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desiring for complete details, may refer to Acharāng Sutra, Dashvaikālik Brihatkalpa, Pancha Kalpachurni, Māhākalpa Sutra, Nishithabhashya and other Sutras.
Thus one can clealy see that true asecticism includes among many restraints, withdrawal from sensual desires and pleasures, abandonment of worldly occupations and possessions, unshakably staunch faith in the word of the passionless and a full devotion to study, self-culture, meditation and self realization. Such a rigid observance surely fructifies into final liberation full of transcendental bliss, unassailable by rebirth, old age, death, disease and other earthly impediments. One inspired with high notions of morality, spirituality. may turn out a successful ascetic and can work out his way for final liberation. The whole affair chiefly depends upon the attainment of the Inner Truth. Now a day we see many so called ascetics (Sadhus and Sanyasis) following a wrong way holding evil to be good and impurity to be purity etc. Some of them indulge in various kinds of vices which even the laymen ought to refrain from. They hope to attain to immortality and take a great pride in their purity of life and holiness and also inculcate the same principles to their ignorant followers, and hurt them down into the abyss of sins. They fail to achieve success in the attainment of their high and pious object because they lack the true and holy spirit and conduct. It would not be out of place to say something more about the rigid rules prescribed for the Jain Sadhus in the scriptures. A strict prohi
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