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અધ્યાત્મતત્વાલક. Notes :-When ascetics have renounced and vowed to practise rigidly non-injury, truth, chastity, abstention from stealing, and receiving gifts, there is no reason why they should fall into evil practice of greed, anger, pride, deceit, &c.. If they do so they commit sin and are entrapped into fresh bonds of Karma. Even an iota of this passion will prevent them from crossing this phenomenal world, because it impedes the course of their right path to discrimination. When wise sages have allowed exception of omission and commission, there remains nothing for them to indulge in such evil destructive policy. On the contrary they deceive themselves by resorting to such crane-methods. Consequently one seeking admission into the path of Yoga should root out this evil passion in order to make a progressive advance in the practice of Yoga. All these remarks similarly hold good in the case of house-holders.
In the city of Kusumapura there were two ascetics : one rigid in the observance of rites and ceremonials used to stay on the ground-floor of a building belonging to a rich Jain-merchant ; the other ascetic was rather lax in the performance of daily rites and ceremonials, but his heart was highly elevated as to appreciate merits in others. The ascetic who lived down-stairs was full of deceit and delighted in slandering the other, who on the contrary always took delight in honouring the former with due appreciation of his merit and remained indifferent to his demerits. The former, who was accustomed to deceit, slander, back-biting, duplicity though
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