Mahavira Jayanti Smarika 1977

SR No.: 014023
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Bhanvarlal Polyaka
Publisher: Rajasthan Jain Sabha Jaipur
Publication Year: 1977
Total Pages: 326
Language: Hindi, English
Classification: Seminar & Articles
File Size: 25 MB

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FIVE ASTIKAYAS, the seven TATTVAS, the nine PADARTHAS. The man who has this faith knows also the relative importance and the true significance of the TATTVAS. It also includes faith in true ideal, scriptures and teacher.4
2. Right faith from the real point of view or NISCHAYA SAMYAG DARSAN, right faith of the true nature of one's own soul. It is realisation of oneself as pure soul as something not distinct from the attribute which are peculiar to a perfect soul, namely, perfect knowledge, power and bless.5
Right faith is free from three errors of confounding it with false (1) Gods, (2) Place and (3) Teacher. The idea of God should be purged of all materialism or anthropomorphism. It should be the highest idal of the most perfect soul conceivable. There is from the highest point of view no special sanctity attaching to any place. The teacher also must be such as knows these doctrines and teaches them clearly and with emphasis.
It must be free from all the kind of pride. Eight are usually given : pride of one's mother's or father's relations; pride of greatness, beauty, know ledge, wealth, authority and asceticism or spiritual advancement.
Then it must be steady and with eight qualities which are given by SAMANTABHADRACHARYA IN HIS BOOK RATANAKARANDA SRAVA. KACHARA, 4.
Right faith arises in ten ways or in two ways :
IN TWO WAYS :
Nisarga or by nature; adhigama or by external instructions,
IN TEN WAYS :
From discourses or Jaina Tirthankaras (AJNA) or of learned men, or Jaina sacred books from renunciation or worldly or jects (Marga), from knowing the topics of Jainism in out line (SAMKSHEPA DRISHTI); etc. (See-ATMANU. SASANA, VV. 11-14; Jaina Gezette; Vol. V, 1907, p. 67).
RIGHT KNOWLEDGE ( SAMYAK JNANA )
Right faith makes us perceived the reality of life and the seriousness of our object in life, It saves us from the soul emptying, puzzling voisl of scepticism. It brings us nearer to the feeling and touch of the solid, substantial reality of our own and other souls, as also of the matter in union, with which the soul gives rise to the phenomena of life.
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