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Bhagavān Śrt Gautania Swāmi asked: -0. Bhagavān!: what does a soul gain by benedictory poems, in the form of hymns and laudatory verses? O Gautama ! he acquires Tror Nāņa, Knowledge for Damsaņa, Conation after Caritta, Right Conduct and Bohilābha arheory Samyaktva.
The condition of the Soul before the acquisition of Samyaktva, is lescribed in the following Gāthā –
सामि ! अणाहअणते चउगइसंसारघोरकांतारे ।
मोहाइकम्मगुरुठिइविवागवसओ भमह जीवो ॥ Sāmil aņāi-añantè caugaisa sāraghorakāntārd; Mohāikammaguruthivivāgavasaö bhamai jivo ?
O lord I a jiva wanders in the formidable forest of Sam. sāra with four conditions of existence-without a beginning and without end-enslaved by the fruition of the matured state of the highest period of the eight karmas beginning with Mohaniya मोहनीय Karma.
मोहे कोडाकोडी, सत्तरिवीसं च नामगोयाणं ।
तीसायराणि चउण्हं, तित्तीसयराइ आउस्स ॥ Mohd-kodākodi sattarivisam ca nāmagoyāņam;
Tisayarāņi cauņhan tittisayarāi āussa.
The highest time-limit of Mohanīya Karma is seventy Kotākoti sāgaropams; the highest time-limit of Nāma Karma and Gotra Karma is tweventy kotā-koti sāgaropams; the highest time limit of the four viz:-Jnānāvaraniya Karma, Darśanāvaraniya Karma, Vedaniya Karma, and Antarāya Karma, is thirty kotā-koti sāgaropams; and the highest time-limit of the Ayu Karma is thirty-three sāgoro pams.
पल्लोवमाइअहा-पवित्तिकरणेणं को वि जइ कुणइ ।
पलिय असंखभागूण-कोडाकोडी अयरठि सेसं ॥ Pallova māiahā-pavittikaranèņam ko vi jai kuņai; Paliya asankhabhāgūņa-kodā- kodi ayaruthii sèsa!!!.
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