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SANMATI-TARKA
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[ III, 54, 55 अत्थि अविणासधम्मी करेइ वेएइ अस्थि णिव्वाणं । अत्थि य मोक्खोवाओ छ स्सम्मत्तस्स ठाणाई ॥ ५५ ॥
(54) There is no soul; It is not eternal ; It does not do ; It does not experience; It has no emancipation, and there is no remedy for emancipation, these six theories are receptacles of false knowledge.
(55) There is soul ; It is eternal : It does ; It experiences ; It can be liberated and there is a remedy for liberation all these six theories are abodes of right knowledge.
Here in these verses we find a statement of those dogmas of the rival schools which come in our way c£ spiritual developement and a statement also of those which help us in accomplishing spiritual progress.
Dogmas which interfere with the accomplishment of spiritual progress are based on a unistaken view while those wbich are instrumental in bringing about spiritual evolution are grounded on a right view-point. Those schools of dogmas are mentioned as under in due order:
(1) It is called Anātmavāda which does not recognize any Tattva (reality) such as Atman (soul) : (2) Kşaộikātmavāda is that which acknowledges sonl but its Atman is not eternal and hence destructible ; (3) A school, which accepts that there is soul and it is eternal
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