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PAÑCALINGIPRAKARAŅAM : 153
FIRM BELIEF : THE FIFTH SIGN
Sammadiţthì jīvo jahtthāvohāņugo tao munai / Paralogānusthānam na ghadai jīvam viņā savvam || 78 ||
Samyagdrstih jīvo yathārthabodhanugo tataḥ na jānāti / Paralokānuşthānami na ghatate jīvam vină sarvami || 78 ||
The soul so rightly inclined,
knows by realistic reasoning that Without the soul, the happenings for after-life
cannot happen, and that's that || 78 ||
78. Then, the rightly inclined soul that has gained the ability of realistic reasoning (by listening to the right scriptural discourses) knows that all the happenings connected with the afterlife or the activities to ensure a good afterlife cannot happen unless thaere is a soul to which the happenings of afterlife must happen.
In this introductory verse on the fifth sign of righteousness – firm belief in the existence of the soul – the author establishes the need for having a firm fbeief in the existence of a soul endowed with the quality of consciousness and says that without such a soul it is not possible to have a rebirth and an afterlife.
