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Letter 19
127 Because many other religions have their own theories and principles. They also claim that one can attain Moksha or salvation by following them. If you read the fifth chapter titled Vividhamata Samiksha (fafanya
i ) i.e. an analytical study of different religions in Moksha Marga Prakashak arf warlpran you'll get more clarity. That is why in Chhahadhala छहढाला it is said "ताते जिनवर कथित तत्त्व अभ्यास करिजे" which means, therefore one must study the principles told by Jinendra or Arihant only.'
There are seven fundamental principles or Prayojanbhoot Tattva uma dia. Just hold on ! I know you will ask me many questions like "What is Tattva? What is Proyojan? What is Prayojanbhoot Tattva? What are their names ? Why are they only seven ?"
Tattva means Tat Hat + Tvara. Tat means that' or 'which is being discussed' and Tva means 'nature and its quality'. Nature of the thing is Tattva ra. The very nature of the substance under discussion, e.g. senility (वद्धत्व) is the tattva of a senile person (वख).
Prayojan means purpose or intentional cause. If we ask a student as to what is the purpose of his studying a particular subject like medicine, he says that he wants to become a doctor. The purpose of doing business is to eam money and be rich. The purpose of eating food is to pacify hunger.
Similarly, the purpose of each Jeev is to do away with misery and unhappiness and be happy. There are certain principles or things, and unless one knows their real nature and has confirmed belief and conviction about them that, this is so and not otherwise. misery will not end and one will not be happy or attain Bliss. They are called Prayojanbhoot Tattva.
To know and believe, the purposeless things i.e. Aprayojanbhoot Tattva Truter ora as they are or as they are not does not lead to Mithya Darshan or false belief. But to know the purposeful things i.e Prayojanbhoot Tattvas spynt are otherwise, is Mithya Darshan.
Pt. Daulatramji in his Chhahadhala describes Mithya Darshan as " vitafa rutin ira facuffaucura I" It means the false belief in purposeful tattvas or substances like Jeev etc. is Mithya Darshan.
What is our purpose ? To get rid of misery. Whose misery ? of our own soul. And to achieve that it is necessary
(1) First of all for eradicating miseries one must possess the discriminative knowledge of the self and nonself. If one does not have that knowledge of the self and nonself then how can he eradicate his misery without identifying the self?
