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Dasha Shruta Skandha Sutra
Sixth Dasha
'Chatushpad' is called desire. The gist is that a person who desires worldly things and beings like sons, friends, wealth, grain, and cows, and worships for their attainment is called a Tadarthopaasak.
3. Mohopaasak - One who worships young men and women to satisfy their lust, obeys each other blindly, and sacrifices their lives out of attachment if they don't get each other, are Mohopaasaks. 363 Hypocrites are Mohopaasaks. Such people cannot see the truth due to the rise of Mohaniya Karma, therefore they become engrossed in false vision and make it their principle. They consider the worship of this principle as everything. This is their heaven, this is their liberation (Moksha).
4. Bhavopaasak - One who worships a Shraman who is endowed with knowledge, vision, and character with right vision and auspicious quantities is called a Bhavopaasak. The worship of a Shraman is done only for his qualities, just as the worship of a cow is for milk. Bhavopaasak is also called Shramanopaasak and Shravak. One who listens to and speaks about Dharma is called a Shravak, like - "Shrunoti Shravayati Va Shravakah."
Here the question arises that if one who listens and speaks is called a Shravak, then are Ganadhar and other Sadhus also Shravaks, because they also listen to the words from the mouth of Shri Bhagwan and preach Dharma to their disciples and the public, or can the whole world be Shravaks because everyone in it always listens and speaks something. In reply, it is said that if the general compound meaning of the word 'Shravak' is taken, then it can be used for Ganadhar and other Sadhus like householders, but here this word is Yog-Ruddha which is used only for householders who listen to and speak Dharma. Just as the word 'Gau' - "Gachchati-iti Gau" from this etymology can be used for all moving creatures, but due to being Yog-Ruddha in a particular individual, it refers to that only.
The scriptures have propounded two types of Dharma - Anangaar and Grihastha. Among them, the word Shravak has been used only for Grihastha. A real Shravak is usually...