Tirthankar Mahavir and His Sarvodaya Tirth

Author(s): Hukamchand Bharilla, K C Lalwani
Publisher: Kundkund Kahan Digambar Jain Trust

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TIRTHANKARA MAHAVIRA AND HIS SARVODAYA TIRTHA
the clear indication is about Jina Gurus Acarya, Upadhyaya and monk. They can only be the nude monks clad in subjectivity and upholders of right knowledge, right faith and right conduct.
To attain right faith, it is very necessary to know the Guru along with the true gods and the canonical texts, the more so because the Guru is the most visible person who shows the way If perchance one accepts a wrong person as his Guru, then the clear possibility is that he enlongens his cycles of birth and death
Acarya Kundakunda has written at length on the Guru in his Asta Pāhuda Thus on the one hand, according to him, deviationists are they from the road to liberation who put on clothes, and in the same group, according to him, are the nudes whose delusion, attachment and greed are still fresh To quote:
je pancacelasattā granthaggāhıya jāyanāsīlā adhākammammi rayā te cattā mokkhamaggammi 72
Those who are addicted to five types of clothes, select some one from them, beg, indulge in sinful deeds (ādhākamma), accept food which is impure, they slip from the road to liberation.
Though the monks are nude, but nudity alone does not make a monk. In his words,
davvena sayala naggā ņārayatırıyā ya sayalasanghāyā parināmena aśuddhā na bhāvasavanattanam pattā naggo pāvai dukkham naggo samsāra sāyare bhantai naggo na lahai bohim jiņabhāvanavajjio suiram bhāveņa hoi naggo micchattāim ya dosa caiūnam pacchã davvena muni payadadı lingam jiņārāe73
From the standpoint of object, every living being is outwardly naked. The infernal beings and lower animals are all the while naked, without clothes. On certain occasions, even human beings become naked, but then their aptitude is impure, and so subjectively they do not become Sramanas
72 Astapāhuda (Mokşapāhuda), Gatha, 79 73 Ibid, (Bhavapāhuda), Gathā, 67, 68, 73