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PATII OF LIBERATION
(203) Though it is better to attain heaven by observing vows and penances than to suffer misery in hell by doing evil. There is great difference between one who stands in shade and the other standing in the sun.
(204) Through merit (punya karna) one may attain cakravarti-hood (i.e, supreme kingship) where great honour is bestowed on one by the Vidyadharas (demigods), gods and men through praising with folded hands and offering of garlands, but certainly he will not attain the right understanding braised by a bhavya (i. e. soul fit for salvation)
(205) The men of merit (punyātmā) after enjoying his divine status in heaven at the end of his life span will be born as a human being with ten types of worldly enjoyment.
(206) & (207) After having experienced for the entire life incomparable enjoyments appropriate to human beings one attains the right-understanding that leads to emancipation on account of the religious performances undertaken by one in one's earlier births. Having realized that four things (viz.human birth, listening to scriptures, having faith in scriptures, appropriate practical endeavour) are difficult to attain, one observes self-restraint and having annihilated one's past karmans through penance, one becomes for ever a soul emancipated.
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