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TARMA PHILOSOPHY
97 (1) If anything is inade specially for the teacher, such as an article of food, he will not accept it.
(4) While a thing may not have been specially prepared for the teacher (guru), still if that guru's guru thinks that he ought not to have some special thing, then if the layman offers that thing to the young guru, it ought not to be accepted. This much of obedience is prescribed by the Jain philosophy. He does not, however, obey everything implicitly, for instance, he would not obey if told to kill. The reason he will not accept food that has been specially prepared for him is that, by doing so he shares in the karma of producing the article. He always goes unexpectedly to the house.
4. He has entirely given up the sex passion. This is the fourth characteristic which the teacher must have in order to be able to tell us the truth.
5 He does not own any property, that is in the sense of ownership as understood in law. His clothing is given to him but he does not have them as 'owning' them. He only holds them as custodian; books, etc.
The guru may be a man or a woma 12.
If a person does not have all the above characteristics, the person who has obtained the Samyaktva.
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