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This text describes the three limbs of religion (right faith, right knowledge, and right conduct) - the Ratna Tray - in some detail and divides it into seven chapters. A brief summary of each chapter is as follows:
The first chapter explains 'right faith' for those who have faith, free from the three confusions and eight defects, and possess the eight limbs. It describes the characteristics of the enlightened, the scriptures, and the ascetics, the nature of worldly, divine, and heretical confusions, the names of the eight defects, and the important characteristics of the eight limbs. It also shows how the teachings of the enlightened cannot be beneficial without detachment, how right faith without the limbs is not capable of destroying birth and rebirth, and how disrespecting other righteous souls is disrespecting religion itself. In addition, it describes the glory of right faith in detail and mentions the following characteristics:
(1) Even a Chandala with right faith should be considered a 'dev'.
(2) A pure right faith soul does not bow or show humility to false gods, false scriptures, or false teachers due to fear, hope, affection, or greed.
(3) Right faith is primarily worthy of worship compared to knowledge and conduct. It is like a ferryman on the path to liberation, and without it, the origin, existence, growth, and fruition of knowledge and conduct cannot happen in the same way that a tree cannot grow without a seed.
(4) A detached (right faith) householder is on the path to liberation, but a deluded (wrong faith) monk is not. Therefore, a detached householder is superior to a deluded monk.
1. This printed commentary has five chapters of the text, the reason for which is not clear. It is not known whether the commentator Shri Prabhachandra did this or whether it is the work of the scribes. In our opinion, seven chapters seem good from the point of view of subject division, and they are also found in the original manuscripts. If there are not seven chapters, then there should be four. It is not clear what is the point of including the chapter on good vows in the previous chapter and not including the chapter on education vows.