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PRAVACHANASARA false knowledge and cruelty unto beings. It is by scriptural study that one is enlightened and the bond of karmic forces is loosened.
Substance, qualities and their modifications are known as Artha and the soul is a substance endowed with these. He, who realizes himself as constituted of knowledge and others as only related accessories--still all the while distinct-effects absolute liberation from misery. Belief in the nature of Reality is a qualification of a Sramana. Sramana is he who has put an end to delusion, who is skilled in scriptures and who has established himself in discipline.
BOOK II The range of knowability is constituted of substances endowed with qualities and modifications—those who leave the substance and run after modifications are false-believers. The substance, endowed as it is with qualities and modifications ever undergoes production, permanence and destruction without abandoning its initial nature_this constitutes its natural existence and is known as existential entity. Of the modifications which constitute a substance, there can be no production, permanence and destruction one without the other-30 the substance is made of all these three. All the three are present in a substance at one and the same moment. One modification vanishes, other originates—the initial one is the same all the while. Similar is the case with qualitative modifications. (Here the author explains the meanings Prithaklda, Anyatua and Abhava). There can be no qualities, nor modifications without the substance which is a substriatm thereof. So a substance may be permanent or otherwise as we look at it from Drabyarthika or Paryayarthika Naya. The soul undergoes different births and assumes for the time being a different shape &c. still the soulessence is the same. This gives rise to the famous-sevenfoldpredicate-system of Syadoada.
There is no absolute permanence as such; every activity has its fruit. It is the fruition of Namakar man which gives
various shapes of body that do not really belong to the nature of Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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