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Niyamasara
तपश्चरण में लीन योगीश्वरें को निश्चय प्रायश्चित्त Austerity (tapa) is real expiation (prāyaścitta) -
किं बहुणा भणिएण दु वरतवचरणं महेसिणं सव्वं । पायच्छित्तं जाणह अणेयकम्माण खयहेऊ ॥११७॥
बहुत कहने से क्या (लाभ) ? अनेक कर्मों के क्षय का हेतु ऐसा जो महर्षियों का उत्तम तपश्चरण है, वह सब प्रायश्चित्त जान ।
नियमसार
Why to drag? All of the excellent austerity (tapa), the cause of destruction of many karmas, that the supreme ascetics (śramana, muni, sādhu) observe is to be known as expiation (prāyaścitta).
EXPLANATORY NOTE
Right conduct (samyakcāritra) from the empirical (vyavahāra) pointof-view is to observe conventional austerities (vyavahāra tapa, like fasting) and, from the real (niscaya) point-of-view, it is to observe internal austerities (niscaya tapa - getting established in the puresoul-substance ). ( see gāthā 55, p. 119,ante).
Supreme ascetics (śramana, muni, sādhu) observe excellent austerities (tapa), both external (bahiranga ) and internal (antaranga). Infallible cause of destruction of the material-karmas (dravyakarma) as well as the psychic - karmas (bhāvakarma), such austerities (tapa) are nothing but expiation (prāyaścitta).
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