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Gachchhachar-Prakirnak-7/1- Gatha-26
[26] Meaning- Only those Acharya can be compared to eyes (guides) for the worldly creatures, who show them real spiritual path preached by the Lords (jinas).
[27] Meaning- The Acharya who spread the Jinas faith properly are as venerable as the Tirthankaras themselves. On the contrary the Acharya that circumvent the path preached by Lords Jinas are not noble but ignoble.
[28] Meaning- These three types of Acharya destroy the faith - [1] Those who are themselves corrupt, [2] Those who shelter and protect the corrupt members of th monastic group, [3] Those who follow the wrong path.
[29] Meaning- The disciple who serves the Acharya that treads the wrong path and destroys the right one. O' Gautam! Certainly draws his soul in the ocean of mundane existence.
[30] Meaning- Even one person that follows the wrong spiritual path drowns a large group of aspirants in the same way as a group of sea-farers following an incompetent captain drowns at sea.
[31] Meaning- O Gautam! An Acharya following the wrong spiritual path and destroying right one, certainly wanders world for an infinitely long duration of time.
[32] Meaning- One who states the pure monastic duties and insists on their observance also establishes himself in them. However one who does differently falls from even the householders' duties.
[33-34] Meaning- Even if you cannot observe the path as preached by Lords Jinas properly, at the very least state it as stated by them, for even the lax one who praises the correct path of primary and secondary virtues earns merit sheds the accumulated karma and easily attains enlightenment.
[35] Meaning- The aspirant practitioners who are well established in the right spiritual path ought to be looked after well and served with treatment and medicine etc when needed. One must serve them oneself and get them served by the others.
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[36] Meaning. There has been many a noble ones in the past, there is many a noble one in the present and there will be many a noble soul in the future who dedicates their entire lives for the welfare of the world at large. The creatures of the three worlds bow at the feet of such noble souls.
[37] Meaning- O Gautam! There has been many an Acharya in the past and there will be many the futures by remembering whose creeds and deeds one can atone for one's misdeeds.
[38] Meaning- As the servants and mounts (horses) become truant in the absence of proper control and care, so do the disciples also become self opinionated in the absence of counter-questioning, expiation and proper motivation. Therefore the fear of the master is always desirable.
[39] Meaning- Acharya that don't motivate their disciples for negligence, Sloth or
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