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SECTION III
तइओ उद्देसो
उवगरणपरिच्चायधुत-पदं
५६. एयं खु मुणी आयाणं सया सुअक्खायधम्मे विधूतकप्पे
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Uvagaranapariccayadhuta -padam
59. Eyam khu muņi āyaṇam saya suakkhayadhamme vidhūtakappe nijjhosaitā.
The Dhuta of the Abandonment of Clothes
59. A muni who rightly follows this well-propounded faith1
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1. The literal meaning of the term suakkhae (skt. suakhyātaḥ) is "well-propounded. Bhagavan Mahāvīra had propounded the religion of equanimity. It has the following characteristics:
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(1) It is nairyātrika - i, e. it is capable of leading to nirvāna (i. e. liberation).
(2) It is satya (i. e. true), for it adopts the relativist (or non-absolutist) approach.
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(3) It is samśuddha (i. e. pure), for it is devoid of attachment, aversion and delusion.
(4) It is pratyutpanna i.e. it is instantaneously capable of checking the influx of karma-particles and exhausting the effects of past actions.
That is why it is qualified as "su-akhyāta."
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