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XXX : SĀRĀVALI PRAKĪRNAKA charity offered at the satrunjaya hill, the author says that a noble charity given in this birth results in a noble human rebirth, a medium charity results in a mediocre rebirth and a poor charity offered in this birth results in a poor human rebirth. (verses 100102)
Stating the fruit of knowledge and compassion towards the living, it has been said in the text that a lay believer, who enjoys worldly pleasures, also gains a heavenly rebirth through the means of charity and austerity and also gains the noble fruit of liberation by gaining purity of volitional disposition through the practice of activities in accordance with the canonical texts. Further, it has been said that a person practising austerities, renunciation, vigilance and restraints definitely gains a heavenly rebirth and the monk who perfoms ten types of monastic duties gains an affliction free heavenly rebirth. (verses 103-107)
The author says that the gods in heaven clearly listen to the faith propounded by the Lords Jinendras and one who does not have faith on the words of the Lords cannot gain heavenly birth. The austerities observed, without faith, by the ignorant and the foolish, ones do not amount to penance but only to bodily torment. (verses 108–109)
Emphasizing the importance of knowledge, in the next few verses, it has been said that the knowledge that leads towards liberation is the only noble and right knowledge, every other kind of knowledge is false knowledge and it hinders the path of spiritual emancipation. (verses 110–112)
Deliberating upon the subject of pain through non-charity and pursuit of pleasure through charity, the author says that it is
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