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SOURCE OF ILLUMINATION (18) The teachings of Jina are nectar-like medicine for weaning away people from all mudane pleasures, for curing them of ailments of old age and death, and for relief from all miseries.
(19) I bow down my head with devotion to the vast ocean of scriptural knowledge preached by the Worthy souls and properly composed in the form of scriptures by the Venerable Gañadharas ( (group leaders of ascetic order).
(20) That which has come from the mouth of the worthy souls is pure and completely free from contradictions is called the āgama or the Scripture and what is recorded in the Scriptures is verily ture.
(21) Those who are fully devoted to the preachings of the Worthy Souls and practise them with sincerity shall attain purity and freedom from miseries and shortly get emancipation from the cycle of birth and death
(22) Oh the Conqueror of all attachments: Oh, the world teacher: Oh the blessed one through your grace may I develop detachment to the mundane world, continue to follow the path of Salvation and attain fulfilment.
(23) He, who is conversant with the doctrines of his own as well as that of others, is serene, illuminated, benevolent, gentle and possessed of hundred of other virtues-is fit to expound the essence of the Scriptures.
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