Trishasti Shalaka Purusa Caritra Part 1

Author(s): Hemchandracharya, Helen M Johnson
Publisher: Oriental Research Institute Vadodra

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(kşayopasąmika)-right-belief, is called vedaka (vedya).262 The fifth kind of right-belief, named kṣāyika,belongs to a creature with pure psychical condition, who has destroyed the seven (prakstis).264
Right-belief is Ehree-fold from the stand-point of qualities (guņas), namely rocaka, dipaka, and kāraka. In the case of a firm uprising of confidence in the principles described in the scriptures, without reason and illustration, that is rocaka. It is called dipaka, when it is a light for right-belief for others; kāraka, when it is the cause of restraint, penance, etc. Moreover, right-belief is marked by five characteristics : equanimity, desire for emancipation, disgust with existence, compassion, belief in principles of truth. Equanimity (sama) is the non-rising of the worst degree of passions, either by nature or from the sight of the results of passions. It is called desire for emancipation (samvega) when there is disgust with the objects of the senses on the part of one meditating on the results of karma and the worthlessness of samsāra. This thought of the one desiring emancipation, “Dwelling in samsāra is like a prison ; relatives are like bonds," is called disgust with existence (nirveda). Tenderness
202 605. Some authors omit vedaka. It is the summit of kşayopaśamika and the foundation of ksayika. It lasts only I Samaya, and a jiva possesses it only once. Its name is derived from the fact that in it one experiences the matter of right-belief. It belongs to gunasthānas 4-7.
268 606. This is imperishable in reality, as even siddhas possess it, but so far as one birth is concerned its minimum duration is an antarmuhūrta and its maximum 33+ sāgaropamas. It may be acquired in any guṇasthāna from fourth to twelfth and lasts through the fourteenth. It can be attained only in a human birth, but may be retained in other births, as it is never lost. Furthermore, it can be attained only in Jinakāla, i.e., when it is possible for a Tirthankara to appear. For Bharatakşetra this is in the third and fourth divisions of avasarpiņi.
204 607. The 7 prakstis are the 3 darśanamohanīyakarmas and the worst degree of the 4 passions. See App. II.