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Faina Ethics
The necessity of combining the three is brought out in many passages. Just as a person knowing a man to be king, and having faith in him, follows him for money, similarly a person knowing the real path and having faith therein should follow it for liberation.1 Conduct without faith and knowledge is as futile as faith and knowledge without conduct.
Right faith ( samyagdarfana) The meaning of samyagdarśana
Samyagdarśana, which has been rendered as 'right atti. tude', “right faith', or ‘right conviction', indicates complete saturation of mind with a principle or idea. From real point of view, samyagdarśana means a sense of feeling-realisation of self. From practical point of view, samyagdarśana means a firm belief in the fundamental principles of Jainism. The vyavahāra-samyagdarśana may be said to be the means of niscaya samyagdarśana. Different ācāryas have expressed the same idea in different words. We give below some of the representative descriptions of the nature of samyagdarśana :
(1) The Uttarādhyayana defines samyaktva as belief in the nine categories.In his Darśanapāhuda, Kundakunda also defines samyagdarśana as a firm belief in the six substances and nine categories. In Moksapāhuda, he expresses the same idea in different words by defining samyagdarśana as belief in the dharma devoid of violence, in faultless deity and in the way of life, prescribed by the omniscients.5 In Niyamasāra, samyagáarśana is explained as a belief in liberated souls, Jaina scriptures and Jaina principles. In Mülācāra, the samyagdarśana is defined as belief in nine categories.?
(2) Svāmikārtikeya added belief in non-absolutism as a condition for samyagdarśana.8 He held that the nature of nine
1. Samayasāra, 17-18. 2. Darśanapāhuda, Delhi, 1943, 20.
Uttarādhyayana, 28.14,15. 4. Darśanapähuậa, Delhi, 1943, 19. 5. Mokşapāhuda, Delhi, 1943, 90. 6. Niyamasāra, Lucknow, 1931, 57. Mülācāra, 5.6. 8. Kartikeyānuprekṣā, 311, 312,
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