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PREFACE : XLIX
introduction under the following heads: –
1. Right-vision : An appreciation, 2. A Critical Introduction of Pañcalingīprakaranar, and 3. Life and works of Srimad Jineśvarasūri.
RIGHT-VISION: AN APPRECIATION
Everyone's Own Peep-hole -
A. G. Gardiner, the famous essayist, said, “Everyone looks at the world outside him through his own peep-hole”, this underlines the importance of having the right view. In the presence of the rightview the things appear in their right perspective and in its absence even the right things appear to be wrong and vice versa. The Jaina thinkers have delved deep on the subject of having the right-view or the right-vision or the right-belief or the right-faith or the rightinclination or the right-attitude or the right perspective. So much so that they consider it to be the very basis of the faith at the very root of it when they say that the faith is founded on the (right) view itself (Damsaņa mūlao dhammo). Another view has it that those of corrupt conduct can correct themselves and liberate but those of corrupt vision cannot liberate. Here, we present the essential features of the RightView, as seen by the Jaina seers of yore and interpreted by the saints and scholars down the ages.
Śreyas, Jaina Dharma : Jīvan Dharma, Agam Ahimsa Samata Evam Prakrit Samsthan, Udaipur, 2004, pp. 93-110.
