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arises that what one must do to attain Samyagdarshana?
Answer - The Lord has said that "all the living beings are equal to emancipated Lord", it is essential to understand this. The worldly living beings are confined within body and the emancipated Lords are free from karmas and body, then on what basis did Lord term the worldly jeevas as equal to emancipated Lord? Answer - The base is shuddha (pure) dravyayarthicnaya (absolute/real view point of the substance). Though worldly living beings are confined within the body, their soul gets manifested as jeevatva bhaava a parinamika bhaava (the manifestation of the Soul). That manifestation of the Soul is found impure in a non-emancipated living being. There are eight types of such manifestations of the Soul, for example- kashaayaatma (those with anger, pride, deceit or greed), yogaatma (manifestation of Soul as thinking, speech, etc.), etc. From that impure manifestation of the Soul, after ignoring the impurities (vibhavbhaava), the pure Soul remains which is known by many names such as paramparinamika bhaava (natural manifestation of the Soul), shuddha bhaava (pure manifestation), Shuddhaatma (pure self), kaaranparmaatma (foundation for becoming Lord), siddhasadashbhaava (bhaava similar to emancipated Lord), svabhaava bhaava (natural pure
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