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## The Padma Purana:
**Verse 217:** Those who are filled with doubt, desire, and uncertainty, whose souls are distant from the praise of others, and who are devoid of praise for other doctrines, are the ones who hold the primary position among householders.
**Verse 218:** Those who are adorned with fine garments, exude a pleasant fragrance, have a pleasing appearance, are praised by the women of the city, and walk while looking at the earth, having abandoned all vices, are filled with good intentions, and are eager to perform good deeds, are those who, while going to pay homage to the Jina, attain infinite merit.
**Verse 219-220:** Those who consider the property of others as insignificant as grass, other men as equal to themselves, and other women as equal to their mothers, are blessed.
**Verse 221:** "When will I take initiation and wander the earth? When will I destroy my karmas and attain the abode of the Siddhas?" The person with a pure mind who contemplates this every day, finds that his karmas, as if afraid, do not associate with him.
**Verse 222-223:** Some householders attain liberation in seven or eight births, while some others, with a pure heart, achieve liberation in two or three births by performing intense austerities.
**Verse 224:** The average noble beings quickly attain great bliss, that is, liberation. However, those who are incapable but know the path, attain great bliss after some rest.
**Verse 225:** A person who does not know the path and wanders a hundred yojanas a day, keeps wandering and does not reach the desired place even after a long time.
**Verse 226:** Those whose faith is false, even if they perform severe austerities, do not attain the state free from birth and death.
**Verse 227:** Those who are corrupted by the three jewels (right faith, right knowledge, right conduct), wander in the forest of the world, covered in the darkness of delusion and filled with snakes of passions.
**Verse 229:** How can one cross the ocean of existence if one has no virtue, no right faith, and no noble renunciation?
**Verse 230:** In the flow of the Vindhya mountains, where elephants as tall as mountains are swept away, the poor rabbits are undoubtedly swept away.
**Verse 231:** Where even those who preach the wrong path are swept away by the current of birth, old age, and death, what can be said of their devotees?