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By Alcudruids. [ Morginstrumental in bringing about Self-illumination ). So without this attitude nothing can work out true realization of the soul. Samvyaktva ( right belief) serves as a beacon light on the path of liberation.. Religious teachers have emphatically pronounced unshakable and perfect faith in the essential principles of Jainism as declared by Passionless to be the preliminary necessity. Meditation, concentration, philophical reflection can not be exercised unless one has attained the state of Samvyaktva.
It would not be out of place to give a very brief account of Samvyaktva according to the Jain philosophy. Karma according to the Jain philosophy, is classified into eight heads. Mohaniya Karma forms the fourth head. Its nature is to infatuate our moral and mental capacities in such a way as to cloud the discrimination between right and wrong. It is again classified into two heads,--the Darshnamohaniya Karmas which obstruct the faculty of relishing the truth when it is heard, and the Charitramohaniya Karmas which obstruct right conduct. When the three Darshanmohaniya Karmas and the four Anantānubandhis ( worst kind of anger, pride, deceit and greed ) are controlled the light of Samvyaktva dawns upon the human mind and the knot of karmas-/ likes & dislikes ) is cut off. The aspirant after Samvyaktva must pass through three processes-Yathā prayriti-karana, Apurvakarana, and Aniyritti-karana. These three processes refer to the reduction of the duration of the seven Karmas and
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