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The PATH OF NIRVANA OR LIBERATION
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Therefore from the practical stand-point, the path is three-fold, but from the real stand-point, it is the self only.
When one's own self is believed in and known as it is in its own essence and is realized as such-then pure concentration of one's own self appears. It is the real three-fold path or the self itself.
Sri Umaswami says in his Tattvartha sutra : सम्यग्दर्शनशानचारित्राणि मोक्षमार्गः. . . . Samayag darsana jnâna châritrâni môksa
inârgah 1. “Combination of right belief, right knowledge and right conduct is the way to liberation.''
This three-fold path has been described in all the Jain Sacred Books.
Out of the eight-fold path of the Buddhist philosophy, Samyakdriști or right view and Samyak-sankalpa or right determination are included in Samyag-darsana or right view and Samyag jnâna or right knowledge of the Jain philosophy; while Samyak vachan, right speech, Samayak Karmânte, right action, Samyak âjiva right livelihood, Samyak oyayâma right effort, Samyak smriti right mindfulness, Samyak samadhi right concentration, these six are included in Samyak châritra right conduct of the Jain philosophy. This fact will be known clearly from the description given further.
I. Samayak darsana or Samyak-dristi Right belief or Right view.
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