Essentials of Samadhishataka

Author(s): B M Chamke
Publisher: S B Chamke Barshi

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knowledge [ Mithya - dnyana ] and illusory conduct [ Mithya - Charitra ], are the hooks that draw the Jiva in a reverse direction to mundane life, the samsar, in which there are innumerable pains and deceiving pleasures innumerable times more than pains themselves, Precise and clear apprehension of the distinction between the jiva, the self, and ajiva, the not-self, is exactly the Right faith [ Samyaga-darshana ). Right knowledge [ Samyaga-dnyana ), and Right conduct [ Samyaga. charitra ].
The real knowledge of the seven principles is the right fajth. These seven principles which are the outer aspects of the jiva, are not Divinely [ Paramartha swarup ]. The jiva or Atman inhabits at the centre of these principles, as an ultimate cause, the hatching spiritual entity. To know the ultimate nature of the jiva, it is inevitably essential that one must be well trained and well versed in the length and breadth of these seven principles.
The man who has acquired
by streneous