Jinamanjari 2001 04 No 23

Author(s): Jinamanjari
Publisher: Canada Bramhi Jain Society Publication

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with this teaching, the veneration of a guru is the principal religious activity of the śrīmad Rājacandra movement. Together these factors have influenced the social organisation of the śrīmad Rājacandra movement into a collection of individual followers and independent communities that function autonomously without a central administration.
Samyak Darśana
Samyak darśana is a defining moment in the aspirant's religious development. The aspirant who has not experienced samyak darśana has a false view of reality (mithya drsți). Samyak darśana, translated by Jaini as "having the correct view", is conventionally considered as the aspirant's first understanding of true reality. It is the moment when "the soul for the first time glimpses its true nature". For this reason, samyak darśana is also described as 'self-realisation'. It is believed to occur when three events coincide within the aspirant's internal state. These are the activation of bhavyatva, the suppression of the state of mithya dssti, and the suppression of the ānantanubandhi passions.
Bhavyarva is the innate capability of a soul to become liberated from karmic bondage. It is a latent quality not common to all souls, but when activated in a soul that possesses it, liberation is inevitable at some point in the future (it may take many, many lifetimes or a mere forty-eight minutes). Mithya dịşti is caused by the deluding darśana mohaniya karmas. These karmas "prevent a soul's insight into its own nature" and must be suppressed to enable the aspirant's first experience of samyak darśana. Mithya drsti operates in conjunction with the ānantanubandhi passions in the form of "grasping and aggression" which are characteristic of unpurified human behaviour. The anantanubandhi passions must also be suppressed to allow samyak darśana to occur.
The aspirant achieves samyak darśana by suppressing the deluding karmas and the gross passions at the same time that bhavyarva becomes active in the soul. The experience of samyak darśana gives the aspirant a 'correct view of reality, in contrast to the 'deluded view of a non-self-realised person who has not experienced it. In Jain terms, a correct view of reality
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