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sion, etc. And all those Shastras wherein the purpose of cultivating attachment feeling by cherishing voluptuousness, merriment, etc., aversion feeling by fostering violent activities, wars etc. and the perverted belief by nourishing the faith in false elements has been advocated are not the Shastras but"weapons". Because attachment, aversion, etc. fallacious feelings on account of which the Jiva has suffered from miseries from eternity, the tendency of those instincts and feelings was already existing in him oven without imparting any training and if through these Shastras the same instincts and feelings are fostered, then what has been preached for the well being of Jiva on the contrary it may amount to destruction of the very nature of the soul. Therefore, reading of and listening to such Shastras is not desirable.
As has been stated about reading and listening, similarly, one should know about composition, learning, teaching, thinking, writing, etc., by inference.
Thus only those Shastras which promote growth of passionlessness either directly or traditionally are only worth studying.
Traits of a Discourser Now, the traits of a (true) discourser are being described :-(1) He must be firm in Jaina-faith; for, if he himself is a misbeliever, how can he make others true believer ? The listerners by themselves possess less intellect, how would he make them true believer through some logic? And the right belief only is the basis of all religion.(2) He should have developed the ability to deliver discourses on Shastras through the study of scriptures because without attaining such ability how can he be eligible for preachership? (3) Through right knowledge, he should be able to discriminate the gist of all sorts of empirical (Vyavahara) and real (Nishchaya) etc. forms of expositions; for, if this be not there then if there be some description with some different purpose, there he might draw some other meaning and become instrumental in wrong conduct. (4) He should be very fearful of going against the omniscient's commandment because if this be not so then bearing some purpose in mind he may preach against the Sutras'(Scripture) and create misery for Jivas. So is stated below :
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