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## Forty-First Chapter
**285**
The fourfold classification should be applied to the *murti* (image) and others as well. Due to the confusion arising from the Puranas, some consider only three categories. [169]
A muni who desires to attain divine *murti* should emaciate his own body and protect the bodies of other beings while performing austerities. [170]
Considering the characteristics of the Jinas, he should contemplate their characteristics and perform austerities, having himself acquired those characteristics. [171]
Wishing for the inevitable and continuous beauty of the divine, the muni should perform severe austerities, diminishing the beauty of his own body. [172]
Having abandoned the radiance emanating from his own body, his body being impure, the muni, meditating on the radiance of the Lord, will quickly become radiant. [173]
Abandoning the brilliance of his own jewels, oil lamps, and other sources of light, the muni, worshipping the luminous Jina, will become a yogi, radiant with a halo of light. [174]
Abandoning weapons, clothes, and other weapons of the past, the yogi, worshipping the Jina, will become the lord of the wheel of Dharma. [175]
Abandoning the rituals of bathing, etc., and taking refuge in the liberated Jina, the muni will attain the supreme anointment of birth on the peak of Mount Meru. [176]
Abandoning his worldly ownership and serving the supreme Lord, the Jina, the muni will be served by all beings in the world. [177]
Abandoning the different types of seats suitable for him, the muni, becoming a Digambara, will ascend the throne and become a propagator of the Tirtha. [178]
**Footnotes:**
1. *Parigraha* (possessions)
2. *Divya-murti*, *Vijay-murti*, *Parama-murti*, *Svatma-uttha-murti* - these terms should be applied in the same way in the following verses.
3. *Siddh* (liberated souls)
4. *Dhyatva* (contemplating)
5. *Guna* (qualities)
6. *Mlani* (diminishing)
7. *Jina* (liberated being)
8. *Tela-amyanga-na* (oil lamps)
9. *Divya-astra* (divine weapons)
10. *Vyastra* (weapons)
11. *Samanya-astra* (ordinary weapons)
12. *Prakrista-jnana-atishya* (superior knowledge)
13. *Swamitva* (ownership)
14. *Nijopavarha-asana-adi* (seats for personal comfort)
15. *Ni-parigraha* (without possessions)