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XLVIII : PAÑCALINGĪPRAKARAŅAM
ultimate accomplishment of eternal bliss. Many other works also reiterate that one who has a corrupted vision is the really corrupt one; one of corrupt conduct can liberate but one of corrupt vision cannot;2 that one of pure vision is the really pure one, and that it is only the one with right vision that can destroy the falsehood responsible for worldly transmigration."
Describibg the virtues of a person with right vision, the scriptures say that such a person binds only very slight karmic bondages for his actions; 5 that whatever he does is for the sake of karmic separation; 6 that the rightly inclined souls are free of doubt, and consequently, free of fear as well; ? that they are constantly absorbed in self-contemplation only; 8 and that they are in the know of the worthy and the unworthy.
Because of this significant importance of the subject of rightvision, it has been widely and deeply discussed and analysed in the Jaina philosophical works. Pañcalingīprakaranam by Śrimad Jineśvarasūri is also a work of the same genre.
Appreciating the gravity of the subject, we have dealt with this
Uttarādhyayanasūtra, 28.30. Bhaktaparijñā, 66. Mokşapāhuda, 39. Uttarādhyayanasūtra, 29.61. Vandittusūtra, 36. Samayasāra, 193. Ibid, 228. Bhāvapāhuda, 31. Sūtrapāhuda, 5.
