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and unbreakable harmony and perfect peace are attained in final liberation (moksha) from mundane bondage.j In due course after this the souls are Siddhas. So it must be known !
XT. THE THREE JEWELS
6. सम्यग्दर्शनज्ञानचारिचाणि मोक्षमार्गः ॥ १ ॥
Tattvārtha-sūtra, i, 1.
Right faith (or perception), right knowledge, and right conduct constitute the way to moksha.
66. निश्चयमिह भूतार्थ व्यवहारं वर्णयन्त्यभूतार्थम् । भूतार्थबोधविमुखः प्रायः सवों ऽपि संसारः ॥ ५ ॥ अबुधस्य बोधनार्थं मुनीश्वरा देशयन्त्यभूतार्थम् । व्यवहारमेव केवलमवैति यस्तस्य देशना नास्ति ॥ ६ ॥ माणवक एव सिंहो यथा भवत्यनवगीतसिंहस्य | व्यवहार एव हि तथा निश्चयतां यात्यनिश्चयज्ञस्य ॥ ७ ॥ व्यवहारनिश्चयो यः प्रबुध्य तत्त्वेन भवति मध्यस्थः । प्राप्नोति देशनायाः स एव फलमविकलं शिष्यः ॥ ८ ॥ Purushārtha-siddhyupāya, by Amrita-chandra Suri,5-8.
The niśchaya mode (of statement) they describe as real ; the vyavahāra mode as not real. All mundane souls are mostly opposed to knowledge of the reality of things. The great saints (muni) teach the non-real mode, so that the ignorant may understand: who so understands only with practical mode. in him there is no teaching. As to a man who has not seen a lion a cat is the only lion, so a man who knows not the real method takes the practical method itself for reality! That disciple alone who understands both the real and
