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As already mentioned all progress depends upon samyaktva, samyaktva having been described as the control of the three darshana mohaniya karmas and the four anantānubandhis. Concentration and philosophy proper cannot be exercised until this state called samyaktva is obtained.
If you are in the state of samyaktva then you Signs of will have certain very definite convicsamyaktva. tions, concerning three principles, namely concerning the principle of the Deity, the principle of the Teacher (Guru), and the principle of Dharma (right life, duty). The Deity, as underThe Deity. stood in this system of philosophy, is the highest ideal that we keep before the mind, and with the object that we may ultimately become like him. It does not mean a Deity who issues laws that must be obeyed, or a creator of the universe. One must have an ideal, an ideal manhood, that he wishes to attain to; and if not to be attained in the body as the Master was, still to reach the liberated state where all persons are in a state of equality. The attaining to this ideal will be the aim and end of all the actions during life, and so if we get a wrong ideal man, then in trying to become so we lead wrong lives. The ideal man should be called the Deity (Deva). The Deity (Deva) is a person living as a human being in the midst of his brothers and sisters, not his children. There are millions of Devas (The tirthankara is the Master) who were
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