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CHAPTER XV
NIRVANA
इत्य प्रभाव ऋषभोऽवतारशंकरस्य मे। सतांगतिर्दीनबन्धुर्नवमः कथितस्तवन ॥
ऋषभस्य चरितहि परमं पावनं महत् ।
स्वयं यशस्यमायुष्यं श्रोतव्य' च प्रयत्नतः ॥ [Tr.. Thus will there be the Risabha Avatāra (incarnation) to me, Sankara (Siva, allegorically Vairāgya, that is Renunciation); which will be the ninth incarnation that will take place like the Path for the good people and as a patron of the helpless! The life of Rişabha is exceedingly pure; one should hear the life of Rigabha which is the giver of heaven after death and the cause of increase of fame and the length of one's years. ]-The Siva Purāņa (Hindu), IV, 47-48.
" Because of her (wisdom) I shall have immortality, and leave behind an eternal memory to them that come after me."-II Esdras (Jewish Apocrypha), Chap. VIII.
The passage quoted above from the Jewish Apocrypha furnishes a complete answer to the question that has been recently raised, whether it is selfish for a man to seek his own salvation and to leave the others involved in suffering and misery?
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