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## Third Chapter
The Digambara, he himself went to that direction.
After hearing this meaning from the Shraman Bhagwan Mahavira, King Shrenik, after contemplating and being pleased, circumambulated Shraman Bhagwan Mahavira thrice, paid obeisance and offered salutations. After paying obeisance and offering salutations, he went to where the blessed Digambara was. Arriving there, he circumambulated the blessed Digambara, paid obeisance and offered salutations. After paying obeisance and offering salutations, he began to speak,
"O Devānupriya! You are blessed, you are virtuous, you are fulfilled, you are of good deeds, O Devānupriya! You have made human birth and human life successful."
Saying this, he paid obeisance and offered salutations to the blessed Digambara. After paying obeisance and offering salutations, he went back to where Shraman Bhagwan Mahavira was. Reaching there, he paid obeisance and offered salutations to Shraman Bhagwan Mahavira and then went in the direction from which he had come.
**Discussion:** The meaning of this Sutra is clear from the original text itself. However, it is necessary to say that one should describe the qualities of a person without hesitation and encourage the virtuous person with gratitude, as Shraman Bhagwan Mahavira did. He described the extremely intense penance of the blessed Digambara truthfully and praised him.
From all this description, we learn another lesson, that once the attachment to the world is abandoned, one should definitely purify oneself through right penance. Because penance is the only main way to destroy karma. This is the fruit of renouncing worldly pleasures. A person who becomes a Sadhu but remains trapped in attachment should not expect any success from that renunciation. By doing so, he becomes nowhere and both his this world and the next world are ruined. The blessed Digambara has presented an ideal example before us. When he once renounced all the pleasures of a householder and embraced the life of a Sadhu, he performed the most excellent penance to make it successful and showed the monks through his duty how self-purification happens through penance and how the soul is adorned through that penance.
The third lesson we learn from this is that when praising a person, one should describe only the qualities that are actually present in him. This means that it is appropriate to praise by keeping in mind only the qualities that are present in that person, not by attributing other non-existent qualities. Because such praise sometimes becomes ridiculous. Therefore, one should not falsely praise someone and make them feel superior. Excessive praise can lead to self-deception in the person being praised, and can hinder his progress. These are the three lessons we learn from this Sutra.
The blessed Muni truly proved to be a true name. Who else can be more blessed than the one whom the Tirthankara Dev himself praises profusely from his lotus mouth?