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Ācārānga-Bhāsyam
by Ācārya Mahāprajña Cauttham Aijhayaṇam Samattam
CHAPTER-DII ENDURANCE OF COLD AND HOT
PREFACE
The name of the fourth chapter is ‘Right View'. Some people expound that the tolerance of suffering alone is righteousness in the discipline of the Jainas but this cannot be established to be so. In the beginning of the third chapter and also in the beginning of the present chapter, the Cūrņi has said - righteousness cannot be achieved exclusively by suffering or by a pleasurable way; righteousness is indeed the abandonment of the passions. And the principal condition of righteousness is right view. This chapter occupies a prominent place in the Ācārānga Sūtra, as the Cūrņi has said - as a lamp placed in the middle of a hall enlightens the entire hall, exactly so this chapter being in the middle of the Acārānga Sūtra expounds the entire doctrine of conduct.? There are four sections in the present chapter. The topics of this chapter have been described under the following heads in the Niryukti - 1] The doctrine of the right view. 2] The examination of the view of upholders of heretical
doctrines. 3] Description of faultiless austerity. The unenlightened austerity
has no universal instrumentality to the achievement of
salvation. 4] A brief statement of self-discipline or self-restraint.
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