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Ātmānuśāsana
होकर संवेग आदि गुणों से वृद्धि को प्राप्त हुआ वह श्रद्धान (सम्यग्दर्शन) निरन्तर संसार का नाशक; कुमति, कुश्रुत एवं विभंग इन तीन मिथ्याज्ञानों की शुद्धि (समीचीनता) का कारण; तथा जीवाजीवादि सात अथवा इनके साथ पुण्य और पाप को लेकर नौ तत्त्वों का निश्चय कराने वाला है। वह सम्यग्दर्शन स्थिर मोक्षरूप भवन के ऊपर चढ़ने वाले बुद्धिमान् शिष्यों के लिये प्रथम सीढ़ी के समान है। इसीलिये इसे चार आराधनाओं में प्रथम आराधनास्वरूप कहा जाता है।
आत्मानुशासन
Having belief in the true nature of substances is right faith (samyagdarśana). It is of two kinds depending on whether it is attained by intuition (nisargaja) or by acquisition of knowledge (adhigamaja). It is of three kinds depending on the disposition or thought-activity (bhāva). That disposition (bhāva) which has subsidence as its object or cause, is subsidential (aupaśamika). Similarly with regard to destructional (kṣāyika) and destruction-cum-subsidential (hsāyopaśamika). It is also of ten kinds, like revelation (ājñā) by Lord Jina, as will be detailed in the next four verses. Rid of the twenty-five imperfections like the three kinds of follies, and enriched further by qualities like perpetual fear of the cycle of existence - samvega, such right faith is the cause of the cessation of transmigration (samsāra); it purifies the knowledge by filtering out the three contaminators called wrong-sensory-knowledge (kumati), wrong-scripturalknowledge (kuśruta) and wrong-clairvoyance (vibhanga). It ascertains the seven substances of reality - tattva, like the soul and the non-soul, or the nature of the nine
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