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The wealthy should give charity to the wealthy.
According to the third light of Yoga Shastra, verses 119 to 120, one should show devotion to them by giving them food, betel nut, clothes, ornaments, etc. If they face any calamity, one should save them by giving them their wealth. If their wealth is lost due to the rise of Antarayakarma, one should help them by providing them with employment or business. One should stabilize those who are falling in Dharma. If someone is negligent in Dharmacharan, one should remind them, stop them from going on the wrong path, inspire them, inspire them repeatedly, make them practice Dharma, and solve their doubts; repeat what they have read, discuss with them, engage them in Dharmakatha, etc. as appropriate, and if there is any special Dharma Anusthan or collective Dharma Kriya or collective Dharma Aradhana, one should take them along to every place, build a dispensary, etc.
7. Shravika Kshetra - The seventh Dharma Kshetra is the Shravika. One should also invest their wealth for the progress or excellence of the Shravika class, like the Shravak. One should not consider the Shravika to be any less or more than the Shravak. A woman, whether a widow or a widow, who is endowed with knowledge, vision, character, virtue, and contentment, who has affection for the Jain religion, should be considered a co-religionist sister, mother, or daughter. Here it is doubted that 'how can women follow virtue? And how can they be endowed with the three jewels? Because in worldly and transcendental behavior, and from experience, women are known as sinners. In reality, women are poisonous creepers born without land, lightning born without clouds, nameless diseases, untimely death, lionesses without caves, and direct demons. They are liars, courageous, and destroyers of brotherly love, and the cause of suffering. They are the main cause of lack of wisdom, so they should be avoided from afar. Then how is it appropriate to give them charity, honor them, and show affection towards them? In answer to this, it is said that 'it is not entirely true that women have more faults. This can also happen in men. There are also many men who are cruel, atheists, ungrateful, traitors, deceivers of masters, and deceivers of gods and gurus; seeing them, it is not appropriate to disrespect the great men. Similarly, it is not appropriate to defame the entire female gender by seeing such women. There are many women who are very sinful, and there are many women who are very virtuous. The mother of the Tirthankara is a woman; yet, due to her virtues and dignity, even Indra praises her, and the Munis also praise her. It is also said in the world that 'the young woman who carries a noble womb, attains the position of a guru in the three worlds.' For this reason, learned people have sung the praises of the mother's lineage without exaggeration. Many women, by the influence of their virtue, make fire as cool as water, snakes as ropes, rivers as land, and poison as nectar. The fourth limb of the Chaturvarna Chaturvidh Sangh is said to be the Grihastha Shravikas. The Tirthankara himself has praised the virtues of Shravikas like Sulasa, etc. The Indras have also repeatedly spoken of their characters in the Devalok with great respect, and even the powerful Mithyadrishti Devas have tried to distract them from Samyaktva, etc. Yet they did not waver. It is heard in the scriptures that some of them will attain liberation in the same birth, some will attain liberation after two or three births. Therefore, one should have affection towards them like a mother, like a sister, or like one's own daughter. This is the right behavior.
At the end of the fifth are, there will be a Sadhu, a Sadhvi, a Shravak, and a Shravika. They will be Duppasahasuri, Yakshini Sadhvi, Nagil Shravak, and Satyshri Shravika respectively. Therefore, why should that Shravika be defamed by calling her a sinful woman? For this reason, it is not appropriate to avoid the Shravika (Grihastha Sannaari) from afar, but one should have affection towards her. What more can be said? One is not called a Mahashravak just by investing wealth in the seven fields; but the one who spends wealth with compassion for the poor, the blind, the deaf, the lame, the sick, the poor, the suffering, etc.; not with devotion; he is the Mahashravak. It is said to give charity appropriately with devotion in the seven fields. For the extremely poor and suffering, one should invest their wealth only out of compassion, without considering the eligible and ineligible, and the conceivable and inconceivable.
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