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RIŞABHA DEVA the householder's path) regularly. At the end of his life he performed the sallekhanā with full severity of renunciation, and departed, absorbed in holy meditation and the contemplation of the Self!
The souls of the four animals had also descended from the second heaven, and were born as princes in the same country. They all led saintly lives, and in the end withdrew themselves from the world, to practise austerities.
8. The Achyutendra On the termination of the earthly life, Subidhi's soul appeared in the sixteenth heaven, the name of which is Achyuta. He became the lord (Indra) in this heaven, and enjoyed the distinction of being the Achyutendra (Achyuta + Indra). The sixteenth is the highest heaven; beyond it there are some super-heavens where ladies are not met with. The glory of the Achyutendra is indescribable in words. He is invested with the most wonderful of the riddhis (miraculous faculties and powers), and enjoys unparalleled splendour and pomp. Sex-matters are also much rarefied in this heaven, and gratification is not in the gross form, mere contact, at times only conversation, taking the place of the grosser forms.
