Jinamanjari 1999 04 No 19

SR No.: 524019
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Jinamanjari
Publisher: Canada Bramhi Jain Society Publication
Publication Year: 1999
Total Pages: 88
Language: English
Classification: Magazine, Canada_Jinamanjari, & Canada
File Size: 5 MB

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vanished due to the fruition of the infinite-bonding passion, and has not developed firm bhāva about wrongness.
Q. As there are three types of faiths - [I] right (ii) wrong (iii) ubhayarupa (mixed). Sasādani (lingering right-faithed) is neither mithyadrașt as he does not accumalte karma, nor is he samyakdrști (right-faithed); he is not ubhayarupi (mixed) type. Since there is no fourth kind of rightcum-wrongness, why there should be a category of sasādani in spiritual stage ? A. In asādana there is false predilection, which has two kinds: one arising from infinite-bonding kasāya and the other from karma of wrong faith. The āsādana having infinite-bonding kasāya therefore is wrong-faithed. But there being no wrong predilection arising out of wrong-faith, āsādana is right-faithed rather than wrong-faithed.
Q. How could it be right-faithed when there is wrong predilection arising from wrong-faith? A. It is because of the fact that the living being was right-faithed earlier. This is also has been said in the GJ verse 20: Āsādana living being in his second spiritual stager approaches wrong faith, falling from right faith. It means that his right-faith is vaning but has yet to acquire wrongfaith completely.
The next verse describes the third spiritual stage of samyag-mithyādraști (right-cum-wrong faith):
Samma-micchāitthi - 11 In general, there are the right-cum-wrong-faithed living beings.
Q. What is the definition of samyag-mithyādraști ? A. He is called so for he is right-cum-wrong-faithed as having both types of faiths: right-cum-wrong.
Q. As it is not possible to have both types of faiths at a time in a living being, does third spiritual stage stands scrutiny? A. When it is possible to have right and wrong faiths in a living being in succession, it could also be possible to have both types of faith in him at the same time. We find such right-cum-wrong-faithed who hold that the enlightened ones are also venerable deities, without resigning from the worship of their earlier accepted deities.
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