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Istopadeśa - The Golden Discourse
2. sāsādanasamyagdysţi – downfall 3. samyagmithyādrsţi – mixed right and wrong belief 4. asamyatasamyagdrsţi – vowless right belief 5. samyatāsamyata – partial vows 6. pramattasamyata – imperfect vows 7. apramattasamyata – perfect vows 8. apūrvakaraṇa – new thought-activity
9. anivịttibādara-sāmparāya – advanced thought-activity 10. sūkşmasāmparāya – slightest delusion 11. upaśānta-kaşāya - subsided delusion 12. kşīņa-kaṣāya - destroyed delusion 13. sayogakevali – Omniscient with vibration 14. ayogakevalī - non-vibratory Omniscient
It is clear that real spiritual progress starts only after the acquisition of right faith. Right faith arises from innate disposition or by acquisition of knowledge. In both instances of right faith the internal cause is the same, namely the subsidence, destruction, or destruction-cum-subsidence of faith deluding karmas. Right faith is characterized by eight qualities: freedom from doubt (niḥsankita), freedom from worldly desire (niņkānkşita), freedom from revulsion (nirvicikitsā), freedom from superstitions (amūdhadrsti), charitable forbearance and concealment of defects in others (upagūhana), ensuring steadfastness of right faith and
o swerve from the path to liberation (sthitikaraņa), propagation of the true path (prabhāvanā), and joy and affection towards the right path and its followers (vātsalya).
The Three Jewels (ratnatraya) of right faith, knowledge, and
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