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JALNA PELANCE
guidance for all emergences. Guidance may also be taken from the penances prescribed for similar breaches of the saintis etiquette” To be absolutely jnst one mill bare to notice all the rarious shades of sinful mentality those number is legion ? No one can be expected to emerge successfully from a quest for the right penance for erers shade and grade of the singer, under the circumstances It is therefore, Tery rery essential that the Leader should be a practical man, who does not delight in Deedless hairsplitting but tho is able to handle a situation in a judicious and practical manner, there and then.
The Leader-acharya is alone qualified to prescribe the proper penance. So one else in the sangha (community of saints) should usurp that function The achärya bimself should be a well-trained persos and one who is endowed with great wisdom and experience and the knowledge of the actual conditions of existence in the land He should have a well-controlled nature, and should be possessed of a capacity for the judicial function that he is required to exercise in regard to the transgressions by his disciples and followers. No one who is not so endomed is qualified to hear confessions or to apportion the penance.
Ch 158 ° Ch 163 $. 183
