reading and listening. In this world all living beings are suffering from innumerable kinds of miseries; if through the lamp (light) of Shastras, they attain the right path of liberation, then by treading on that path they themselves can be free from those miseries. And that liberation-path is nothing but a passionless disposition. It is therefore, desirable to read and listen to only those Shastras in which the sole purpose of passionlessness has been discoursed by judiciously contradicting delusion, attachment, aver
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