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understand reality, the path leading to it, examine it, test it, verify it and then, if satisfied, if convinced of its effect build faith on its foundation. The rational faith is a determination to find out the means of the reality without any bias or preconceived notion. It clears confusion, misunderstanding and delusion. Rational faith is achieved through intuition or through acquisition of reasoned knowledge. Once one gets rational faith, understanding or wisdom, it becomes crystal clear on the answer to the workings of the world and of the limits of one's desire. Conviction or confidence grounded in wisdom is especially powerful. Wisdom or rational faith is an important factor in learning to have and accepting awareness, to be present for whatever is happening without the mind or heart contracting for resisting. That is rational faith.Rational faith or enlightened world-view provides the direction in making right choice and living with right discipline. It is the confidence on which one lives his life.
Mahavira said, “Without right faith there is no right knowledge; without right knowledge there is no virtuous conduct; without virtues, there is no annihilation of karmas and without annihilation there is no liberation."
Enlightened world-view begets enlightened knowledge, which in turn begets enlightened conduct. So faith is the cause, knowledge and conduct are effect. Jain seers have held rational faith in high esteem and treated it as the most important goal of human life and regarded it as an indicator of inner spiritual transformation. Right faith is the beginning of spiritual awakening. They have asserted very emphatically that since rational faith puts the soul on the path of liberation for the first time, it must be looked upon as a very valuable spiritual achievement. Until we succeed in
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