The text written in Sanskrit, begins with an invocation:
The first verse of Tattvārthsūtra, "" summarizes the Jaina path to liberation. It means that the Ratnatraya (three jewels: right view, right knowledge and right conduct) collectively constitutes the path to liberation or moksha.
Its ten chapters are:
#Faith and Knowledge
#The Category of the Living
#The Lower World and the Middle World
#The Celestial Beings
#The Category of the Non-Living
#Influx of Karma
#The Five Vows
#Bondage of Karma
#Stoppage and Shedding of Karma
#Liberation
The first chapter deals with the process of cognition and details about different types of knowledge. The next three chapters deal with the Jīva (soul), lower worlds, naraka, and celestial abodes, devas. The fifth chapter discusses the Non-soul (ajīva). The next three chapters deal with the karmas and their manifestations and the influx, asrava, good and bad karma, shubha-ashubha karma and the bondage of the karmas. The ninth chapter describes the blocking, samvara and shedding of the karmas, nirjara. The final chapter discusses moksha or the liberation of the soul.