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MAHĀPRATYĀKHYĀNA PRAKĪRNAKA : 9
18.
CONDEMNING THE LACK OF RESTRAINT AND
RENOUNCING FALSE-BELIEF I condemn and despise lack of restraint, ignorance, falsebelief and attachment towards all living and non-living objects.
19.
I know all types of lack of restraint, unreliability and falsehood. Therefore, I hereby renounce all forms of attachment and beg forgiveness from all.
20.
EXPIATION FOR UNKNOWN MISDEEDS The omniscient Jinas know about all the misdeeds committed by me anywhere and anytime. Therefore, I present myself for confessing and expiating for even such misdeeds that are unknown to me.
21.
PERSUASION FOR RENOUNCING DECEIT Deceit - manifest or unmanifest – is fit to be renounced. By condemnation and despising, it does not manifest itself again.
22.
THE CONFESSOR'S ELIGIBITY FOR FINAL
DELIVERANCE As a child guilelessly says everything about its good and bad deeds, so must an aspirant discard pride and confess and expiate for all his flaws guilelessly.
23.
It is only those with simplicity of mind that attain spiritual purity. The faith rests only with them that are of pure inner 'Self' and only such (whose inner-selves bear the faith) attain the supreme accomplishment of nirvāna, just as the fire irrigated by clarified butter attains it supreme state.
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