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## The Twenty-Third Hundredth Chapter
**413**
Those who are greedy for worldly pleasures and have attained the suffering of hell, what can the gods do for those who are subject to the results of their own actions? **40**
Since the karma done by oneself has to be experienced according to its nature, O God! You are not able to liberate us from suffering. **41**
O Sītendra! Protect us, tell us what we should do so that we may not attain hell again. You are merciful to us. **42**
Then the God said, "That which is excellent, eternal, blissful, supreme, a secret for the foolish, famous in the three worlds, the destroyer of karma, pure, holy, the giver of the ultimate truth, never attained before, or if attained, not protected by the careless, unknowable to the unworthy, causing fear in the long cycle of existence, such is the noble and rare Right Faith, the greatest welfare of the soul." **43-45**
If you desire your own welfare, then even in this state, attain Right Faith. This Right Faith is auspicious, granting enlightenment in due time. **46**
There is no other welfare greater than this, nor was there, nor will there be. In its presence, the great sages become Siddhas, are becoming Siddhas, and were Siddhas in the past. **47**
As the great Arhats, the Jinas, have described the nature of the soul and other entities, so it is. Thus, to have firm faith with devotion is Right Faith. **48**
Although Sītendra had caused those in hell to attain Right Faith through his words, he was still grieving for them, being the enjoyer of excellent pleasures. **49**
Their former beautiful bodies, full of radiance and loveliness, were burnt by karma, like a new garden by fire. **50**
Seeing this, the whole world was astonished. Where did their radiant beauty, full of noble and graceful playfulness, go? **51**
He said to them, "Look, because of that small pleasure in the realm of karma, you have become immersed in this ocean of suffering by doing evil deeds." **52**
Thus, when Sītendra spoke, those who had been afflicted in countless births attained the supreme Right Faith, which they had never attained before. **53**