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thin and light that one cannot see them, despite their existence.
Nevertheless, kashays have their effect within. These kashays
bring forth effect, which only the ascetic suffer and no one else
around him.
The kashays that one can see in the renunciants and
ascetics should not be there. However, because their kashays
can be seen on the outside, one can deduce that not only do
they not have conformity to mahavrat for sure, but they are non-
compliant even in their anuvrat! True anuvrat is where an
acharya (spiritual master) has such an aura of power that no one
will lie to him. But here his disciples lie to him and he tells lies
himself, so where is his anuvrat of speaking only the truth? The
mahavrats have gone to the vitarag lords, but today there is no
trace of anuvrats either! Vitarag Lords say, “The losses you
incur will be yours. We are not going to lose anything.” Vitarags
do not incur a loss, do they? The loss is to the one who does
not abide by the Lord’s instructions. Loss is to those who do not
do as the Lord tells them. Don’t people look like they just drank
castor oil? Where did all their happiness vanish? The Soul is
there, so should the bliss not be there too?
‘We’ are not criticizing anyone here. ‘We’ never criticize
anyone. ‘We’ are just explaining the facts. If someone understands
this from ‘us’ and tells ‘us’, “You are right, you are stating the
facts”, then his work will be achieved. That person will quickly
find the path to liberation. And if he says, “What you are saying
is wrong”, then his current wandering will continue. What is it to
‘us’? If you want to curse someone four times over and you can
afford to do so, then do it; ‘we’ have no objection. ‘We’ just
want to tell you the facts as they are: Yo