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SECTION THIRD Observance of the merit: washing away sin The merit gets earned by the mental-vocal-bodily piety, performance of auspicious deeds and having the sentiment of loka-kalyana (happiness to all). The sin results by anger, pride, deceit and greed.
It is different that the sea is the abode of the original pearls as the material cause of the pearls is water; i.e., the water takes the shape of pearl,
still,
on thinking it becomes known that the earth has a prominent role in their formation. It is the shell that shapes the water into a pearl and, the shell is a part of the earth. Having trained the earth herself has sent the shell to the sea. Freeing the water from idiocy, making a pearl of it is the aim of the patient earth. This is the religion of kindness, this is the job of jiva. (Page 192-193)
In this third section the potter has picturised through the evolution story of the soil the salutary achievement born of the performance of meritorious
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