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## Twenty Chapters
**465**
The practice of austerities involves the burning and restraint of the mind, senses, and body. This austerity, as described by the Jinas, is of twelve types. ||204||
The wise, desiring great liberation and the best kind of liberation, were always engaged in these twelve types of austerities. ||205||
They conquered the enemies (of the soul) and practiced for a long time the virtues of secrecy, community, non-attachment, forgiveness, and right conduct. ||206||
Then, desiring to meditate, they resided in places suitable for meditation, which were secluded, beautiful, and free from the causes of attachment and aversion. ||207||
These places included caves, riverbanks, mountain peaks, dilapidated gardens, and forests. They were not excessively hot or cold, and were accessible to all. ||208||
The time was not excessively hot or cold, and was conducive to the happiness of beings. The mental state was characterized by knowledge, detachment, patience, and other virtues. ||209||
"The substances that are conducive to the destruction of afflictions are the best. The Lord (of the soul) should engage in meditation for their attainment." ||210||
Sometimes, the knower of the true nature of the soul would meditate in the leafy retreats on mountaintops, sometimes in mountain caves, and sometimes on mountain peaks. ||211||
Sometimes, for the purification of the soul, they would meditate on the stone slabs on the peaks of beautiful mountains, where the sounds of peacocks were very pleasing. ||212||
Sometimes, for the sake of meditation, they would stay in inaccessible forests, where there were no traces of cattle, in secluded, uninhabited places. ||213||