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PHILOSOPHY OF SOUL
On hearing these words the disciples of Rudracharya abandoned their preceptor as a serpent abandons its slough and achieved bliss by righteous conduct. The preceptor Angarmardaka wandering in this world with false beliefs suffered various miseries in number of existences.
RIGHT BELIEF AND FALSE BELIEF
'Mithyatva' is false conviction and 'Samakita' is right belief or proper conviction. When a fact is improperly conceived-believed to be different from what it actually is, Mithyatva or 'false belief' arises. If one believes in God but believes Him as assuming human existence, then it is a 'false belief' as God has consumed all His Karmas and He need not again enter into the worldly existence, Similarly if one conceives Soul as transitory and emerging into the Great God then also 'false belief' arises as the Soul is immortal.
One is Omniscient who realizes the true nature of the world. We are possessed of passions and therefore, we cannot realize the world in its true nature and herein lies the right conviction by which we entertain full faith in the declarations made by the Omniscient Lord. Person with false conviction has quite the contrary belief. He holds as he pleases; but it pays him no good. It drags him to severe loss.
DIFFERENCE IN KARMAS PERFORMED BY PERSONS OF RIGHT BELIEF
AND PERSONS OF FALSE BELIEF
Both the persons of right and wrong belief often kill a creature but the former does so under compelled duty dis-interestedly and with reluctance, knowing well the sinful nature of his action ; with the consequence that he has less rigid bond of Karma contracted; while the latter does so with interest and without knowing its sinful nature. The person with right belief has more consumption of Karmas, while the person with false belief has lesser consumption of Karmas. The former has such consumption knowingly while the latter has consumption of Karmas without proper knowledge. A person with false belief would be frightened on arrival of the results of sinful acts. He would worry as to how they arrived and would suffer them with complaints, while a person holding right belief would boldly face them, endure them with patience knowing
