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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CHAPTER-VI
dren and treats other householders as paupers. So, this is all a great wonder.
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Further, there is a poetical composition "fa , etc., its meaning is as follows. The householders with whom he (the so-called monk) has relation neither by birth nor by being nourished, nor has he any business relation and also has not to pay anything, treats them all like bullocks and forcibly takes gifts, donation, etc., none is there to administer justice.
Thus, there are many verses supporting the right faith and the same should be known from that book.
Here someone says- "These are the sermons quoted from Shwetambera's scriptures, why did you quote them as evidence?
Answer: For example, if something which is forbidden by a degraded person then the same is naturally forbidden for a high status person. Similarly, something which is forbidden even by those people for whom appendages of cloths, etc. are allowed then in Digamber religion such contrary practices are naturally forbidden.
Moreover, in Digamber Shastras (scriptures) also there are several verses supporting right faith. There in Shat-Pahuda composed by shri Kund-Kund Acharya, it is said so:
"दंसणमूलो धम्मो उवइट्ठो जिणवरेहिं सिस्साणं ।
तं सोऊण सकण्णे, दंसणहीणो ण वदिव्वो ॥ 21 ॥ ( दर्शनपाहुड़ )
Meaning: Jinendra Deva's exhortation to disciples is that the root cause of religion is right belief. Therefore, let the disciples of Jinendra Deva possessing ears be aware that the man without right belief is not adorable.
How can a false preceptor be instrumental in invoking right belief in a person who believes in that false preceptor? Without right belief no other aspect of religion is possible. How could one be adorable without religion?
Further, it is mentioned:
"जे दंसणेसु भट्ठा, णाणे भट्ठा चरित्त भट्ठा य ।
एदे भट्ठ वि भट्ठा, सेसं पि जणं विणासति ॥ 8 ॥ " ( दर्शनपाहुड़ )