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misery ends and real happiness evolves and without their right belief misery continues and happiness does not evolve.
And besides above stated Padarthas (substances) there are other innumerable substances; all those are unpurposeful because possessing or not possessing their right belief is in no way the cause of happiness or misery.
Question: Basically, you have described Jiva and Ajiva the two substances, in which rest all substances are covered; besides them, what other sustances are left out which are described as unpurposeful?
Answer:All substances are, of course, covered in Jiva-Ajiva but there are many specialities of those Jiva-Ajiva substances. Out of those specialities of Jiva-Ajiva, the right belief of such specialities which leads to the right belief of self and non-self, gives rise to the belief of forsaking Raag (attachment) etc. and will produce happiness; and by having wrong belief, of which the right belief of self and non-self is not evolved, the belief of forsaking attachment, etc. is not generated and will result in misery. Knowledge of Jiva & Ajiva substances with such specialities is to be known as purposeful. Moreover, the Jiva-Ajiva substances with their those specialities are to be known unpurposeful by having or not having the right belief of which the belief of self and non-self may or may not get generated and the belief of uprooting attachment, etc. may or may not get evolved; there is no surity.
For instance, having belief of Jiva and body (person) with Chaitanya (consciousness) and Murtatva (corporality) etc. respectively is purposeful and having belief of human, etc. embodied and jar, cloth, etc. forms of matter (specific forms of Jiva & matter) is unpurposeful. Similarly, other examples are to be known.
Thus, wrong belief of the aforesaid purposeful Jiva etc. Tattvas should be known as Mithyadarshan (perverse faith).
The Tendency of Wrong Belief Now the tendency of wrong belief found in mundane beings is described here. Though belief is to be described, yet the description is being given with emphasis on cognisance, because belief follows knowledge.
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