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difficult. Therefore, the capable souls should practise the religion as is being preached by true preceptor.
The Nature of Liberation Path Now the nature of liberation path is being described:- On total destruction of delusion, etc. karmas, due to whose instrumentality, the soul became miserable by undergoing alien (impure) state, the evolution of absolutely pure state of the soul is called Moksha (liberation). And the means or cause of the same is to be known as the path of liberation.
There, the causes (means) are of various types. 1. Some causes are such without which the act cannot be accomplished and on whose existence, the act may or may not be accomplished. For example, without accepting monkhood, liberation can not be attained but on accepting monkhood liberation may or may not be attained. And 2. some causes are such by which chiefly the act is accomplished but even without which the act may be accomplished. For example, by observance of external penances like fasting, etc., chiefly, liberation is attained but Bharat Chakravarty, etc. attained liberation even without observing the external penances. And3.some causes are such by which accomplishment of the act invariably takes place and without which the act can never be accomplished. For example, on union of right belief, knowledge and conduct, liberation is invariably attained and in their absence, liberation can never be attained. Such are the causes; amongst them, the union of right belief, knowledge and conduct is invariably the path of liberation which alone magnanimously, and as a rule, is the means of liberation. Amongst these right belief, knowledge and conduct even if one of them is not there, liberadtion path is not possible.
The same is stated in Tattvarth Sutra:oppfadfishafifo Harf." (Trapefr-1/1)
In the commentary of this Surta (aphorism) it is stated that here the word Art is a singular word which means that the union of all the three is one path of liberation; there are no three separateseparate paths of liberation.
Question: The vowless true believer does not possess the conduct; has he attained liberation path or not?
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