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INTRODUCTION
✦ In the third chapter was given the advice to tolerate favourable and unfavourable inflictions and to get free of passions like anger. This was because just tolerating pain is not pious; it becomes pious only when one is free of passions. What helps attain freedom from passions is right perception and right knowledge. Therefore, various facets of right knowledge have been described in the fourth chapter. That is why it bears the title Samyaktva or righteousness.
SAMMATTAM: CHAUTTHAM AJJHAYANAM SAMYAKTVA: FIRST CHAPTER
RIGHTEOUSNESS
✦ 'Samyaktva' is the chapter that deals with truth or reality about the fundamentals of spiritual life. The awareness or knowledge of the true form of things is samyaktva.
Here samyaktva should be taken as bhava-samyak or in mental context and not just dravya-samyak or in physical context. In other words samyaktva is righteousness related to feelings, thoughts and attitude, not just things.
✦ Bhava-samyak is of four types which are part of the process of liberation (1) Samyak-darshan (right perception), (2) Samyakjnana (right knowledge), (3) Samyak-charitra (right conduct), and (4) Samyak-tap (right austerities). This chapter, titled Samyaktva, is aimed at defining the fundamentals of these four types of righteousness of attitude.
आचारांग सूत्र
This chapter has four lessons. As the first lesson defines the fundamental reality of things, it discusses the theory of righteousness. It is stated here that no being should be killed or
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