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कसाय-जो
.61
Even if there be a small hole called hypocrisy, in the spiritual ship, obtained only by pre-eminent merits, useful for the purpose of crossing the ocean of the phenomenal world, then, the crossing over to the opposite bank is impossible.
Fraud is a danger to Dharma--the source of peace, as fire to the forest, quarrel to friendship, disease to body and frost to lotus.
63.
Of what purpose is this hypocrisy to those who have vowed asceticism that they should practise it ? Indeed it does not get scope for its play in righteous practices, and in unrighteous ones it tends to nourish sins.
64
The great sages have laid down no rules absolutely mandatory and prohibitory. Hence one should not resort to deception; he should frankly tread a noble path.
