Pristine Jainism

Author(s): S M Jain
Publisher: Parshwanath Vidyapith

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Samyaktva (Rationality) : (17) affairs as they are without any bias and is objective rather than subjective. He has to be free from follies of falling prey to the worldly allurements of pseudo Gods, Goddesses, Saints and Scriptures. He practises detachment from sensuous worldly pleasures, tries to moderate, minimise his strong feelings of anger, pride (ego), hypocrisy and greed. He is kind and compassionate to all life forms, serves them with best of his ability to mitigate their sufferings. He is resolute to climb up the ladder to achieve complete salvation as early as possible by taking up vows more and more stringently as prescribed in the code of conduct at various stages of forward march.
Rational Trinity:
The rational, right path to salvation has been very clearly codified by Umāsvāmi (Umāsvāti) in the very first stanza in his treatise" Tattvārtha Sūtra” or “Moksa Šāstra"
ARTGRAFIESifurterf: 119.7.811 {Rational belief, knowledge and conduct all three called Jewels (Ratnatraya) combined as if one simultaneously only leads to salvation]
Here in the original Sanskrit stanza there is deliberate grammatical mistake of using Arf: (Singular) instead of correct Arfi: (Plural) to emphasise combined simultaneous oneness of the three. There has been tendency to detach particularly conduct (Cāritra) and stress only rational belief and knowledge. It is strange that Samyagdarśana (Rationality) has been attributed to a non-observer of basic five vows (Avirati Samyagdisti). Acārya Samantabhadra clearly states in Ratnakaranda-śrāvakācāra that Jaina householder must observe five vows of Non-violence, Truth, and Non-stealing. Non possession beyond necessity and marital celibacy and should not take non-vegetarian food, alcohol and other drugs and honey:
'मद्यमांसमधुत्यागैः सहाणुव्रतपंचकम्'
Ratnakaranda-śrāvakācāra 3.66