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जीवाधिकार
1 - THE SOUL
The expounder of the Doctrine, Lord Jina, has preached that the excellent path of dharma (that leads to liberation, the state of supreme happiness) consists in right faith (samyagdarśana), right knowledge (samyagjñāna) and right conduct (samyakcăritra). The opposite path – wrong faith, wrong knowledge and wrong conduct - leads to wandering in the world (samsāra).
The wrong path can never lead one to the desired goal. As liberation is beyond the experience of those who have not trodden the right path, only the Omniscient (kevalī) is able to expound the meaning of liberation and the path leading to it. On the strength of the Doctrine expounded by Lord Jina, learned preceptors (ācārya) have explained through profound compositions that right faith, right knowledge and right conduct, together, must be understood to constitute the path to liberation.
