________________ Pancastikaya-samgraha (bhavya) soul listens to the sabda-samaya and comes to know its meaning; this is the jnana-samaya, the arthajnana, the bhavagama, or the bhavasruta. The true nature of the substances as revealed by the sabda-samaya and known by the jnana-samaya is called the arthasamaya or the arthagama. The potential (bhavya) soul, with help from the artha-samaya or the arthagama, gets established in own pure-soul - jivastikaya. He thus puts a stop to transmigration in the four states-of-worldly-existence (gati). He attains the fifth state-of-existence, i.e., liberation (nirvana, moksa), marked by infinite and eternal happiness. Since the sabdasamaya is the starting point for attainment of this state of supreme happiness, the Acarya makes obeisance to the Scripture (samaya or agama). Acarya Kundakunda's Niyamasara: तस्स मुहग्गदवयणं पुव्वावरदोसविरहियं सुद्धं / आगममिदि परिकहियं तेण दु कहिया हवंति तच्चत्था // 8 // उन परमात्मा (आप्त) के मुख से निकला हुआ वचन, जो कि पूर्वापर - आगे और पीछे - दोष से रहित है और शुद्ध है, उसे 'आगम' कहा गया है और 34 (3114) & Get the T A Teacef (Gal) d Words emanating from the mouth of the Supreme Lord (apta, paramatma), free from the fault of inconsistency - contradiction between an earlier and a subsequent statement - and pure, constitute the Scripture (agama). The Scripture expounds the nature of the substances - tattvartha.
