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manner. Owing to his lasting samyaktva, all his activities were endowed with samyak gynaana {enlightened knowledge). He lived with his vast family but despite that his disposition was detached and he was free from the bondage of attachment and aversion.
Lord Mahavira has said clearly in the Uttaraadhyayan Suutra that, irrespective of where one may live, in the forest or in a palace, the samyakdrishti remains equanimous.
The mind of a samyakdrishti is like gold. The mind of a mithyaadrishti (one who has false belief} is like iron. If left in water, iron begins to rust. But if you leave gold in water, nothing happens to it. The mind of a samyakdrishti is very strong. His perception is unblemished. Hence it remains free from the rust of attachment and aversion.
Aachaarya Kundakunda has said that,
"Sammattasalilapavaaho niccam hiyae pavahaaye jassa
kammam baaluyavaranam naasaye tassa"
~ Darsana Prabhritam, verse 7 (Author: Aachaarya Kundakunda, Shantinagar Jain Sidhdhaant Prakashini Sansthaa, (Shantiveernagar) Mahaveerji, (Rajasthan))
If one's heart overflows with the water of samyaktva, the dirt of bound karmas is washed away and his spiritual purity goes on increasing.
Both samyakdrishti (enlightened) and mithyaadrishti (deluded) people observe and live in this transmigratory world. But there is a huge difference in the way their perceive things and in the way they behave. Even if both of them have the same amount of wealth and glory, how they use it and how they perceive it is markedly different.
The samyakdrishti is certain that even though he lives in this world, there is no need to run away from it. He knows that there is nowhere to run to. He is surrounded by sansaara from all sides.
Thus, samyaktva teaches the most important art of all, to live in sansaara but remain unaffected by it. One lives in sansaara but sansaara need not live inside one. If sansaara lives inside one, he shall never be able to escape it, no matter where he turns.
Living in sansaara or observing it does not harm the soul as long as one does not submerge in it. Knowing about sansaara is not harmful. It is being attached to it that is harmful. One who has samyaktva looks at it purely as a knower and seer.
One who lacks samyaktva seeks to experience sansaara and wants to remain involved in it. He feels attachment and aversion towards it and all things pertaining to it. He is on a downward spiral. He is stuck in the web of joy and sorrow.
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