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The Eighty-seventh Chapter
They fall down below, to the earth-gems, sugar-light, sand-light, mud-light, smoke-light, and great darkness, which are always filled with great darkness, foul-smelling, repulsive, ugly, and painful to touch. They are extremely terrible, like molten iron, and are filled with cries, screams, and fear. There, the hell-beings, bound by sin, due to evil deeds, always experience great intense suffering, like the state of many oceans. Knowing this, the wise, with hearts filled with aversion to the bonds of sin, delight in good conduct, uncorrupted by the rules of vows, and with natural integrity and radiance of virtues, some attain human existence, others, through various austerities, attain the abode of the gods. Fallen from there, they again attain human existence, abandoning their desire for dharma. Those who shine with such merit, freed from rebirth and death, wander in the midst of the vast wilderness of suffering, their hopes shattered.
Then, others, who are established in the dharma of the worthy, are deeply influenced by the words of the Lord of Lords, and following the path of liberation, are intensely devoted to conduct, truth, purity, right austerity, vision, knowledge, and conduct. They strive to destroy the eight types of karma, and thus, endowed with the highest excellence, become the supreme masters of the gods. There, they enjoy countless pleasures, like the ocean. Then, falling from there, they obtain the fruits of the remaining dharma, enjoy great pleasures, attain prosperity, and abandoning kingdoms and other worldly possessions, they embrace the Jain insignia, perform intense austerities, become holders of white meditation, attain omniscience, and when their lifespan is exhausted, free from all karma, they ascend to the highest part of the three worlds, become liberated, and attain the supreme, infinite, blissful, self-nature.
The Story of the Previous Birth
Then, Indrajeet and Meghavahana asked the Muni, the Lord of the Munis, about their previous birth. He replied, "In the city of Kaushambi, there were two brothers born into a poor family."