Tattvartha Sutram

Author(s): Adishwarprasad Jain
Publisher: Adishwar 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 Tbus a simultaneous pursuit of right belief, right knowledge and right conduct is enjoined here
Of those three, right belief is the basis upon which the other two rest. It is an essential preliminary to right knowledge. It is the cause and night knowledge is the effec:, 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 to find night belief mentioned first then right knowledge and lastly right conduct
SUTRA 2 हत्त्वार्य श्रद्धानं सम्यग्दर्शनम् ॥ २॥ Tatvarthe-eradhanam Samyagdarsadam. (2) Belief or conviction in thiogg ascertained as they are, (18) night belief
SR Tatvartha At Tatva really means tharness, a thing as it 18, Artha means that which is ascertained 97 Tatvaratha means things ascertained as they are
Tatvas may be translated as the Principles of Jainism तत्त्वार्य Tatyartha-तत्त्वेनबर्थ
»-By thatness ascertained object Object which is ascertained by thatness
That which is ascertained by it own thatness
-Objects as they are. tona Sanyaktia or 7975787, Samyagdarsna, is of 2 kinds
177 Sarag Samyaktra, belief with attachment This is indexed by the 4 signs of -
(1) 5557 Prashama, calmness, non-operation of error-feeding passions and of deluding Karmas
(2) 997 Samvega, fear of mundane existance in 5 cycles of
wanderings -- Dravyo, matter, 5 Kshetra, plece, 7 Kala, time, AR bhara, thought-condition of existance, bhava, thought-activity
(3) 556-91 Anukampa, compassion for all living beings (mobile, 78 Trasa and 7 Sthaar ara, im-mobile)