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The introduction states that a seeker attains liberation in seven to eight births through inferior and medium *āradhanā*. Upon examining the original text, it is found that although the text mentions four *skandhas* of *āradhanā* - knowledge, perception, conduct and austerity, and its three types - excellent, medium and inferior in verse 137, but in verse 138, which indicates the fruit of *āradhanā*, it is said that the wise seeker who performs the excellent practice of these four *skandhas* is liberated in the same birth. Again, in verse 139, it is said that the wise seeker who performs the inferior practice of all four *āradhanā* *skandhas* attains liberation after seven to eight births by undergoing pure transmigration. Here, the text does not mention the fruit of medium *āradhanā* anywhere. We would like to know from the Muni Ji on what basis he has said that the one who performs medium *āradhanā* attains liberation after seven to eight births. If he has made this statement on the basis of any other text, then it is a different matter, otherwise there is no such indication in the present work to confirm his conclusion. If we have to find out the fruit of medium *āradhanā*, then we will have to find it out only between the fruit obtained from excellent *āradhanā* and inferior *āradhanā*, i.e. it will have to be assumed that a person can attain liberation in a minimum of two births and a maximum of six births through medium *āradhanā* based on the purity of the results.
In *Bhagawti Āradhanā* also, while stating the fruit of medium *āradhanā*, it has been said that the patient man attains liberation in the third birth by performing medium *āradhanā*. Again, the statement of *Bhagawti Āradhanā* regarding the fruit of excellent and inferior *āradhanā* is similar to the great rejection.
The text concludes by saying that the patient man also attains death and the cowardly man also, but it is only the one who attains death with patience that dies meaningfully. Because death in meditation is the best death. The last verse says that the restrained seeker who attains death by following this rejection properly will either be a celestial being or a *siddh* after death.
1. Jain Āgama Literature Contemplation and Interpretation, pp. 390-391. 2. *Bhagawti Āradhanā*, verse 2155. 3. *Bhagawti Āradhanā*, verse 2154, 2156.