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**Essential Sutra**
**Arhats' Asatana:** To have doubts like, "Why do they use golden thrones, etc.?"
**Siddhas' Asatana:** To disregard them, saying, "There are no Siddhas. If there is no body, how can there be infinite happiness?"
**Acharya-Upadhyaya's Asatana:** To think, "These are children, of low lineage, with little intelligence. They preach to others but don't practice themselves." Similarly, one should understand the Upadhyaya's Asatana.
**Sadhus' Asatana:** To criticize them, saying, "Cowardly people, unable to support their families, renounce their homes and beg. They live off the earnings of householders."
**Sadhvis' Asatana:** To belittle them because they are women. To call them the root of conflict and strife, and to disregard them in such ways.
**Shravak-Shravika's Asatana:** Jainism is a very generous and vast religion. Here, not only are Arhats and other great souls revered, but also ordinary householders who practice the Deshaviriti Dharma. To disregard these Shravaks and Shravikas is also a sin. Every Acharya, Upadhyaya, and Sadhu must repent for any known or unknown disregard towards Shravaks and Shravikas during daily morning and evening Pratikraman. They must say, "Micchami Dukkadam." Jain Agamas compare Shravaks and Shravikas to "Ammapiyaro." Jainism emphasizes virtues. There, virtues are worshipped, not anyone considered superior or inferior based on attire, gender, etc.
**Devas-Devis' Asatana:** To think, "Devas are attached to worldly desires, unable to resist them, constantly engaged in them, and despite being powerful, they don't improve governance." Similarly, one should understand the Devis' Asatana.
**Asatana of This World and the Next:** This world and the next refer to: for humans, humans are this world, and hell, Tiryanch, and Devas are the next world. To misrepresent this world and the next, to not believe in rebirth, to not believe in the principle of the four paths of hell, etc., is the Asatana of this world and the next.