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Significance of Śrutajñāna
5. Śrutajñāna is the only knowledge which has a similarity with kevalajñāna and which can lead to the emancipation from all sorrows and the manifestation of kevalajñāna.
6. If śrutajñāna is accepted as verbal or scriptural knowledge, it is not possible in one-sensed to foursensed living beings and in some of the five-sensed beings also. Hence, there must be a different nature of śrutajñāna. Jinabhadragani has suggested that bhāva śrutajñāna is found in the one sensed to four sensed living beings which can occur directly without dravyaśruta in those living beings.
7. Śrutajñāna is the knowledge which leads a person to decide distinction between the real needs and the futile wants in life. It enables a person in attaining detachment from the worldly allurements and motivates him to proceed towards the salvation from sorrows. It is a big power for spiritual development of a soul. When it is obscured or perverted, a soul cannot decide the right path.
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