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## Chapter 626, Life Chapter
## Verse 561
You are greatly afraid of suffering and desire happiness in every way. Therefore, I too, as a remover of suffering and a bringer of happiness, teach you what is beneficial to you.
"All beings desire to attain happiness quickly. This happiness is attained through the destruction of all karmas." [Self-Instruction Verse] - All beings desire to attain happiness quickly. Happiness is attained through the destruction of all karmas, meaning through liberation, because the happiness of liberation is independent and free from suffering. The teaching that speaks of karma destruction (liberation) and the causes of karma destruction (the path to liberation) is a beneficial teaching. The Jina has taught about both the state of liberation and the path to liberation, therefore the Jina is a beneficial teacher.
Thus, the Jina, being free from attachment, omniscient, and a beneficial teacher, is a truthful speaker. Therefore, the six substances taught by him - living beings, matter, dharma substance, adharma substance, space, and time - are also truthful. Except for time, the five substances - living beings, matter, dharma substance, adharma substance, and space - are multi-faceted and, being real, are the five categories of existence. The Jina has also taught about the nine substances - living beings, mind, pleasure, pride, restraint, liberation, merit, and demerit. Just as the Jina has spoken about these six substances, five categories of existence, and nine substances, to believe in them as he has spoken is right faith. Faith in the truth is right vision.
Truth, scripture, and substance are the truths, and faith in them, meaning attachment to them, is right vision. Faith in the truth is right vision, or having an interest in the truth is right faith. Or, right faith is that whose characteristic is the manifestation of calmness, emotion, compassion, and faith. This right faith is of two types: faith through instruction or faith through understanding. First, the characteristic of faith through instruction is as follows:
"Faith through instruction is said to be that which is born from the instruction of the one who is free from attachment." [Previous Verse 12] - Faith that arises from the instruction of the one who is free from attachment is faith through instruction.
The five categories of existence, the six categories of living beings, the time substance, and other substances are only to be understood through instruction. One who believes in them through the understanding of instruction is one who has faith through instruction.