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First, the listener should not desire any worldly fruit from hearing the story. Similarly, the speaker should not desire respect, wealth, medicine, or shelter from the listeners. ||143|| The speaker should only preach the righteous path with the expectation of heaven, liberation, and other blessings, and the listener should listen with the same expectation. For the actions of the righteous are only for the attainment of true welfare, not for worldly affairs. ||144|| The listener who is endowed with qualities like devotion, etc., is considered praiseworthy. Similarly, the speaker who is adorned with qualities like affection, etc., is considered praiseworthy. ||145|| Devotion, listening, understanding, retention, remembrance, inference, rejection, and decision-making are the eight qualities of the listener. ||146|| The listener accumulates merit by listening to good stories, which leads to the attainment of heaven and other blessings, and ultimately to liberation. ||147|| Thus, I have described the beginning of the story to you according to the scriptures. Now I will tell you about the origin of this story, so listen. ||148|| It is heard that in the past, at the end of the third kalpa, the son of Nabhiraj, Lord Rishabhadeva, while wandering, came to reside on Mount Kailasa, the crown of the earth, by his own will. ||149|| The gods worshipped Lord Rishabhadeva, who was seated on Kailasa, with devotion, and praised him with their hands clasped in reverence. ||150|| The gods, pleased with the presence of the Lord, the teacher of the three worlds, built a Samavasarana there. The Lord, having attained liberation, started the Samavasarana. ||151||