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XLII : MAHAPRATYĀKHYĀNA-PRAKĪRṆAKA
about the higher practice and the lower practice. By doing that we arrive at the conclusion that an aspirant that practices monasticism at the medium level liberates in a minimum of two rebirths and a maximum of six.
In the Bhagavatī–ārādhanā, too, it has been said about the result of the medium practice that a patient aspirant that undertakes such a practice liberates in the third rebirth.35 Again, the version available in the Bhagavati-ārādhanā about the results of the of monastic practices carried out at the higher and the lower levels is similar to that available in the
Mahapratyakhyāna
Prakirnaka.36
The treatise has been concluded by saying that both die the patient and forbearing as well as the cowardly. However, the death of the one, who dies a death of equanimity, is successful and laudable. Because, Samādhimarana is the noble death. In the last verse, the author says that the restrained aspirant who abides by the contents of this Prakīrṇaka and dies a death of equanimity will either be a Vaimānika god in the next birth or he will attain the supreme state of spiritual perfection and become Siddha in the same birth. (142)
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Bhagavatī ārādhanā, verse 2155.
Ibid, verse 2154, 2156.
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