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SRI RAPASENYA SUTRA
छत्तेणं वा अप्पाणं आवरित्ता चिट्ठइ, णो अट्ठाई जाव
पुच्छइ । एएण वि ठाणेणं चित्ता ! जीवे णो लभइ केवलिपण्णत्तं धम्मं सवणयाए
JATTHA VI YA NAM SAMAṆEŅA VĀ MĀHAṆEŅA VĀ SADDHIM ABHISAMĀGACCHAI TATTHA VI NAM HATTHEŅA VĀ VATTHEŅA VĀ CHATTEŅAM VĀ APPĀŅAM ĀVARITTĀ CITTHAI, NO AṬṬHĀIM JĀVA PUCCHAI EENAM VI THANEṆAM CITTĀ| JĪVE NO LABHAI KEVALIPANNATTAM DHAMMAM SAVAṆAYĀE|
There after Kesikumar shramana told Chitta sarathi: 'O Chitta! Living beings are deprived of listening to spiritual discourse propagated by the omniscient because of four reasons. They are as under:
1. Those human beings who do not pay visit to śramanās mahanās (ascetics), those who do not bow down to salute, honor or have faith in them as their spiritual welfare guide or do not devote themselves in service, aspirants who do not express their curiosity by asking questions on spiritual subjects or seek remedies for attaining ultimate goal of salvation, ask reasons for karmic bondages, aversion, real form of substance and its definition,O Chitta those people do not benefit by listening to spiritual discourse propagated by omniscient's, and that is why they remains deprived of spiritual sermons.
2. Those human beings, who do not pay visit to śramanās mahanās in their place of stay, do not bow down before them with salutation or ask
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