Tattvartha Sutra

SR No.: 034448
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Vijay K Jain
Publisher: Vikalp Printers
Publication Year: 2018
Total Pages: 500
Language: Hindi, Sanskrit, English
Classification: Book_Devnagari & Book_English
File Size: 5 MB

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Tattvärthasūtra
सम्यक्त्वं च ॥२१॥
[ सम्यक्त्वं च ] सम्यक्त्व भी देवायु के आस्रव का कारण है। अर्थात् जो सराग सम्यग्दर्शन है वह भी देवायु के आस्रव का कारण है।
Right belief (samyaktva) also causes the influx (āsrava) of life-karma (ayuh) leading to celestial-birth (deva).
The influx (asrava) of life-karma (ayuḥ) leading to celestial-birth (deva) is supplied from the previous sūtra. Though right belief (samyaktva) is mentioned in general as the cause of the influx of lifekarma (ayuḥ) leading to celestial-birth (deva), it means birth in the heavens (kalpa), commencing from the Saudharma kalpa. How? It is because right belief (samyaktva) is mentioned separately. Does the rule enunciated in the previous sūtra apply uniformly for birth in all classes of deva, without distinction? No. Restraint-with-attachment (saragasamyama) and restraint-cum-non-restraint (samyamāsamyama) lead to birth in the heavens (kalpa), commencing from the Saudharma kalpa, for, in the absence of right belief (samyaktva), these do not arise. Hence these two are included herein. The purport is that right belief (samyaktva), even without observance of vows, also causes the influx of life-karma leading to birth as a heavenly (vaimānika) deva.1
The causes of the influx of physique-making (nama) karmas have to be explained next. First, the influx of inauspicious (asubha) physiquemaking (nama) karmas is described.
1 - Hence, persons with right belief (samyaktva), except those whose bondage of life-karma has been accomplished prior to their attainment of right belief, will be reborn among the fourth class of deva - heavenly (vaimānika) - and not among the three lower classes, namely, the residential (bhavanavāsī), the peripatetic (vyantara) and the stellar (jyotiska) deva.
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