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acquired for numberless times and destructive right belief is acquired only once.
PHILOSOPHY OF SOUL
There are innumerable souls possessed of pacified right belief in this world. Those possessed of destructive and pacified rightbelief are also numberless and those possessed of destructive right belief are infinite in number.
The soul possessed of right belief or right intuition has the right vision. Such a soul is devoid of eighteen vices. It respects Lord Arihanta, the conqueror of passion and prejudice as the supreme God, respects as his preceptor the monk with self-abnegation and observing great vows, and professes the religion enunciated by the omniscient Lord prescribing charity, righteousness, and penances as the right type of religion.
He would not grow sceptical about the commands of Lord Jina, would not look forward for any other school of philosophy, would not be incredulous about the rewards of rightly-performed religious ceremonies, would not praise and be intimate with the persons of false belief. He would discriminate between soul and non-soul, he would accept the soul as the doer of Karmas and the enjoyer of the fruits of Karmas and he would firmly believe that emancipation could be achieved with manly endeavours. He loves truth and shows great aversion for falsehood. He would undertake activities only for his livelihood, with apprehension of sin at heart and would not entertain any activity of cruelty.
Attachment cannot be purged off unless right belief arrives and therefore, it is necessary to acquire this condition of right belief for dismissal of attachment.
Pacified right belief continues for "Antarmuhurta" destructive and pacified right belief continues for a minimum period of "Antarmuhurta" and for the maximum period of more than sixty six "Sagaropam". Thus both these type of right belief have beginning and an end, but the destructive right belief once arrived is never dismissed and thus it has beginning but no end.
All the four types of souls can acquire right belief, but only worldly souls are entitled to the right belief.
A soul when rests on right belief even once then its worldly existence does not last for more than "Ardha-pudgalaparavartana
