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English Translation (preserving Jain terms):
The study of the Shri Samavasharan reveals that the ignorant, although they consider themselves skilled, are partially untruthful, immersed in doubt and uncertainty, ignorant, and instruct the ignorant students. They speak falsehoods without contemplating the true reality.
Commentary: Thus, the author first generally criticizes the proponents of action, inaction, and ignorance, and then proceeds to present their viewpoint in order to refute it. He says that those who are ignorant, i.e., the Ajnanikās, are completely incoherent in their statements. Therefore, he first introduces them as those in whom there is ignorance, i.e., the Ajnanikās or the ignorant ones, who act out of ignorance.
These Ajnanikās, although claiming to be skilled, are 'Asamstutas', i.e., incoherent, as they consider ignorance as the highest good. Due to this incoherence, they are 'Vichikitsachittaviplutih', i.e., afflicted by the disturbance of doubt and uncertainty in their minds. The Jnanis (the wise) contradict each other, as some say the self is all-pervasive, while others say it is not all-pervasive; some say it is the size of a thumb, while others say it is as small as a mustard seed; some say it is material, others say it is immaterial and situated in the heart. Thus, there is no unanimity among them, and there is no one who can be considered the supreme knower whose words can be taken as authoritative, as it is said that the omniscient one cannot know the omniscient.
Therefore, true knowledge alone is the highest good, as even if an ignorant person were to strike his head with his foot, he would not incur such faults as one afflicted by the disturbance of the mind. Thus, these proponents of ignorance are incoherent and have not crossed the ocean of doubt and uncertainty.
These Ajnanikās are 'Akovidah', i.e., unskilled, lacking in true understanding. What they have said, that the Jnanis contradict each other and are not speaking the truth, is not correct. The proponents of the acceptance of the scriptures revealed by the omniscient do not contradict each other, as their acceptance of the omniscient's teachings precludes any mutual contradiction, since the omniscience of the omniscient cannot be refuted.