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METAPHYSICS: XVC. RIGHT CONDUCT
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From this point of view sense- and study-knowledge applies to all substances, but only in some of their modifications. Far-knowledge applies to coloured substances, but not to all their modifications. Mindreading applies to all coloured objects, even in their infinitesimal parts. (See Tattrūrtha-sūtra, 25-7.)
Full Knowledge K'evalu-jñāna, full or pure or perfect knowledge, applies to all things and to all their modifications. It is, in fact, a characteristic of the soul entirely liberated from the bondage of matter.
To conclude, a soul can have one, two, three, or four kinds of knowledge at one and the same time. If one kind, it must be perfect knowledge; if two kinds, it is the sense- and the study-knowledge; if three kinds, it is the sense- and the study- and the past-knowledge; if four kinds, it is all except perfect knowledge (73).
C. RIGHT CONDUCT (78) This is the third jewel of Jainism. It consists in living a life in accordance with the light gained by the first two jewels: right conviction and right knowledge. The subject is dealt with at more length under Ethies (infru, pp. 67-73). Here its character may just be noted.
The goal is moksha, or final liberation (79). The barrier is the karmic matter which obscures the true nature of the soul. From this the principles of right conduct are easily derivable. Right conduct must be such as to keep the body down and elevate the soul : it ineans not doing bad actions and doing good ones. In
