Reality English Translation of Sarvarthasiddhi

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

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OTHER WAYS OF ATTAINING KNOWLEDGE
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method of ascertaining the soul etc. is mentioned next.
निर्देशस्वामित्वसाधनाऽधिकरणस्थितिविधानतः ॥७॥ Nirdeśasrāmitvasādhanādhikaranasthitividhānatah (7) 7. (Knowledge of the seven categories is attained) by description, ownership, cause, resting place (substratum), duration and division.
Nirdeśa is the description of the true nature of anything. Svāmitvam is ownership or lordship. Sadhanam is the cause of origin. Adhikaranam is location. Sthiti is duration. Vidhānam is division. What is right faith? It is faith in substances as they really are or installation of right faith by name etc. Who is its possessor ? Generally speaking it is the soul. Now to particularize according to the states of existence. In the infernal state -- in all the infernal regions -- the subsidential and the destruction-cum-subsidential types of right faith are possessed by infernal beings who have attained completion. In the first infornal region, right faith arising from destruction and that arising from destruction-cum-subsidencc are possessed by the beings, who have and have not attained completion. In the animal state, the subsidential right faith is possessed by animals who have attained completion. The other two are possessed by thoso who have and have not attained completion. But that arising from destruction is not attained by the female animals. The subsidential and the destruction-cumsubsidential can be acquired only by those female animals who have attained completion. In the human state of existence, right faith acquired from destruction as well as from destruction-cum-subsidence arises in the case of both types of men, those who have and have not attained completion. But the subsidential right faith arises only in those who bave attained completion, and not in those who have not. In the case of women all the three are present, but only in those who have attained completion. But the destructionall right faith is found in persons with psychical (bhāvaveda) female sex-incli
1 'Destructional' has been coined to convey the meaning 'arising from destruction'.