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of pran. (b) The earth-bodied upto plantbodied beings are satva. (c) Plantbodied beings are bhoot. All the five sensed living beings are jeeva. To say that All the worldly beings and liberated souls or satva. To have a wrong notion about the said four classes of beings and to cause harm to them is disrespect to all pran, bhoot and the like.
16. Disrespect to time (Kal): Not to accept the descending and ascending timecycle or to believe that Kal is everything.
17. Disrespect towards shrut: Scriptural knowledge is called shrut. Not to have faith in scriptures, not to believe scriptures or the word of the omniscient is disrespect towards shrut.
18. Disrespect towards authors of shrut: The very source of scriptures is the Tirthankar. Gandhars express the word of omniscient in sutras. So Tirthankars and Gandhars are basically originators of scriptures Shrut kevali, the goddess looking after the domain of Tirthankar, Sixteen Vidya goddesses are also considered as Shrut-devatas.
19. Disrespect towards masters in scriptures (Shrut-Acharya). The master who teaches monks and nuns is called Vachanacharya. To find fault in his style of teaching, to call him as deficient in scriptural knowledge, not to pay due respect to him is called disrespect towards shrutacharya.
(20 to 33) There are fourteen faults that may occur in study of scriptures and they have already been mentioned from Jamva-idham to Sajhaiya na Sajhaya in the lesson relating is scriptural study.
The practitioner desirous of self-enlightment should avoid above-said 33 types of disrespect. In case as a result of any slackness, forgetfulness or ignorance any disrespect has been incurred, he should remove it through pratikraman of such types of disrespect.
चतुर्थ अध्ययन : प्रतिक्रमण
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