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MAHAPRATYĀKHYĀNA PRAKĪRNAKA : 11
THE INNER STINGS
It has been said in the religious order of the Jinas that an aspirant who has shed the karmic dust cannot liberate if his inner self is rankled by the three stings (of deceit Māyā, false-belief Mithyatva and binding desire for future Nidāna). Only those who are without such inner stings and who have completely shed the karma-mire, liberate.
Even those who are heavily in the grip of such inner stings but confess their flaws in the presence of the guru are able to embrace equanimous death and are considered to be the true practitioners of the Jina faith.
Those who are even lightly gripped by the three inner stings but who fail to confess their flaws in the presence of the guru are not truly the practitioners of the Jina faith even though they may be very learned in the sacred scriptural knowledge.
27-28. Even the misemployed weapon, poison, ghosts and illoperated machine and angry snake do not harm a negligent aspirant as much as the residual inner stings of deceit, false-attitude and binding wish for the future during the practice of the voluntary peaceful death. These residual inner stings hinder enlightenment and the aspirant becomes an infinite wanderer in the world.
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Therefore, the true prideless aspirants dispel the inner stings of deceit, false-inclination and binding wish that are the roots of the creeper of rebirth.
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