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Social Implication Of Enlightened World View (Samyagdarśana)
Dr. Samani Shashiprajna of the three jewels which leads to the liberation, Samyagdarśana is most important. It is entitled to have Right precedence over Right knowledge and Right conduct because it acts as a pilot in guiding the souls towards liberation. Real discrimination from superstitious ignorance and delusive notions leads to Enlightened worldview in the first instance and then it transforms knowledge into Right knowledge and leads to Right conduct. It reveals the nature of things neither insufficiently, nor with exaggeration, nor falsely but exactly as it is with certainty. Samani Dr. Shashiprajna has beautifully discussed this concept with its limbs and applications to the holistic development of individual as well as society which is the especiality of the article.
- The Editor Of the three jewels, right belief comes first and forms the basis upon which the other two rest. One must, by all possible means, first attain right belief or the basic conviction on the fundamentals because only on its acquisition, knowledge and conduct becomes right. Such right faith should have eight requirements or anga and should be free from the three types of superstitious ignorance and the eight kinds of pridel. The eight angas or pillars which support the right belief are :
(i) Niḥaśarikita: Freedom from doubt. (ii) Niḥkārksita : Freedom from desire for worldly comforts. (iii) Nirvicikitsā : Freedom from aversion towards or regard for
the body. (iv) Amūdhadrsti : Freedom from inclination for the wrong path.
(v) Upagūhana : Redeeming the defects of ineffective beliefs. (vi) Sthitikarana : Sustaining souls in right convictions.
