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Tattvarthadhigamasutra, 1.1). Right belief is the belief or conviction in things ascertained as they are. Right belief depends on the acquaintance with truth, on the devotion of those who know the truth and on the avoidance of heretical tenets. There is no right conduct without right belief. It must be cultivated for obtaining right faith; righteousness and conduct originate together. 1 The right belief is attained by intuition and acquisition and knowledge from external sources. It is the result of subsidence (upasama), destruction-subsidence (ksayopasama) and destruction of right belief deluding karmas
(darsana-mohaniya-karmopasama). The right belief is not identical with faith. It is reasoned knowledge. Adhigama is knowledge which is derived from intuition, external sources, e.g., precepts and scriptures. It is attained by means of pramana and naya. Pramana is nothing but direct or indirect evidence for testing the knowledge of self and non-self. Naya is nothing but a standpoint which gives partial knowledge of a thing in some of its aspects.
Samyak-darsana is of two kinds : (1) belief with attachment, the sings of which are the following : calmness
(prasama), fear of mundane existence in five cycles of wanderings (samvega), substance (dravya), place (ksetra), time (kala), thought-activity (bhava), compassion towards all living beings (anukampa) and (2) belief without attachment (the purity of the soul itself).
Right knowledge is of five kinds : (1) knowledge through senses, i.e., knowledge of the self and non-self through the agency of the senses of mind; (2) knowledge
1. Utlaradhyayana, XXVIII, 28.29.
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