Tattvartha Sutram

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

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Tatvartha Sutram.
Partial Visual knowledge is fallible, the remaining two are infallible In these two there is no wrong belief or vowlessness (e.g. Gommatasara, Jua Kanda, Gatha 374).
SUTRA 23
ऋजुविपुलमतिमनःपर्यायः ॥२३॥
Riju Vipulamati manah Paryayah. Mental knowledgc (1s of two kinds) -
Ha Rajumatı Simple direct knowledge of complex mental things eg. of what a man is thuiking of now along with what he has thought of it in the past and will think of it
The thoughts which can be duecrly known by mental knowledge, must relate to marter. Simple mental knowledge is of 3 kinds according as the subject of it is the inatter and form of thought about the simple activity of body, mind and speech which has been thought of in the mind of another (see TK 438). It knows the material objects of all the three times, past, present and future thought of by any soul in the present Compler mental hnowledge knows what has been thought of in thi past and will be thought of in the future (J. K 10) It is of hinds as it knows matter and torm of thonght about simple and complex cuvity of body, mind and speech thought of by another (K. 139)
SUTRA 24 विशुद्ध पनि पाताभ्याम तविषेशः ॥२४॥
Vishuddha Prati patablıyam tadvisheshah. Their differences ( are as to ) purity ( anl) infallibility.
SUTRA 25 विशुद्ध क्षेत्रस्वामि स्वामि विषयोऽध्यां वधि मनः पर्यायः ॥२॥ Vishudeh Kshetra swami vishayobhyam vadhi manah paryayah
Between Visual and Mental knowledge the diffrences relate to their purity, place, person of inherence and subject matter,