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unchastity, etc.; only know them to be sin internally. Thus, contradiction will arise in all religious practices.
In this way, no prominence is given to forsaking of indulgence in the great sin like Mithyatva (false belief) and prominence is given to the sin of injury to air beings by denying the practice of speaking with uncovered mouth, so this is clearly a non-sequential discourse. Moreover, the aspects of religion are many; out of them, they emphasise only compassion towards other beings, but in this also they do not have any prudentiality. The prominence is not given to the practice of filtering of water, cleaning of food grains, etc., noneating of impure things, non-indulgence in trading activities involving injury, etc. Negation of Mukha-Patti (A Clothpiece for
Covering Mouth) And they give importance to the acts of tieing of a clothpiece over the mouth, using less amount of water in ablution but the organisms are created due to the contact of the spittle with the dirty clothpiece tied over the mouth; they are unmindful of these acts and lay stress on avoiding the injury to air beings, a lot of air is exhaled through the nose but they do not bother about it. And according to their scripture, if care is to be taken while speaking only, then why do they always keep it over the mouth? While speaking they should take care of it. If they say. “We forget, then the question is that when even this much is not remembered how will then other aspects of religion (rituals) be followed? And they advocate use of less amount of water in ablution, etc. but the necessary ablution is done by the monks also; hence, the householders should also do the ablution as per their status. Observing the act of Samayiaka (meditation) etc. without doing ablution after sexual intercourse, etc., sin is caused due to disrespect, madness, etc. Thus, the practices they stress, too, are not strictly followed. And they observe many of the aspects of compassion correctly, forsake eating of vegetables, etc., consume less amount of water; so, we do not negate them.
Refutation of the Negation of Idolatry And they (a group of Shwetamberas) refute Pratima (installation of omniscient's idol), Chaityalaya (temple of Arhantadeva, Jina) and
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