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CANDRAVEDHYAKA PRAKĪRŅAKA : 29
67.
Thus, I have briefly narrated the characteristics of rightconduct or the ethical code. Now listen to the characteristics of the right knowledge attentively.
RIGHTEOUSNESS OF KNOWLEDGE :
THE FIFTH DOOR
68.
Blessed are those people, who are unable to comprehend the vast knowledge preached by the Lord Jinendra, but who still practice whatever little they know.
69.
Gods, demons, men, vultures, serpents, celestial minstrels etc., everything about the living beings of the upper, lower and the middle worlds can be known through the canonical knowledge.
70.
(Likewise) everything about the animate and the inanimate beings, the piety and the sin, the influx and stoppage (of karmic particles in the soul-field), the bondage and liberation as well as the shedding (of karmic bonds) can be known through the right knowledge.
71.
Both, to forsake vices and to practice virtues, are the means to practicing the religion. Actually, the vices and the virtues can be known through knowledge thus, knowledge is the basis of liberation.
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