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## Dashami Dasha
**With Hindi Commentary**
**455**
**Original Meaning:** After this, many Nirgranthas and Nirgranthis, upon hearing this meaning from the Shraman Bhagwan Mahavira Swami and contemplating it in their hearts, worshipped Shraman Bhagwan Mahavira Swami and bowed to him. Then, after worshipping and bowing, they immediately criticized themselves and retreated from their sinful karma. They engaged in penance-like tapasya karma as appropriate.
**Commentary:** This sutra shows the success of Bhagwan's teachings. When Shraman Bhagwan Mahavira Swami revealed the nine types of nidana karma and their sinful results, many Nirgranthas and Nirgranthis, fearing worldly wandering and knowing the terrible results of those nidana karma, presented themselves before Shraman Bhagwan Mahavira Swami, worshipped him according to the proper procedure, and bowed to him with their heads lowered. After worshipping and bowing, they criticized their own nidana karma in front of him, retreated from it, and accepted appropriate tapasya karma from Shraman Bhagwan himself for its purification.
This statement clearly proves that if one commits any kind of fault, one should go to the Guru and criticize that fault, and one should definitely undertake penance to become pure from it. Just as one has to seek the refuge of a physician to cure a disease and one becomes healthy through his medicine, similarly, one should seek the refuge of the Guru to purify a fault and one should definitely consume the medicine of penance. Just as the soul, knowing the pleasures of health, constantly strives to attain it, similarly, the soul that experiences the pleasures of a pure soul engages in self-purification through criticism, etc. Many men consider it their virtue to hide their sins, but that is their mistake. In reality, not committing sin is the virtue of every individual. If, due to mistake or carelessness, one commits sinful karma, then it is one's virtue to purify it through criticism, etc.