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6. Upadhyaya Pada. To worship and bow to the benevolent Upadhyayas, who follow the path of right conduct most sincerely, who explain the meaning of the sutras to the Sangha with a sheer consideration of doing good to others, who can turn the most foolish of their disciples into wise and who are always devoted to study and meditation.
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7. Sadhu Pada. To serve and worsip devotedly and respectfully the Saints, Sadhus, Ascetics and Hermits, who are practising right conduct right knowledge and right belief, and who are thus on the way to salvation, who regularly observe the five Mahavratas (great vows), who refrain from eating in the night time, who possess all the twenty seven virtues of the sadhus, who always attempt to attain the seventy qualities of 'Karana Sattari' (the collection of the seventy terms of the Shastras such as Pinds-Visuddhi purity of food) etc. and Charana sattari (the seventy qualities of ascetic conduct) and who perform the duties of a saint most honestly.
8. Jnana Pada. To worship and serve whole heartedly the learned and the wise and to study the philosophy of Jaina scriptures with attention and sincere devotion.
9. Darshana-Pada. To bid good bye to wrong belief and to worship and take shelter under Samyaktva (Right belief) with all its 67 forms. Samyaktva which is nothing but a firm belief in the nine Tattvas ( Principles) Jiva and Ajiva etc., in Vitaraga God, in Preceptors, and in the religion approved by an authority. Only those Gods are to be worshipped who are devoid of all the 18 blemishes and material attachment, and the respectable preceptors are only those who rightly observe the 5 great vows and sincerely follow the rules laid down by a Jina or a Tirthankara. Similarly the ideal religion
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