Reality English Translation of Sarvarthasiddhi

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

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THE SUBSIDENTIAL CHARACTERISTICS
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one and three kinds respectively. The change of case is in accordance with the meaning. Or those which have two, nine, eighteen, twenty-one and three subdivisions respectively are the five dispositions. Yathākramam means respectively.
The characteristics of the soul arising from subsidence are of two kinds. Those arising from destruction are of nine kinds. Those arising from destruction-cum-subsidence are of eighteen kinds. Those arising on the fruition of karmas are of twenty-one kinds. Those that are inherent in the soul without the influence of karmas are three.
What are the two kinds of characteristics arising from subsidence ?
सम्यक्त्वचारित्रे Samyaktvacăritre
(3) 3. (The two kinds are) right belief and conduct.
Right belief and right conduct have been explained already. How are these subsidential ? Conduct-deluding karmas are of two kinds, namely the passions and the quasi-passions. Therein the passions, which lead to endless worldly existence, are fouranger, pride, deceitfulness and greed. The three kinds of faith-deluding karmas are samyaktva (slightly clouding right belief), mithyātva (wrong belief), and samyakmithyātva (mixed right and wrong belief). When these seven subtypes of karmas subside, right belief of subsidence arises.
How can karmas subside in the case of the eternal misbeliever subject to passions arising from karmas ? It is on the basis of the attainment of the stages of purification such as favourable opportunity and time. First with regard to the attainment of favourable time. The worthy soul (with capacity for emancipation) bound by karmas becomes capable of attaining the first stage of right belief, when there is the residue of time known as half the time of whirling-round matter (ardha pudgala parivarttana). But he is not capable of attaining any higher stage of right belief, when there is half the time of whirling-round matter.
This is the first attainment of favourable time. The second attainment of favourable time is with regard to the duration
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