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## The Pabhapurana:
**238.** The foolish soul, clinging to the path of Dharma, commits sins like entering fire or water, and thus falls into misery, not understanding his own good.
**239.** The one who is attached to fierce and sorrowful meditation, who is not victorious over desire, who performs evil deeds, and whose actions are contrary to the right path, will experience a condemned fate.
**240.** Even if one with a false view gives charity to the virtuous and the wicked, guided by the Dharma, he binds himself to the karma that brings great prosperity.
**241.** Even though such a being enjoys the fruits of his Dharma in heaven, it is not even a fraction of the reward that comes with attaining Right Faith.
**242.** Those who possess the exalted Right Faith and are devoted to good conduct are praised in this world and become prominent in the heavenly realms after death.
**243.** Even with great effort, the one with a false view, a Kuliṅga, becomes a servant of the gods and receives only a meager reward.
**244.** The one with Right Faith, having enjoyed the pleasures of being a human and a god in seven or eight lifetimes, attains liberation by embracing the life of a monk.
**245.** The one who is deluded by worldly objects does not desire to follow the path shown by the liberated, the all-knowing.
**246.** Bound by the strong chains of desire, deeply engrossed in delusion, they are brought into the house of thirst, carrying the chains of sin.
**247.** Various beings, clinging to the pleasures and pains of taste and touch, suffer greatly, having abandoned their refuge.
**248.** "He fears death, but does not attain liberation. He constantly desires happiness, but does not achieve it."
**249.** Thus, controlled by futile fear and desire, this being, devoid of any means, only experiences suffering.
**250.** Always consumed by desire, he seeks to enjoy pleasures, but does not perform any Dharma, just like a mosquito does not care for gold.