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The term "Dharmasvākhyātabhāvanā" used in this context is not found in other religious texts.
**Yogaśāstra, Fourth Light, Verse 102:** Dharma protects beings from falling into the hellish abyss. Dharma also enables one to attain the glory of the unparalleled omniscient.
**Explanation:** The remaining fruits of Dharma should be understood as incidental. In this regard, the meaning of the inner verses is presented: The ten types of Yati Dharma mentioned earlier were not seen (accepted) by the wrong view. And if anyone has ever said it, they did not say it by practicing it. The meaning of any truth is through the speech of each person. It is also in someone's mind, but if they implement it in practice, understand that they are a devotee of Jina Dharma. Those who are enslaved by the intellect in the Vedic scriptures and those who memorize their sutras do not know Dharma even in the slightest. How can there be Dharma in a Yajnika who performs various animal-killing sacrifices like Go-medha, Ashvamedha, etc., and who kills or causes animals to be killed? How can this be the Dharma of the Puranas and their creators, the Puranic, who speak of things that are unworthy of faith, false, and contradictory to each other? How can there be Dharma in the life of the Smarta, etc., who take away the property of others through wrong systems and who call only earth and water as cleanliness? How can this be called the poverty of a Brahmin who wants to take everything from a Yajamana who does not want to give, and who takes life for money? Where is the austerity of the Buddhists who clean their mouths day and night, but are devoid of the discrimination between edible and inedible? "Sleeping on a soft bed, drinking sweet juice in the morning, eating lunch, drinking cold water in the evening, and eating raisins and sugar at midnight. Thus, the Shakyas (Buddhists) have described a beautiful Dharma in eating and drinking as they please." There is not even a trace of the Dharma of forgiveness in the worldly Rishis who curse in a moment for a small offense. "Our Brahmin caste is the best; how can there be the Dharma of gentleness in Brahmins who are intoxicated with this kind of caste pride, who are ill-behaved, and who have this kind of mind, living in the four Ashramas? How can there be even a trace of simplicity in hypocrites who have the results of pride in their hearts and who outwardly wear the garb of renunciation? How can there be the Dharma of liberation (non-attachment) in the Kula-griha-Brahmin who is always entangled in family, wife, house, children, etc., and in attachment?
Thus, one should contemplate this Dharma-svākhyātabhāvanā of the omniscient Arihant Bhagwan, who is free from attachment, aversion, or delusion. False words come out due to attachment, aversion, or delusion-ignorance. Since these defects are absent in the non-attached, how can the Arihant be a false speaker? It is not possible for those who have a mind contaminated by attachment, aversion, etc., to speak the truth. They perform sacrifices, perform homa, etc., and by performing many acts of fulfilling desires, such as building wells, ponds, lakes, etc., they cause the death of animals and tell them about the pleasures of heaven. They want to satisfy their ancestors by feeding Brahmins, they perform rituals like ghee yoni, etc., and make them perform atonement for their sins. They justify the remarriage of women due to the five calamities. They say that a woman who does not have a son should have a Kshetraja offspring (born through Niyoga with another man). They say that impure women are purified by their menstruation. They earn a living by killing goats, etc., in sacrifices with a benevolent mind. They make people drink alcohol for seven generations in the Sautrāmaṇi sacrifice. They believe that touching a cow that eats dung is purifying. They say that bathing in water, etc., purifies sins. They worship trees like banyan, peepal, amla, etc. They believe that the offering of ghee, etc., in fire pleases the gods and goddesses. They believe that milking a cow on earth pacifies misfortune. They preach the same kind of vows and Dharma for women, as if they are inferior. They wear matted hair, pierce their ears, apply ashes on their bodies, wear loincloths, worship gods with ak, dhatura, bilva leaves, tulsi, etc. They deceive the Muni Devas and people by playing on their buttocks, dancing, singing, etc., repeatedly, making a sound like a musical instrument from their mouths, and speaking falsely. They repeatedly take and abandon the Pashupata vow, desiring slavery and servitude by breaking their vows. They kill lice in the use of medicines, etc., and they use the bones of humans.