Reality English Translation of Sarvarthasiddhi

Author(s): S A Jain
Publisher: Jwalamalini Trust Chennai

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I FAITH AND KNOWLEDGE
The path to liberation-Right faith-Reality-The seven categories--Installation-Ways of attaining knowledge Causes that promote right faith-Five kinds of knowledge-Indirect and direct knowledge--Sensory knowledge -The four stages and their subdivisions-Scriptural knowledge-Clairvoyance--Telepathy-The scope of the five kinds of knowledge--Omniscience-Wrong knowledge
The seven standpoints. II THE CATEGORY OF THE LIVING
The distinctive characteristics of the soul, viz. the subsidential, the destructional, the destruction-cum-subsidential, the fruitional and the inherent-Consciousness is the differentia of the soul-Transmigrating and liberated souls -The five cycles—Rational and irrational beings—Souls -Immobile and mobile beings--Physical and psychical senses-The senses and their objects-Rational beings-- Transit from one birth to another-Kinds of birth-Kinds of nuclei --The five types of bodies -The projectable body
-The three sexes--Lifetime that cannot be cut short. III THE LOWER WORLD AND THE MIDDLE WORLD
The infernal regions-Sufferings of infernal beings--Their maximum lifetime—The continents and the oceans-The regions and the mountain chains--The lakes on the mountains and the rivers-The extent of the regions-The two acons, viz. the ascending and the descending cycles of time-Lifetime of human beings—The human regionsThe Aryans and the Barbarians-The regions of labour and enjoyment--The maximum and the minimum life
time of human beings and animals. IV THE CELESTIAL BEINGS
The four orders of celestial beings-The subclasses of the four orders-The ten grades of devas-The nature of their happiness-The names of the subclasses of the three orders-The stellar devas and conventional time-The heavenly beings-Characteristic differences among themTheir thought-complexions-Demarcation of the kalpasLaukantika devas-Devas with two final births-The animal world-Lifetime of devas-The minimum lifetime
of infernal beings. V THE CATEGORY OF THE NON-LIVING
The non-soul substances-The souls-Other views of
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