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Chapter - 7
Samayasära kiha hodi sammaditthī jīvājīve ayānamto.. 10 (Hu jassa ragādīnam tu paramāņumettayam pi vijjade) Truly speaking, if there exists even an atom of affection (towards aliens] (so tu savvāgamadharo vi) inspite of being well-versed in scriptures (appanayam na vi jāņadi) one does not know his true self through direct/immediate experience.
(Appāņayam ayānamto) And if one does not (really) know the true self (so anappayam cāvi ayānamto) one is incompetent to know the non-self also. And so (jīvajīve ayāṇamto kiha sammadithi hodi) in the absence of knowledge of self as well as non-self, how can one be designated as enlightened-samyagdrsti?
Annotations :
Here the author gives a factual criterion of the truly Enlightend Soul-Samyagdrsti. Jain philosophy in general and the author in particular, frequently, eulogizes the enlightened soul-samyagdrsti. We have seen that the terms mithyādrsti and mithyādarśana are used to denote the beginningless infection of the soul resulting in perversion of its world-view. In course of time the inherent potency of the soul overcomes the contamination and leads the soul to right world-view and right path. The first awakening of the predilection for truth is called samyagdarśana and the soul who attains it is called samyagdrsti, which are opposite of mithyādarśana and mithyādrśti respectively. And this is what is meant by enlightenment.
But the path of spiritual advancement from the dawn of enlightenment to total annihilation of affection/attachment (rāga) for alien objects, is very long and arduous. The term Vitarāga stands for total freedom from attachment of any kind and is thus exclusively related to self and nothing else whatsoever. It is this vitarāga stage of enlightenment-samyagdrsti-which is so often referred to and eulogized in this treatise by the author. However the term enlightenment-samyagdrsti-is legitimately applicable to any stage from the first awakening to complete absence of affection/ attachment. And, therefore, the above verses clarify that a true samyagdrsti who is regarded free from the bondage of karma is vitarāga, totally free from attachment. Thus, in most verses in this book the term samyagdrsti is synonymous with the term vitarāga
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