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**Chapter 55: The Scattering of the Rejection of the Eager**
**Verse 54**
So, those who undertake fasting without a proper occasion and without having performed the necessary rituals, their downfall is described here: Those who perform worship in the form of fasting without a proper occasion and without a proper time, and those whose souls have been purified by rituals after a long and abundant period of time (i.e., those who have been purified for a long time), and those who are not like this (i.e., those who have not been purified for a long time) - these men, at the time of death, at the time of death (i.e., the word "time" refers to the occasion). The feeling that arises from the karma accumulated in the past, from the completion of that karma, arises from the results of their own natural karma. They fall into falsehood and hell like the Nandiṣa, due to the cause of their actions. They go to hell like the Kuruḍa and the Utkuḍa.
**Verse 55**
Therefore, the Chandrakavedhya should be performed by a man with a proper reason and with a straight mind. The soul, free from all defects, should be made to walk on the path of liberation.
**Explanation**
If there is a fault in those who perform actions without a proper occasion and without having practiced them, then what should be done? The Guru gives the following advice: Therefore, the Chandrakavedhya, which is the piercing of the moon, should be performed by a man with a proper reason. Just as the Chandrakavedhya is performed with a proper reason for the attainment of a kingdom or other benefits, by a prince who has been given a boon by Indra, so also you should perform the Chandrakavedhya, like the Chandrakavedhya, with a proper reason for the attainment of heaven and liberation. Then how should it be performed? It is said: "The soul, free from all defects, should be made to walk on the path of liberation." Where? On the path of liberation, which is the path of knowledge, vision, conduct, and austerity. For it is by following this path that one can perform the Chandrakavedhya.