Tattvartha Sutra

SR No.: 006796
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Sukhlal Sanghavi, K K Dixit
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad
Publication Year: 2000
Total Pages: 596
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Tattvartha Sutra, & Tattvarth
File Size: 10 MB

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CHAPTER ONE
from its subsidence1 while that resulting from its destruction is purer than the former.
Besides the above three there are two more conditions-viz. that resulting from the manifestation of a Karma and that which is natural (i. e. that which has nothing to do with Karma.) But samyaktva is not to be found under either of these conditions. That is to say, samyaktva cannot make its appearance at a time when the darśanamohaniya karma is manifesting itself; similarly, inasmuch as it is not found in a soul unconcealed since a beginningless time— this in contrast to the class-character soul-ness that is actually so found in a soul-samyaktva is also not a natural condition of soul. (14) Alpabahutva or the relative numerical strength-of the above three types of samyaktva that resulting from subsidence is numerically smallest, for the souls possessed of this type of samyaktva are always fewer than those possessed of the other two types. Samyaktva resulting from subsidence-cum-destruction is asankhyāta times greater than that resulting from subsidence while that resulting from destruction is ananta times greater than the former. Samyaktva resulting from destruction is ananta times greater because it characterizes all the souls that have attained mokṣa while the number of such souls is ananta. 7-8.
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Types of Right Cognition :
Mati, śruta, avadhi, manaḥparyaya and kevala-these five are the types of cognition. 9.
1. Here when samyaktva resulting from subsidence-cumdestruction is declared to be purer than that resulting from subsidence what is had in mind is not the quality but the duration of the two. For so far as quality is concerned it is the latter that is purer; that is so because pradeśodaya (i. e. a particularly mild type of manifestation) of mithyātva (i. e. the Karma in question the darśanamohaṇīya karma) is possible at the time when the former is present, but no type of udaya (i. e. manifestation) of mithyātva is possible at the time when the latter is present. However, the possible duration of the former is much greater than that of the latter, and in this respect the former can even be said to be purer than the latter.
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