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of a bird. The bird without any one of his wings is unable to soar high in the sky; in the same way the soul wanting any one of these is unable to soar high towards salvation.
Right Knowledge. To attain salvation“ Samyag Gnana " also is very necessary. It is not necessary to write any thing about the greatness of knowledge. We experience its influence at every step. When right insight is gained knowledge becomes Samyag Gnyana. When the clouds of perversion and temptation melt away in the sky of the soul then right insight and right knowledge begin to shine out brilliantly like the light and glory of the sun. Right knowledge can be divided into two main divisions. (i) Pramana, (ii) and Naya. Every thing is a composite group of many qualities. The knowledge that understands one particular quality-that only knows the thing partially-is called “Naya ” and that knowledge that knows all the qualites-that is the thing in its entirity is called praman. The fact becomes apparent that Naya is a part of Pramana which contains it.
Knowledge has been explained in Jain philosophy in two ways-(i) the scientific and (ii) the philosophical. According to the scientific system knowledge is of five kinds--'i) Mati Gnyana, ( knowledge gained by senses and mind ), (ii) Shrut Gnyana. (iii) Avadhi Gnyana (iv) Manah Paryaya Gnyana, (v) Kewal Gnyana. These five kinds have been further divided into two groups by Jain logicians--(i) "Pratyaksha" (ii) "Paroksha". The first two are out in the catagory" Paroksha" and the last three, gained not through Senses, in the first catagor y "Pratyaksha”. There is no point of difference in these differentiations, only they require
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