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Verse 42
संसयविमोहविब्भमविवज्जियं अप्पपरसरूवस्स । गहणं सम्मण्णाणं सायारमणेयभेयं तु ॥
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गाथा भावार्थ - आत्मस्वरूप और परपदार्थ के स्वरूप का जो संशय, विमोह (विपर्यय), और विभ्रम (अनध्यवसाय) से रहित तथा आकार (विकल्प) सहित जानना है वह सम्यग्ज्ञान कहलाता है। सम्यग्ज्ञान अनेक भेदों का धारक
42. Detailed cognition of substances, souls and non-souls, without the fallacies of doubt, error, or uncertainty, is right knowledge. Right knowledge is of many kinds.
EXPLANATORY NOTES
Right knowledge is free from perversity, doubt and indefiniteness
Correct knowledge, according to Jain Nyāya philosophy must be free from the Samaropa (i.e. fallacies). This Samaropa is said to be of three kinds: Viparyaya or Vimoha (Perversity), Samsaya (Doubt) and Anadhyavasāya or Vibhrama (Indefiniteness). The cognition of an object as something which is contrary to its real self, is known as Viparyaya or Vimoha. For example, if we think nacre to be silver, we have a knowledge vitiated by Viparyaya or Vimoha (Perversity). Samsaya consists of doubt when our mind sways between this or that, without being able to assert the true nature of anything. For example, when we see a certain object from a distance and are unable to say whether it is a man or a post, we have an instance of Samsaya or doubt. A knowledge that this is something,
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