Book Title: Samkit Faith Practice Liberation
Author(s): Amit B Bhansali
Publisher: Amit B Bhansali

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________________ How can darkness remain in a country where the Sun is shining? Similarly, souls lit by the dazzling white Sun of samyaktva Do not remain in the darkness of ignorance. Evidently, darkness departs the moment samyaktva appears. Let us understand this with an example: Indrabhuti Gautama was a great scholar. He was very proud of his intellect. On hearing the divine speech of Lord Mahavira, Indrabhuti's arrogance vanished. His doubts vanished. They were replaced by firm conviction. And he achieved that which he had not yet achieved. Lord Mahavira gave him the tripadii (the knowledge of the tripadii is given by the thirthankar to his disciple. The disciple takes this knowledge and creates the Aagams (12 angs)). The knowledge of tripadii drove away Indrabhuti Gautama's arrogance and false belief. The attainment of samyaktva drove away his false beliefs and his mithyaa gynaana {knowledge tainted by false belief turned into samyak gynaana {enlightened knowledge). The knowledge which had hitherto added to his arrogance to the fore now drove him towards self-realisation and focusing on his own consciousness. The emergence of samyaktva turned Gautama's mithyaa gynaana into samyak gynaana. It became the cause of his and others' spiritual upliftment. Samyaktva changed his perception from adhomukhii {headed downwards) to uurdhvamukhii {headed upwards). And the Brahmin Indrabhuti Gautama became the first ganadhara (chief disciple of Lord Mahavira's sangha group of followers All this is thanks to the advent of samyaktva. The purport of citing the above example is to underline that as soon as Indrabhuti Gautama understood the tripadii, he arranged the teachings of Tirthankara Mahavira into 12 limbs (angas). This is the power of samyaktva! When the perception becomes samyak, everything can be perceived directly and correctly. Even things that had seemed odd before, begin to make sense. Samyaktva has the ability to turn knowledge into enlightened knowledge. Of the four accomplishments, the accomplishment of samyak darshana is the most vital Jain scriptures teach the four types of aaraadhanaa {accomplishments: 1. Darshana Aaraadhanaa (the accomplishment of samyak darshana - enlightened perception 2. Gynaana Aaraadhanaa (the accomplishment of samyak gynaana - enlightened knowledge 3. Chaaritra Aaraadhanaa (the accomplishment of samyak chaaritra - enlightened conduct 4. Tapa Aaraadhanaa {the accomplishment of samyak tapa - enlightened penance 263

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