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## First Dasha (with Hindi Commentary)
**Commentary:** This sutra describes that a person who is a pishun (one who backbites) can never attain samadhi. This is because a backbiter destroys their own virtues and covers up the virtues of others. Since their inner self is not pure, a backbiter cannot attain samadhi. Additionally, all other faults of backbiting are well-known in the world, therefore one should not backbite.
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The "prishtha-masika" individual mentioned in the sutra is also considered shameful to be equal with noble people. "Prishtha-masika" (one who eats the flesh of the back) means (parangmukhasya parasya avarnavadkari) one who uses derogatory words for an absent person. It is also inappropriate to be associated with backbiting. Therefore, one who desires samadhi should completely abandon it and attain the state of samadhi.
In some books ("pitthi-mansie yavi bhavahi" - prishtha-masika chapi bhavati), there is a variation in the text. In this text, the words "cha" and "api" refer to all kinds of gossip and backbiting words, as they are all obstacles to samadhi. Therefore, it is appropriate for every seeker of samadhi to increase their samadhi by abandoning vices like backbiting.
There may be a doubt here: what is wrong with revealing the faults of a person who actually has them? The answer is that it is appropriate to teach such a person to abandon their faults with a sense of goodwill, not to reveal their faults to the public with a sense of hatred and increase their hatred. Those who seek samadhi should also stay away from backbiting and other vices because their duty is to enter their own nature by observing silence and to preach the truth. Additionally, it is not their duty to backbite others or describe their faults.
The sutrakar has described this asamadhi because it easily leads to self-condemnation and restraint-condemnation, which results in suffering in both worlds.
Therefore, one should abandon backbiting and only observe their own faults (and try to abandon them). By revealing their own faults to the public, the soul can attain samadhi. This is because by doing so, the soul's kshaya, etc., faults will be pacified.