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These falsehoods have been explained as under:
1) Loka Muudhataa
"Aapagaasaagarasnaanamucchayah shikataashmanaam Giripaato'agnipaatashcha lokamuudham nigadyate" -Aachaarya Samantabhadra's Ratnakaranda shraavakaachaara', Verse 22 (Publisher: Muni Sangh Svaagata Samiti {sagar), Madhya Pradesh, year 1986)
Bathing in rivers or the ocean, making heaps of sand and stones, throwing oneself from a cliff, jumping into a fire are considered to be acts motivated by worldly falsehood.
All these acts of folly come under loka muudhataa. These acts have been committed in the name of religion, gods and goddesses, social custom and family tradition. These acts are fuelled by superstition and the lack of correct understanding of religion.
2) Deva Muudhataa
Worshiping gods and goddesses who are not free from attachment and aversion, in order to gain their benediction for worldy profits is known as deva muudhataa.
Many people in the world, full of delusion and false belief, worship false gods and prophets, who are themselves not free from attachment and aversion, in order to gain material munificence from them in the form of kingdoms, wealth, women, sons, ornaments, precious clothes and luxuries. Such people also carry out animal sacrifices in order to appease those deities.
Such deluded people fail to realise that those who are themselves wrapped in attachment and aversion cannot grant anything to others. Those who are themselves sinners cannot offer emancipation to others.
Only those who have samyaktva realise the folly of worshiping false gods and false prophets. They stay away from such worship.
3) Guru Muudhataa
One who has not freed himself from the three major obstructions to liberation - maayaa (artifice/ deceit), mithyaatva delusion/false belief} and nidaana {desire to attain material wealth through spiritual acts cannot be a true guru. One who is immersed in aarambha violence), parigraha {attachment to worldly objects, both sentient and insentient and indriya vishaya (sensuous pleasures cannot be a true guru. Considering such a person to be a true guru is known as guru muudhataa.
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