Agam 30 Prakirnak 07 Gacchachar Sutra

Author(s): D S Baya
Publisher: Agam Ahimsa Samta Evam Prakrit Samsthan

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XLIV: GACCHĀCĀRA PRAKĪRNAKA
leaving their forest dwellings and started living in temples. This. practice resulted in comfort-loving classes of monks in the Digambara as well as the Svetāmbara traditions and it started following the comfortable life style of the Hindu Mathādhīsas. This, in tuin, gave rise to evils of the Caityavāsi monks in the Svetāmbara Jaina clergy and to that of the Bhattārakas in the Digambara tradition.
Opposition To Laxity In Monastic life -
The very first opposition to this evil of comfort-loving and lax life-style of the monks started in the Digambara tradition by Ācārya Kundakunda. This is visible in his works as follows: -
1. Ukkitthasīhacariyami bahupariyammo ya guruyabhāro ya Jo viharai sacchandam pāvami gacchadi hodi micchattami ||
(Sūtrapāhuda, verse 9) Meaning that even if an Acārya, who observes his monasticism steadfastly, undertakes severe penance and holds the charge of the head of the monastic order, becomes wilful, he is a sinner given to falsehood.
2. Je bāvīsaparīsaha sahanti sattīsaehimi sañjuttā| Te honti vandanīyā kammakkhayanijjarā sāhū ||
(Sūtrapāhuda, verse 12) Meaning that only those monks are worthy of veneration who bear the twenty-two monastic hardships, who are endowed with thirty-six virtues of the Acārya and who is constantly engaged in the process of destroying the accumulated karma.
3. Gihaganthamohamukkā
Pāvārambhavimukkā
bāvīsaparisahā jiyakasāyā | pavvajjā erisā bhaniyā ||
(Bodhapāhuda, verse 45)