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The preceptors, in the garb of piety, with their minds sullied with impurities, deceit and hypocracy, sometiines become the object of veneration amongst the people, by their disa courses on worldly objects apart from spiritual truth. Generally the inass of people is ignorant of true religious principles, so, naturally they would follow the sermons delivered by those false preceptors, who thereby mislead them from the right path, and thus, they are unable to elevate their souls and of those, whom they lead. The qualifications of a real preceptor are given in the next verse.
Verse 22. ये निस्पृहास्त्यक्तसमस्तरागास्तत्त्वैकनिष्ठा गलिताभिमानाः । . संतोषपोषकविलीनवाञ्छा
स्ते रञ्जयति स्वमनो न लोकम् ॥ જેઓ નિસ્પૃહ છે, સમસ્ત પ્રકારના રાગ જાહેણે છોડી દીધેલ છે, તેને વિષે એક નિષ્ઠાવાળા છે, જેઓનું અભિ
