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GACCHĀCĀRA PRAKIRNAKA : 11
29.
The disciple who serves the Acārya that treads the wrong path and destroys the right one, that disciple, O' Gautama! certainly drowns his soul in the ocean of mundane existence.
30.
Even one person that follows the wrong spiritual path drowns a large group of aspirants in the same way as a group of sea-farers following an incompetant captain drowns at sea.
31.
O’ Gautama ! an Ācārya following the wrong spiritual path and destroying the right one, certainly wanders the world for an infinitely long duration of time.
32.
One who states the pure monastic duties and insists on their observance also establishes himself in them. However, one who does differently falls from even the householders' duties.
33–34. Even if you cannot observe the path as preached by Lords
Jina properly, at the very least state it as stated by them, for even the lax one who praises the correct path of primary and secondary virtues earns merit, sheds the accumulated karma and easily attains enlightenment.
35.
The aspirant practitioners who are well established in the right spiritual path ought to be looked after well and served with treatment and medicine etc when needed. One must serve them oneself and get them served by the others.
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