Introduction to Jainism and its Culture

Author(s): Balbhadra Jain
Publisher: Kundkund Gyanpith Indore

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The third group of three misconceptions: to accept someone with wife, kids, and weapons as real God; to accept a clad person as true guru, and to accept violence and other sinful deeds as religion, these are three misconceptions with respect to God, guru, and religion.
The fourth group of six types of wrong worship: to praise and worship vile God, vile guru, and vile religion and their followers.
One who has attained samyagdarśana embraces these eight limbs and avoids the twenty-five faults. All these details are in context of conventional samyagdarśana. In context of conventional and absolute samyagdarśana zealots have been amply rebuked in Jain literature. Those who accept absolute samyagdarśana as the only truth and call conventional samyagdarśana as false, cause of bondage, and worth rejecting, are called
sticklers for the absolute. Those who accept conventional path as the only truth and get stuck into it are called sticklers for the conventional.
SAMYAGJÑĀNA (RIGHT KNOWLEDGE)
The knowledge of fundamental reality is acquired through proof or evidence (pramāņa), reasoning (naya), and analysis and authentication (niksepa), and other intellectual processes. In absence of samyagdarśana that knowledge is called incorrect knowledge. Samyagjñāna (right knowledge) is free of doubt, bias, and delusion. The four Anuyogas (a classification of Jain canon) containing details about spiritual knowledge etc. stated by detached omniscient are correct or the scriptures of other religions are correct, this is a statement of doubt. The thing standing there in darkness is a stump of tree or a man?' This uncertainty is doubtful knowledge. Not knowing substance, attributes and modes from different reference points relative to substance and mode is bias. For example while walking, the foot of a person touches a piece of straw or some other thing and he is not sure what it is. To accept a multivalent thing as singularly permanent or ephemeral is delusion. For example mother of pearl is taken to be silver.