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पुरुषार्थसिद्ध्युपाय
33. The Omniscient Lord has called right knowledge (samyagjñāna) as the effect and right faith (samyagdarśana) as the cause. Therefore, it is appropriate to venerate and acquire right knowledge after the acquisition of right faith.
कारणकार्यविधानं समकालं जायमानयोरपि हि । दीपप्रकाशयोरिव सम्यक्त्वज्ञानयोः सुघटम् ॥
अन्वयार्थ (समकालं) समान काल में अर्थात् एक काल में ( जायमानयोः अपि) उत्पन्न हुए भी ( सम्यक्त्वज्ञानयोः ) सम्यग्दर्शन और सम्यग्ज्ञान में ( कारणकार्यविधानं ) कारण- कार्य भाव ( दीपप्रकाशयोः इव ) दीप और प्रकाश के समान (सुघटं ) भले प्रकार घटित होता है।
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Surely right faith (samyagdarśana) and right knowledge (samyagjñāna) arise in the soul simultaneously, still there exists a relationship of cause and effect between the two, as between the lamp and the light.
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Right faith and right knowledge - cause and effect relationship Acharya Pujyapada's Sarvarthasiddhi:
...faith and knowledge arise in the soul simultaneously. For instance, when the clouds disappear, both the heat and the light of the sun are manifested simultaneously. Similarly, when right faith is attained by the soul owing to the subsidence, destruction, or destruction-cum-subsidence of faith-deluding karmas, right sensory knowledge and right scriptural knowledge are attained by the soul at the same time by removal of wrong sensory and wrong scriptural knowledge... It
