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and by renouncing attachment, repulsion and delusion is required. He further adds : Practice of adoptable (upādeya) principles is right conduct.“! In one of his letters he says that the valour for right conduct increases in proportion to the purity of the right faith achieved, as a result of which stability in nature of the soul takes place, which ultimately leads to liberation." In his 'Ātma-siddhi' Śrīmad has said that for achieving right conduct, it is necessary that one increases knowledge of the soul (ātma-bodha) and vītarāgatā (passionlessness) i.e. destruction of passions like anger, pride, deceit, greed, delusion, attachment, aversion etc.. The same thought is expressed by Kundakundācārya, stating that right faith, knowledge of the soul (ātmajñānā) and passionslessness (vītarāgatā), and right understanding (sanyak-buddhi) and very dispassionate attitude (śānta-bhāva) towards pleasures of senses is the path of liberation.43' Again he has stated that whoever unfailingly practises right knowledge and right faith, the two being the inherent qualities of the soul, his right conduct is also pure as stated by the Jinas. In his Ābhyāntara pariņāmăvalokana 'śrīmad has described the inner state of such an aspirant by quoting the following sentence from ‘Daśavaikālika sutra' : “Avi appano vi dehammi nāyaraniti mamāiyani ”, which
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