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## Chapter 51: The Description of Durga's Birth
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**Harivamsa Purana**
**47.** The earth is filled with fire, wind, water, land, creepers, and trees, as well as with inanimate deities imagined in temples. The sky is filled with the sun, moon, stars, and planets, which are visible to human eyes. So, who in this world is not deluded?
**48.** This world is somehow real, somehow unreal, somehow one, somehow many, somehow eternal, somehow impermanent, somehow self-existent, somehow other-existent, somehow finite, somehow infinite, and diverse in its qualities, qualities, actions, and causes. Yet, due to their deep delusion, beings of this world are immersed in monism.
**49.** The principal Nayas, such as Nigama, Sangraha, and Vyavahara, which are established by all Nayas and proofs regarding the definite object, are false if they contradict each other, and appropriate if they look at each other.
**50.** The faith of a person who is devoted to the teachings of the Jina, free from the attraction of other deities, and deeply devoted to the principles of life, is the one that, without any effort, leads to liberation, happiness, and the attainment of right knowledge, good conduct, and all auspicious things.
**51.** This accumulation of vows, qualities, and conduct, as well as various intense austerities, becomes pure only when it is accompanied by the purity of vision. Therefore, let those who are eager to acquire the qualities of the Jina worship the pure vision, which destroys birth, old age, and death, and brings happiness.
**Thus ends the fifty-first chapter of the Harivamsa Purana, composed by Jinasena Acharya, which is part of the collection of the Arishta-nemi Purana, and describes the birth of Durga.**
**Notes:**
1. **Purusha-purussara:** This term refers to the principle of the soul, which is the essence of all beings.
2. **Muni-pati-shasana:** This refers to the teachings of the Jina, which are the ultimate guide to liberation.
3. **Siddhi-sukha-anvayi:** This refers to the happiness of liberation, which is attained through the practice of the Jina's teachings.
4. **Bhavaparam-aparamananta-yiaasu cha chenmana:** This refers to the desire for liberation, which is the ultimate goal of all beings.