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CANDRAVEDHYAKA PRAKĪRṆAKA: 15
(However), here, the masters who preach the path to spiritual salvation, as told by the Jinavaras, have been said to be the real masters.
As many a lamp is lighted by one lamp and, at the same time, that lamp also remains lighted, so, like the lamps, the masters, also, are themselves illuminated and they illuminate (the path) for the others, too.
The masters who help us swim across the great ocean of worldliness and are luminous like the sun and the moon are blessed. We bow at their feet everyday.
By worshipping the masters the soul gains glory in this world, the holy heaven (in the next birth) and enlightenment about the ultimate reality.
Everyday even the gods residing in the heavens, knowing the masters through their clairvoyant perception (Avadhi jnana), and remembering them leave their seats and beds for paying obeisance to them.
Even the gods residing in the heavens, recalling the preaching of the Nirgrantha dharma, come to the middle-world (Madhya loka) for bowing to the masters.
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