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Study of Ctvakacintamani
The three follies which should be avoided in the cultivation of right faith are the devotion to the false divinity, place and teacher. The eight aspects which are necessary to have right faith are :1
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1. Nihankita-absence of doubt about scriptures.
2. Niskaksita-abstinence from worldly pleasures.
3. Nirvicikitsita-to love the person who possesses three jewels without feeling disgust to his body (because Jaina monks are always unclean)
4. Amudhadreti-non-recognition of the authority of the false creeds.
5. Upaguhana-removal of the ridicule raised by incompetent people on the path of
Jainism.
6. Sthitikaraṇa-re-establishing the people who deviate from the truth.
7. Vatsalya-respecting and loving the co-religionists.
8. Prabhavana-establishing the glory of Jainism in all suitable ways. The eight types of prices which the soul should avoid to have the right faith are:
jñānam pūjām kulam jātim balam ṛddhim tapo vapuḥ
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The pride about learning, worship, family, tribe power, accomplishments, religious austerity and body. When the soul gets rid of these eight prides and the three follies and has the eight aspects of right faith and belief in the true ideals, scriptures and teacher, it attains the right faith. These things can be achieved by intuition (nisarga) or by tuition (adhigama) i.e. by nature or through the teachings of others or by reading scriptures,
Right knowledge reveals things exactly as they are with certainty - neither insufficiently nor with exaggeration nor falsely. With the aid of right knowledge the soul prevents the inflow of karmic matter and sheds the acquired karman. It is of five kinds. They are:
1. Matljana-the knowledge acquired by the five senses.
2. Śrutajñāna knowledge acquired by reading scriptures.
3. Avadhi Jnana-the transcendental knowledge of material things.
4. Manaḥ paryaya Jadna-the transcendental knowledge of the thoughts and feelings of others.
5. Kevala-jana-the perfect knowledge which the soul attains when it is entirely liberated from destructive karmas.
With the knowledge of the right faith and right conduct one should follow the right conduct. Right conduct" must be such" as Jaini says "as to keep the body down and elevate the soul." These rules of right conduct form the main part of the Jaina
1 Ibid, 11-18. 2 Rk. 25 3 Ts. 1:3 4 Rk. 42 5 Jaini, op. cit. p. 65
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