Niyamsara

Author(s): Kundkundacharya, Uggar Sain
Publisher: ZZZ Unknown

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NIYAMSARA.
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Non-steadfastness,-This condition arises when right belief is not quite fixed in true nature of things. For example worshipping in one's own temple in preference to the temple built by others. A person who has a steadfast right belief knows that it does not make the slightest difference, whether you worship in your temple or in one built by your neighbour.
The external cause of right belief is to study the Jaina Scrip. tures and to attend upon those who know them fully well, with the object of understanding the principles from them. The internal cause of right belief is the subsidence, or destructive-subsidence, or destruction of the right belief-deluding Karma and of the four error feeding (anantunubandhi) passions. (For details see Gatha 26 Gommatsara Jiva Kanda by Mr. J. L. Jaini S. B. J. Vol V.)
Right knowledge should always be free from doubt, perversity and indifference. A soul possessing right knowledge has clear and correct knowledge of the essential principles and has the capacity of discrimination between what is worth renouncing and what is worth realising.
Along with these two, i.e., right belief and right knowledge, right conduct is an essential factor for the attainment of liberation: because neither any one of the three, nor any two of the three can constitute the path of liberation. Right conduct has been described here as being of two kinds. When austerities, etc., are practised from the practical point of view, with the aim of attaining real right conduct, i. e., self-absorption, they are said to be practical right conduct. Being absorbed in one's own true nature is the real austerity and the same is the real right conduct.
CHAPTER IV. Practical Right Conduct (Vyavahára Charitra) कुलजोणिजीवमग्गण-ठाणाइसु जाणऊण जीवाणं । तस्सारंभणियत्तण-परिणामो होइ पढमवदं ॥५६॥ कुलयोनिजीवमार्गणास्थानादिषु ज्ञात्वा जीवानाम् । तस्यारम्भनिवृत्तिपरिणामो भवति प्रथमव्रतम् ॥ ५६ ॥
56. Thought-activity free from (all) undertakings (injurious to any of) the mundane souls (which are) known as existing in (any of the various) physiques, nuclei, soul