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## The Third Chapter
As they are, so are their influence, happiness, and brilliance. They are also superior in terms of purity, senses, and the objects of knowledge. [168]
From the Sōdharma heaven upwards, the gods are increasingly superior in terms of their position, brilliance, influence, happiness, purity of the Leshyas, and the objects of their senses and knowledge. They are also increasingly inferior in terms of their speed, height of their bodies, pride, and attachments. [169]
The great, invaluable jewel of liberation is easily attainable through their influence. Having enjoyed the happiness of the gods, where all desires are fulfilled by mere thought, they fall from heaven and are born as the best of men, or Narayanas, in the realms of the Videhas, Bharatas, and Airavatas. [170-171]
Some are the lords of six continents, possessing nine treasures and fourteen jewels. Their final actions are capable of attaining the happiness of liberation. [172]
Some others live for two or three births and then attain liberation. Some are Balabhadra, and they go to heaven or liberation. Others are those who bind the karmic roots in their previous births, and they are Narayanas and Antinarayanas. [173]
Some others, having practiced the sixteen auspicious causes in their previous births, become the holders of fame, the Tirthankaras, and they rule over the three worlds. [174]
Those who have the firm root of Right Faith, who are established in the knowledge-body, who hold the body of conduct, who are adorned with the branches and sub-branches of the right path, and who serve the tree of the Jina's teachings, which bears the flowers of prosperity for humans and gods, will attain the great fruit of liberation in the future. [175-176]
Having attained the essence, the subtle taste of the supreme bliss, which is the form of liberation, the Siddhas, having attained liberation, remain in the realm of the Siddhas. [177]
Hearing this Dharma-teaching, the lotus of the three worlds, the embodiment of the three worlds, was filled with joy and shone brightly, having come into contact with the sun of the path of liberation. [178]
Those who were already filled with a noble love for Dharma, having heard the Dharma-teaching, were purified by the fire of the world's stories and shone with the brilliance of a collection of pure jewels. [179]
Just as a cloud of rain calms the remaining dust, so the Jain teachings, the support of the three worlds, calm the remaining dust of delusion. [180]