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Chapter II
2
Characteristics of a
Religious Bigot
बाह्यत्याग पण ज्ञान नहि, ते माने गुरु सत्य ।
37ean Fischerfi, à 1641 JT 944 117811 Bahyatyaga pana jnana nahi, te mane guru satya, Athava nija kula dharmana, te guruma ja mamatva. 24 Some bigots follow false teachers, Who outwardly renounced the world, Or their hereditary preachers, But soul-aimless, believe their word. 24
A religious bigot selects for his Guru either one who is traditionally his family Guru or one who has renounced the externals but not obtained the knowledge of the Self.
जे जिनदेहप्रमाण ने, समवसरणादि सिद्धि । वर्णन समजे जिननु, रोकी रहे निज बुद्धि ॥२५॥ Je jinadehapramana ne, samavasaranadi siddhi, Varnana samaje jinanu, roki rahe nija buddhi. 25 Some confine their own talent, In pompous godly congregation, Jin's pictorial form and height, Or superhuman revelation. 25
Besides a religious bigot mistakes the spiritual descriptions of the size etc. of the body of the Jina and also those of the gorgeous decorations of the assembly halls where the Jina held congregations for the real description of the Jina himself and his intelligence is so much engrossed in these externals that he neither knows the real nature of the Jina nor does he make a sincere effort to comprehend it.
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