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एकोनत्रिंश अध्ययन [३५६
CHAPTER 29 EXERTION IN RIGHT FAITH
Foreview
This chapter is named as Exertion in Right Faith. By this chapter we get a directive line for exertion in right faith. Some preceptors called it by name Apramnādaśruta and some entitled it as Vītarágaśruta. But thinking deeply at the subject matter of this chapter the name Samyaktva Parákrama or Exertion in Right Faith seems more correct.
In the previous twentyeighth chapter four causes for obtaining liberation were described. Among them one was right faith and inspiration was also made to exert in it.
In this chapter a directive line is set that how to exert in right faith.
It is quite natural that the heart and head of an adept may be engrossed by some questions, like-longing for salvation, disgust to worldly object, faith in religion, servitude, rendering service, confession of slips, blemishness and other such activities which are done in adept's life-order-and ordered by preceptors-preachers to do. Those activities bear any fruits or not? And if any fruits occur then what and in which form? What benefits get the soul of adept ? What special exalts he attain by these activities?
In this chapter 73 questions of this type are compiled and answered with due course.
Questions are short structured and the answers are also brief; but in these short answers the great secret is filled.
We may take the first question for example. It is-longing for salvation? In its reply beginning from faith in religion to obtain liberation in third life (existence)-this benefit is described.
Such are the answers of other questions. Completeness may be visualised in the pacification of short questions.
The order of questions and answers is totally in accordance. The questions begin with desire of liberation and end in the process of liberation.
Adept's life also begins with inclination and desire of salvation and his ultimate aim is emancipation
This chapter is constructed in question-answer style. The subjects described in whole Uttaradhyayana sūtra, all the questions regarding them have been pacified in this chapter. That is why, it is called as the core of whole Uttarādhyayana sūtra.
Thinking with keen and subtle view point, all the spiritual querries have been pacified here.
In the present chapter there are 73 questions and their answers and 74 maxims.
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