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TIRTHANKARA MAHAVIRA AND HIS SARVODAYA TIRTHA
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programme of right faith is, "When I am accepted by even if he does not so desire, I have to take him by force to liberation. If after accepting me, he changes his mind and does not want to be liberated, he is just helpless. Once accepted, I must take him to liberation.
"Even if after accepting me one becomes slack, still I have to take him to liberation in that very life, or, at the most, within the next fifteen lives
"If per chance he gives me up and changes his attitude or acquires deep attachment, still within half a pudgala-paravartana, I must take him to liberation. Such is my programme."84
Right Knowledge
Knowledge is a quality of the soul. To know is within its purview. Knowledge with right faith is right knowledge and knowledge with wrong faith is wrong knowledge. The rightness of knowledge is to be measured not on the basis of worldly standards but against right and wrong faith
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Whatever the standard of redundant worldly knowledge, right wrong, the entire knowledge, the knowledge of one who knows the soul is invariably the right knowledge, and the knowledge of one, apparently the worldly knowledge, right or wrong, is wrong knowledge The word 'right' in right knowledge indicates the existence of right faith and the word 'wrong' indicates the existence of wrong faith.85
Knowledge is of five types, perceptual, scriptural, extrasensory, knowledge of the mind of others and supreme In the case of one with right outlook, the first three, perceptual, scriptural and extra-sensory, are good perceptual, good scriptural and good extra-sensory, and in the case of one with wrong outlook, they are bad perceptual, bad scriptural and bad extra-sensory. Knowledge of the psychology of others and supreme knowledge come only to those with right outlook, and hence these have no
84 Srimad Rajchandra, Samyagdarsan, pp. 9-10 85 Sarvartha Siddhi, Commentary on 1/31-32
