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PHILOSOPHY OF SOUL
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Bondage of 'Karmas' is also an effect and as such must be preceded by the cause. The Jineshwara Lords have proclaimed four things in this connection :
I) Wrong belief or heterodoxy (Mithyatva) 2) Passions (Kashayas) 3) Attachment (Avirati) 4) Frivolity (Yoga)
WRONG BELIEF
Authors of the scriptures say, “In this world no other enemy is as dreadful as 'Wrong belief'. No other poison is as dangerous as 'Wrong belief'. It is the disease worst and blindness unrivalled. Wrong belief (Mithyatva) has five varieties. Abhigrahika, Anabhigrahika, Abhiniveshika, Samshyika and Anabhogika.
Abhigrahika wrong belief arises when one presumes one's own contention as true without testing its veracity.
Anabhigrahika wrong belief arises in accepting all religions as true, all branches of philosophy as true, bowing down to all, and worshipping all alike as treating poison and nectar alike.
Abhiniveshika wrong belief arises by appraising a wrong path despite the knowledge of the right path owing to some attachment. Most of the hypocrites possess this type of Wrong belief!
Samshayika type of Mithyatva arises when one's faith is not affirmed in Lord Jina's preaching remaining unintelligible on account of one's limited power of understanding.
Anabhogika type of Mithyatva arises when nothing becomes intelligible owing to ignorance. All creatures ranging from onesensed formless to five sensed ones are possessed of this sort of 'Wrong belief'.
This is a sort of interchange of vision, which makes the soul conceive meritorious outlook as unmeritorious and vice versa, makes the soul believe right path as the wrong one and vice versa, makes the soul realise saintly person as a vilain and vice versa, and
