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I am the Soul
747 belonging to their own school of thought. Whether swetamber or digamber, Sthanakwasi or murtipujak or terapanthi, they all keep insisting that only those observances performed by our group are the ones propounded by the Prabhu. This is the only order of the Jina, there is none other. That is why we are the only ones in the right, rest are all wrong?.
Thus, every upstart sect that comes in these days insists that the true principles rest only with it. Do forgive me, Brothers! But even within one sect the followers have formed groups and insist that what they know is not known to anybody else. The way in which they perform their pujas and sing the praises is the right way, and the others do it wrong. What do we call those people who spread such misconceptions, where in the name of the Lord they pray to, they create rift among themselves, insist on their own way and harbour enmity towards others? Remember! They too are misguided. Whatever they may say, but their vyavahar is false and their niscaya too is false.
Truly in this age, we miss the sages. That is our biggest misfortune. Srimadji says the difference between the enlightened and the ignorant is just this -
TESHT ata Fritsig visa Tet...
अज्ञानीने मतभेद करतां वार लागती नथी । Vyavahar is not the insistence upon proving that one's own concept is the only true one, while getting involved with such differences. Vyavahar, the true good vyavahar is the purushartha - the tremendous effort that is made towards awakening that state in the jiva necessary for attaining the niscaya. For that purpose, in this very Shastra, Srimadji has earlier spoken about “pacification of the passions and so on. That state, when it appears in the jiva, is sadvyavahar.
Similarly, what is niscaya? The experience of the body is not the same as that of the atma. Niscaya is not merely a verbal
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