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may also differ. A person devoid of direct (or Transcendental) Perception can judge a particular course of action only through exercising his own unbiased discretion, but he cannot judge if that course of action is actually right or not. Therefore, the canonist has asserted here that, for one whose conscience is pure and whose discernment is unprejudiced, a particular course of action is right, if it is felt so empirically. In the same way, anything propounded to be improper by him is improper, whether it is in reality improper or not.
Thus a sramana who practises any course of action in an unbiased way, is aptly called as the Truth-seeker. This very fact has been mentioned in the present sutra. It is perfectly consistent with the description of the five vyavaharas (Cf. Sthananga Sutra, 5/124).
१७. उवेहमाणो अणुवेहमाणं बूया "उवेहा हि समियाए ।"
97.
97.
६८. इच्चेवं तत्थ संधी झोसितो भवति ।
98.
98.
Uvehamāņo aṇuvehamāṇaṁ būyā "Uvehāhi samiyāe. "
One, having an unbiased outlook should say to one who has a biased outlook,"For the attainment of Truth, you should adopt the unbiased attitudes."
99.
Iccevam tattha samdhi jhosito bhavati.
afgen-q
१६. उट्ठियस्स ठियस्स गति समणुपासह ।
Ahimsa-padam
Complications (relating to the right and the wrong behaviour) can be resolved through the above mentioned method1.
ĀYĀRO
Uṭthiyassa thiyassa gatim samaņupasaha.
1. Samdhi denotes granthi (lit. a knot i. e. a complicated problem) and jhosita denotes kṣapitaḥ (i. e. dissolved).
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