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Ten Observances. 204. Practise continuously the 10 observances :
Forgiveness, humility, straight-forwardness, truth, contentment, restraint, austerities, charity, non-attachment, and sexual purity.
Twelve Thoughts. 205. Transitoriness, helplessness, transmigration, loneliness, separateness, impurity, inflow, stoppage and shedding of Karmas, Universe, rarity of, and the true nature of, the Right Path.
The 22 Sufferings. 206-208. Hunger, thirst, cold, heat, insect-bite, nudity, ennui, woman, walking, sitting, resting on hard earth, abuse, beating, begging, non-obtaining, disease, contact with thorns, dirt, respect and dis-respect, conceit of knowledge, lack of knowledge, slack belief.
209. Follow the three Jewels of Right Belief, Knowledge, and Conduct ceaselessly.
210. Adopt the order of saints as early as practicable.
211-214. The three Jewelled Path leads to liberation. If there is bondage of Karma, it is caused by passion.
215. Molecular bondage is due to soul's vibratory activity, and duration-bondage is caused by passion.
216. There can be no bondage, when there is Right BeliefKnowledge-Conduct.
217-220. It is vibratory activity and Passions which cause Bondage of Tirth ankara and Aharaka Karmas, in presence of the three Jewels.
221-222. The triple path leads to Liberation. The difference is in the Real and the Practical Aspect.
223-224. The self-absorbed soul is in the Highest State, pure and effulgent, eternally happy.
225. The essence of True Philosophy is obtained by adopting proper aspect of things.
226, The author's expression of his own humility, disclaiming all credit for the book, which consists of phrases. words, and alphabets, which are eternal.
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