Samkit Faith Practice Liberation

SR No.: 007764
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Amit B Bhansali
Publisher: Amit B Bhansali
Publication Year: 2015
Total Pages: 447
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 7 MB

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17. Considering the true path (maarga) to be false (kumaarga). 18. Considering the false path (kumaarga) to be true (maarga). 19. Teaching less than the path of the Jinaas 20. Teaching more than the path of the Jinaas 21. Teaching that which is the reverse of the Jinaa's teachings 22. Avinaya mithyaatva {false belief arising out of irreverence} 23. Akriya mithyaatva {false belief arising out of inaction 24. Agynaana mithyaatva {false belief arising out of ignorance} 25. Ashaatanaamithyaatva {false belief arising out of contempt
Of these 25 types of mithyaatva, insentient living beings can only suffer from one kind of mithyaatva, known as the anaabhoga mithyaatva while sentient beings can suffer from all 25 types of mithyaatva. This is because insentient beings cannot go through the process of deduction, and are unable to form conclusions of their own. Only sentient beings can do so. Hence, only sentient beings can get rid of their false belief and attain samyak darshana. On the other hand, insentient beings, like their sentient beings, suffer from mithyaatva-mohaniiya karmas. Hence, they can suffer from anaabhoga mithyaatva.
Here a very important question arises:
When mithyaatva causes such lasting and critical damage to the soul, why is it considered as one of the 14 gunasthaanaka (stages of spiritual development of the soul}?
1. Those who are in the first (primal) state of spiritual development, also known as the mithyaatva gunsthaanaka, have false perception, false knowledge and false conduct. Because of the presence of mithyaatva mohaniiya karmas, they wrongly understand the teachings of the Jinaas. However, due to the presence of a modicum and perception and knowledge, they can perceive and recognise gross objects like humans and animals. And all living beings, even the most inferior beings living in nigoda, have the sense of touch through which they can perceive hot and cold, rough and smooth, dry and wet, etc.
All living beings have at least the most infinitesimal quantum of knowledge. Had it not been for this, living beings would cease to be sentient and qualify as insentient matter!
The ancient seers have explained this clearly:
"Savvajiivaanampi ya nam akkharassa (pajjavakkharassa) anantabhaago niccugghaadio. Jai puna sodavi aavarijjaa tenam jiivo ajiivattam paavijjaa.”
Nandii Suutra, verse 42 (Page 488, Author: Ghaasilalji Maharasaheb, Shaastrouddhaarak Samiti, Rajkot, (Gujarat), year 1958)
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