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Whoever does anything in this world, earns karma, and his journey in this terrible ocean of samsara never ends. ||138|| Knowing these faults arising from association, the wise, controlling themselves by themselves, attain dispassion. ||139|| Thus, being instructed by the words of the ultimate truth, the Brahmin Brahmaruchi, freed from delusion, attained the Shramanī initiation. ||140|| Being free from attachment, he, with great dispassion, happily wandered with his Guru, who was dear to him. ||141|| The Kurmi, with a pure mind, also realized that the cycle of birth and death of a being is due to attachment. Knowing this, she renounced sinful deeds and immersed herself in pure conduct. ||142|| Abandoning the association of the wrong path, she became devoted to the Jina and shone like a lioness in the forest, even though she was without a husband. ||143|| In the tenth month, the patient woman gave birth to a good son. Seeing the child, the Kurmi, who knew the workings of karma, thought. ||144|| That since the great sages have said that this association is the cause of misfortune, I will abandon this association, that is, the company of the son, and do what is good for the soul. ||145|| This child will also experience the good or bad fruits of the law of karma that he has earned in his previous births. ||146|| The deeds done by oneself protect one in the dense forest, the ocean, or in the cage of enemies, not others. ||147|| When the time comes, even a being who is in the womb of his mother, being subject to his own karma, is taken away by death. ||148|| Knowing this truth, the ascetic, with a detached mind, abandoned the child in the forest. Then, with great urgency, she sought refuge in the city of Anjaloka, with the patient Aryā Indumālini, the beautiful and virtuous one. ||149-150||