Reality English Translation of Sarvarthasiddhi

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

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14 THE SUBSTRATUM, DURATION AND DIVISIONS OF RIGHT FAITH
the gospel, in some others by witnessing the glory of the Lord Jina and in yet others by the sight of the splendour and miraculous powers of other celestial beings. This applies to celestial beings below Anata kalpa. In the case of devas of Anata, Pranata, Arana and Acyuta kalpas all the other three except the sight of magnificence of devas obtain. Devas of Navagraiveyaka attain right faith, some by recollection of past lives, and some others by listening to discourses on religion. But this question of origin does not arise in the case of the higher celestial beings, those in Anudiśa and Anuttara Vimanas; for they are already born with right faith.
The substratum is of two kinds, internal and external. The soul which is the possessor of right faith is itself the internal substratum of right faith. The cases apply according to the points of view. The sixth case is used when the two are viewed as the possessor and the possessed, and the seventh when viewed as the container and the contained. The external substratum is the mobile channel of the universe. How extensive is it? It is one rajju in diameter and fourteen rajjus in length. The minimum and maximum duration of subsidential right faith is within one mukurta (48 minutes). The minimum duration of right faith resulting from destruction is within one muhurta, and the maximum in the case of mundane living beings is thirty-three sagaro pamas and two purvakotis less eight years and one antarmukurta.
In the case of the emancipated, it has a beginning but no end. The minimum duration of right faith arising from destruction-cum-subsidence is within one muhurta, and the maximum is sixty-six sägaropamas.
In general right faith is one. It is of two kinds from the point of view of its origin, namely by intuition and by listening to discourses. It is of three kinds from the point of view of its divisions into subsidential, destructional and destruction-cum-subsidential. From the point of view of verbal nomenclature it is numerous. It is innumerable on the basis of the believers. It is also infinite on the basis of objects which have to be believed in or which produce right faith.