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while engaged in practising penance and self-control, went to the heavenly region. On the other side, when the worldly acts of self-interest of Amarsen lost their edge, desire for self-renunciation took hold of his mind. He entrusted his kingdom to his younger brother Vayarsen. He accepted the diksha and put on the clothes of a muni. He practised 'mahavrats' in the life of a muni. When he died, he attained godly status in the fifth heavenly region. Hereafter his soul will descend again in the region of 'Mahavideh'. Thereafter he will attain mukti. King Vayarsen will be proceeding to Shivpur in his fifth next life.
Persons devoted to wisdom and religion have always promoted the welfare of their soul. Persons who are attached to sensuous pleasures drift here and there and there in the ocean of worldly affairs. What shall we person who is actually seeing
say to a this state
