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dereliction once entertained, enters with its comrades and never leaves the host. Once again the perverted methods crept in during the tenure of 52nd Pontiff Ratna ekhara S ri and started increasing gradually.
Tap gaccha Pa val elucidates that the degeneration reached greater heights during the time of Hemavimala S ri, the 55" successor Pontiff of Mah v ra tradition and nanda Vimala Sri, the 56h Pontiff. Besides lax conduct, perversions and variations crept in the pure spiritual path and in the lives of ascetics.
Necessity is the mother of invention. An esteemed personality like Lok ha emerged to fulfil the then inevitable necessity – the necessity to bring the derailed Jina Order pandemic with sluggishness and heresy back on to the track of pure spiritual Path.
Had the religious reformers, who emerged from time to time prior to Lok ha, incorporated the most significant rule proclaiming that the followers of Lord Mah v ra, should follow only the scripture promulgated by Jina as authentic and that Niryuktis, Bh yas, V ttis and Cr is should never be given equal status and sanctity to that of scriptures, then the necessity to bend towards heresy taking the support of 'Pamc mg’ would not have never risen for the rama as and rama S. The very entry would have remained closed.
In Vikram 1508 Lok ha launched the great religious revolution. Lok ha himself and his followers and the Janamat s - monks and female monks who were inspired by religious revolution treaded on the holy path of spiritual purification (the opponents and others called them as L mk mat ) and started preaching the scripture-based pure spiritual path. Within a short time, the number of his followers increased remarkably. His fame spread far and wide.
Observing the popularity and the ever increasing number of his followers in different parts of the country, the other gacchas were afraid that the fame and popularity of L mk and his followers may prove fatal to them, uprooting their very existence. Taken over by this fear, eventually the 53rd Pontiff of Tap gaccha, nanda Vimala S ri also launched a -reformation from his side in Vikram 1582 and later in Vikram 1583
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