Gadhada Last Section Vach. 12 Vachanamrut Rahasyarth Pradeepika Tika

A person who wishes to attain salvation must not have any manner of pride, such as, ‘I have been born into a high caste’; ‘I am rich’; ‘I am handsome’; or ‘I am a scholar’. Such kinds of pride must not exist in the mind. Instead, one should remain the servant of servants before even the most humble of disciples. A person who has malice for God or a disciple of God may be recognised as being a disciple, but actually, he should be known to be like a rabid dog. Anyone who touches the saliva of a rabid dog catches the disease. Similarly, both someone who has affection for a person who has malice for God or His disciples, and someone who listens to such a person’s words, becomes equivalent to an averse person. If someone has contracted a fatal disease he will never be cured by any medicine. Similarly, demonic inclinations will never cease to exist in the heart of someone who has malice for God or His disciples. A person may have killed innumerable Brahmins, massacred an infinite number of children, murdered numerous women, slaughtered countless cows and associated many times with the wife of his teacher, but still, at some time he can be relieved of his sins; penance for such sins has been stipulated in the scriptures. However, the manner of performing penance in order to become free from the sin of having malice towards God or His disciples has not been prescribed in any scripture.