Moksha Marg Prakashak

SR No.: 006760
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Todarmal Pandit
Publisher: Kundkund Kahan Digambar Jain Trust
Publication Year: 1992
Total Pages: 556
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 15 MB

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MOKSHA MARG PRAKASHAK
गुरुणो भट्टा जाया, सद्दे थुणि ऊण लिति दाणाई । दोण्णवि अमुणियसारा, दुसमिसमयम्मि बुटुंति ॥31॥
Meaning:- Due to bad times the preceptors (Gurus) have become minstrels. They accept gift and donation, etc. by praising the donors in the words of a minstrel. So, in this distressful era(DukhamaKal) both the donor and the recipient are to drown in the ocean of worldly transmigration. It is further stated there :
"सप्पे दिट्रे णासइ लोओ णहि कोवि किंपि अक्खेइ । जो चयइ कुगुरु सप्प हा मूढ़ा भणइ त दुटु ॥36॥"
Meaning: If after seeing a snake, somebody runs away from it, people do not say anything to him. But alas! Behold! To him who quits the company of snake-like false preceptors the ignorant ones call him wicked and speak ill of him.
"सप्पो इक्कं मरणं कुगुरु अणताइ देह मरणाई । तो वर सप्प गहियं मा कुगुरु सेवणं भई ॥37।।"
Meaning:Oh!by snake-bitedeath is caused only once, whereas, the false preceptor causes infinite deaths, is an instrumental cause of infinite times births and deaths. Therefore,O! Judicious person! it is better to keep company with a snake but never adore or keep company with a false preceptor.
Further, many more verses are quoted there for strengthening right belief, same may be studied from that book,
And in Sanghapatta it is said so :"क्षुत्क्षामः किल कोपि रंकशिशुकः प्रवृज्य चैत्ये क्वचित कृत्वा किंचनपक्षमक्षतकलिः प्राप्तस्तदाचार्यकम् । चित्र चैत्यगृहे गृहीयति निजे गच्छे कुटुम्बीयति । स्वं शक्रीयति बालिशीयति बुधान् विश्व वराकीयति ॥"
Meaning : See ! some poor man's boy weakened by starvation took the oath of a monk in some temple and without forsaking sins he got installed as Acharya by some group. He now lives in the temple as one lives in his own house, treats the monks of his congregation as members of his own family, thinks himself to be very great like
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