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MOKSHA MARG PRAKASHAK
Misbelievers Nearer to Attainment of Right Belief (Samyaktva Sanmukha Mithyadrishti)
Now starts the description of misbelievers who are nearer to attaintment of right belief :
Under the state of feeble passions, etc., one got the Kshayopashama (destruction cum subsidence) of knowledge obscuring karmas due to which the Jiva attained the potency of rational thinking about Tattvas; and due to feeble state of delusion (Mohakarma) one got interested in thinking about Tattvas; and because of external association of true deity, preceptor and scriptures, he got the benefit of true sermons.
There, by listening attentively to such sermons about purposeful path of liberation, characteristics of Deva-Guru-Dharma, etc., JivaAjiva, etc., Tattvas, the self-non-self and beneficial-harmful dispositions to the self, he starts thinking deeply thus- "Oh ! I was unmindful of all these things and forgetfully, under delusion, was engrossed in the present embodied form (Paryaya) only, but the duration of this Paryaya is very short; moreover, all sorts of agreeable Nimittas (instrumental causes) are available to me; I must, therefore, understand all these things correctly because therein lies my own real purpose.” With such thinking, he starts pondering over the contents of the sermons which he listened to.
There, the ascertainment of those things is materialised by knowing Uddesha(nomenclature), Lakshana-Nirdesha (differentias or characteristics) and Parizsha (logical examination); therefore, first of all he should learn their names this is Uddesha. Then he should know their differentias or characteristics and afterwards should start examining logically as to whether "whatever is written is possible or not".
There, learning the names and knowing the characteristics, these two things, are based on the sermons; one should memorise these as discoursed; however, in the process of their verification, one's own rational thinking is required. Therefore, one should ponder over them judiciously in his Upayoga (active consciousness) in solitude that “whether the facts are as sermonised or otherwise?"
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