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Jain Terms Preserved:
The Right to Speak at the Appropriate Time
Many types of misfortunes, sufferings, and pains are obtained. Here, the word 'you' used in the verse is conceptual. The ascetics (Śramaṇa) are of what kind, the author gives this direction, whose vision is contrary to right faith or true faith - they are called Mithyādṛṣṭi (those with false beliefs). The advocates of ignorance and fatalism are Mithyādṛṣṭi.
Those persons who remain far from all the detestable or renunciable dharmas (qualities) are called Ārya. Those who are not Ārya are called Anārya, i.e., those who, being covered by ignorance, remain engaged in inauspicious, unreal conduct. Those who were discussed earlier also fall into this category of Anārya among other philosophical schools. The scriptural author (Āgamakāra) indicates that those persons who are engrossed in other philosophical schools are covered by ignorance, they are such that doubt should not be raised about them, who are not worthy of doubt, in this way, in the best religious observances and activities, they remain doubtful, and what is worthy of doubt, they are endowed with traps, snares, etc. From the perspective of the ignorant person, those who are endowed with principles contrary to absolutism. In such places, they go without doubt, they are like deer lacking in discrimination, ignorant. They commit acts of violence, etc., the fruit of which is inauspicious.
The shadow of the exposition of the Dharma, that they doubt, the foolish ones. They do not doubt the violent acts, the unmanifest, the unwise.
Translation:
Those other philosophers - who believe in philosophical systems other than Jainism, who are devoid of knowledge, lacking in discrimination, and empty of scriptural knowledge - they remain doubtful about the true exposition of Dharma, the true principles. But they do not doubt the violent acts, being unmanifest and unwise.