Sarvadarshanasangraha 3.69

3.69

paropadeśanirapekṣam ātmasvarūpaṃ nisargaḥ/ vyākhyānādirūpaparopadeśajanitaṃ jñānam adhigamaḥ/

(a.) When the meaning of the predicaments, the soul, &c., has been declared by an Arhat in exact accordance with their reality, absolute faith in the teaching, i.e., the entire absence of any contrary idea, is "right intuition." And to this effect runs the Tattvārtha-sūtra, "Faith in the predicaments[16] is right 'intuition.'" Or, as another definition gives it, "Acquiescence in the predicaments declared by a Jina is called 'right faith;' it is produced either by natural character or by the guru's instruction." "Natural character" means the soul's own nature, independent of another's teaching; "instruction" is the knowledge produced by the teaching of another in the form of explanation, &c.