Reality English Translation of Sarvarthasiddhi

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

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SARVĀRTHA SIDDHI "AN EXPOSITION OF REALITY"
By Śrāmatpūjyapādācārya
CHAPTER I
VALID KNOWLEDGE मोक्षमार्गस्य नेतारं मेत्तारं कर्मभूभृताम् ।
शातारं विश्वतरवानां वन्दे तद्गुणलब्धये ॥ Mokşamārgasya netāram bhettārar karmabhūbhrtām
Jñālāràrn viśvatattvānāṁ vande tadguinalabdhaye I bow to the Lord, the promulgator of the path to liberation, the destroyer of mountainsi of karmas and the knower of the whole of reality, so that I may realize these qualities.
Some wise person, who is desirous of obtaining what is good for him and who is capable of attaining liberation in & short time, approaches a lonely and delightful hermitage capable of affording peace of mind to the potentialsouls. There he sees the preceptor, seated in the midst of the congregation of monks as the embodiment of the path to liberation, as it were indicating the path by his very form even without uttering words. He comes before this great passionless saint, skilled in reasoning and in the scriptures, who is worthy of veneration by noble persons and whose chief task is to preach what is good to all living beings. The disciple asks him with reverence, '0, Master, what is good for the soul? ' The saint says, ' Liberation'. He again asks the saint, 'What is the nature of this liberation, and what is the way to - 1 mountains: large heaps.
2 potential: capable of attaining liberation or purity or emancipation,