Right Faith, Knowledge, and Conduct
The three jewels (ratnatraya) are the path to liberation.
Liberation requires right faith (samyak darshana), right knowledge (samyak jnana), and right conduct (samyak charitra). These three work together - each is incomplete without the others.
Faith, knowledge, and conduct together lead to liberation.
The three jewels summarize the entire Jain path.
Three Jewels
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- What Jainism says about doubt
Now the tension. The path to liberation opens with samyak darshana, right faith, before right knowledge and right conduct. A tradition that qualifies every statement still demands an unqualified commitment at the entrance, and it does not resolve that neatly.