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which are worldly or which amount to hypocrisy or arrogance.
Jains are very well known for their austerities, but some of them forget the scriptural prescription about austerities and therefore a brief statement of Jain doctrines regarding performance of austerities would be in order.
Jains classifies penaces into two heads namely, external and internal. It puts main emphasis on “Bhava” i.e. the motive and the intention with which the austerities are undertaken. External penances are known as “Bahya Tapascharya” white the internal ones are known as “Abhyantara Tapascharya". Acharya Hemchandra gives great weight to Abhyantara Tapascharya in his well known book “Yoga Shastra” by stating. “Bhyaat Shreshtam Abhyantaram Tapah” meaning, "Internal penances are better than external”. It is nedless to emphaseze that whatever is internal is the result of mental and emotional
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