Tattvartha Sutram

Author(s): J L Jaini
Publisher: Champat Rai Jain

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Tatyartha Sutrum
conduct. We can go up the ladder only when all the three are sound. The absence of one makes ascent impossible. Thus a simultaneous pursuit of nght belief, right knowledge and right conduct is enjoined here,
Of those three, right belief is the basis upon which the other two rests. It is an essential preliminary to right knowledge. It is the cause and right knowledge is the effect, Right knowledge always implies it. Similarly right conduct is preceded and caused by right knowledge, and implies both right knowledge and right belief. For this reason, in the aphorism we find right belief mentioned first, thea right knowledge and lastly right conduct
SUTRA 2. तस्वार्थ श्रद्धानं सम्यग्शनम् ॥ २ ॥ Tatvartha-Bradhanam Samyagdarsanam. (2) Belief or conviction in things uncertained as they are, (is) right beliet.
maxref Tatyartha He Tatva really means thatnese, a thing as it 1, rei Artha means that which is ascertained here! Tatvaratha means things ascertained as they are
Tatyas may be translated as the Principles of Jainism तत्त्वार्थ Tatvartha-तखेन-अर्थ.
--By tbatness ascertained object. -Object which is ascertained by thatness. -That which is ascertained by it own thatness
-Objects as they are. Fak Samyaktı 4 or gerasta, Samyagdarsna, is of 2 kinds :
STIFY Tq, Sarag Samyaktva, belief with attachment This is indexed by the 4 signs of :
(i) 7T Prashama, calmness, non-operation of error-feeding passions and of deluding Karmas.
(2) Samvega, fear of mundane existance w 5 cycles af
wanderings : * Dravya, matter Kshetra, place, 712 Kala, time, a bhava, thought-condition of existance, bhava, thought-activity,
(3) 4 9 Anukampa, compassion for all living beings (mobile, 7 Trasa and 4 Sthaavara, im-mobile).