Book Title: Key to Happiness
Author(s): Jayesh Mohanlal Sheth
Publisher: Shailesh Punamchand Shah

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________________ (ultimate truth), chitta (pure awareness) and ananda (eternal blissfulness). That is why one should understand that if there is anything worth aiming for in this human life/birth, it is acquiring nischaya Samyagdarshana. That should be the first and the foremost goal to achieve so that one gets entry into mokshamaarga and by perseverance one can attain emancipation thereafter. Here it is necessary to understand that, the Samyagdarshana defined as so called faith, that one has for the real Dev-Guru-Dharma (Lord, spiritual guide and religion), or so called faith for the nav tattvas (nine substances i.e. jeeva=living being, ajeeva=non living being like matter, time, ether, space, etc., asrava=influx of karma, bandha=bondage of karma with Soul, punya=meritorious/righteous deeds, paapa=sins/ evil deeds, sanvara=stoppage of influx of karma, nirjara=partial release of bonded karmas, moksha=complete release of the bonded karmas) may be just vyavahaarika-upacharroopa (formal, unreal or outer but not truly spiritual, just symbolic) Samyagdarshana which is not considered as a qualification for the entry to mokshamaarga, but the Samyagdarshana with experienced identity of one's real self, the Samyagdarshana which is coupled with bhedgnyaana (discrimination, experience of being different from body) is known KEY TO HAPPINESS 9

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