________________
THE PENANCES
57 8-MŪLA So long as chheda is still available as a penance and mūla has not been merited by the transgressor, chheda should be giren. Mala signifies complete deprivation of seniority and amounts to re-ordination. He who is given this form of penance will not rank as senior to a saint who is ordained just at that moment. For such faults as are beyond the curative efficacy of the chheda, that is to say, which are too grare to be cured by it and yet are not strong enough to merit parthāra (expulsion), the proper penance is mūla If the mahā-vratas (the main vows of asceticism) have been violated completely the proper penance is mūla (to establish the delinquent once more in the roles) It should be sought from the same achāi ya who originally ordained the transgressor."
The mula is indicated, as the proper penance, in the following cases –
For the loss of faith, conduct and the principal vous, and for the non-observance of the six necessary daily duties, and for ordaining a pregnant woman or an impotent person into sainthood ?
For propounding doctrines which are opposed to the Teaching of the Scripture :
? Ch 112 * $ 237. - $. 238
