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16.PRECEPTS ON THE PATH OF LIBERATION
(192) "The path" and the "result of (following) the path" these two things have been proclaimed in the discipline preached by the Jinas. Really 'right faith' is the path and liberation is the result.
(193) The faith, the knowledge and the conduct together constitute the path of liberation;this is the path to be followed. The saints have said that if it is followed in the right way it will lead to liberation and otherwise it will lead to bondage.
(194) If a wise person ignorantly considers that by doing pure (i.e. religious) performance he will be free from sorrow then he is the follower of an alien view i.e.wrong faith.
(195) An abhavya Jiva (a soul inherently incapable of attaining liberation),even if he observes the five vows, the five types of vigilence, the three fold self-control, the code of morality and the various modes of austerities as laid down by the Jina lacks right understanding and possesses wrong faith.
(196) It is preached by the Jina that all the actions of a person who does not know the three jewels from the empirical and real points of view,are wrong.
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