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JAINA PENANCE
a question and for confession He salutes and otherwise shows respect towards other saints, but they do not show him respect nor offer salutation.
Pāranchiha penance is giren to those saints who are endowed with great strength, with the higher type of bony formation, with faith, com. posure, renunciation, parity and other excellent virtues and tho bare also conquered' sleep They differ from the sarva-pui na only in so far as they are fully enlightened, giren to preaching and do not need to sleep Such a saint will not lose his spiritual purity even if he have to live atras from the sangha (community of saints).
He who is guilty of the grossest of sios such as disrespect to the Tirthamhara, deserres the pāranchila (complete espulsion). He should go and live in places where there are no co-religionists of his Really, pāranchiha is only intended for him who is endowed with the rery best and strongest type of bony-formation (the first, namely, baji aOrisavla nārācha)*, ho is of strong character. enlightened with the knowledge of the ten purias (departments of scriptural lore) and a preacher os Tell as the conqueror of the tendency to sleep Such a person will not be 'lost' altogether eren if he is turned out of the country and the sangha
* See the Practical Dharma
