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Divine Life
According to Jainism, divine life exists. Good deeds take the jiva to attend divine life. Leading an ascestic life with affection results in divine life. Leading an ascestic life with pure mind results in divine life. Practicing penance without knowing its consequences results in divine life. Practising austerities without any aim results in divine life. Whenever the jiva is able to face the fury of karmas peacefully, it incarnates as a celestial being. There are three regions of celestial beings-residential (bhavanvasi) the peripatetic (vyantara) and the stellar Gjyotiska) gods. There too, it incessantly burns with the great fire of desire for seizures; while dying it weeps bitterly (for the loss of pleasures) and suffers pains. If it happens to be a celestial being of the heavenly (Vaimanka) class (there too) being bereft of right faith, it continues to suffer. Falling from there, it has to be born in an immobile organism where its fate is doomed for an incalculably long period.
