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There is also residence. Due to the tendency to engage in deceit and fraud, and due to excessive attachment, the living being is born in the animal realm. 86. Question: What is the nature of the human realm? Answer: Those who can constantly contemplate the worthy and unworthy, the true and the false, the attained and the unattained, dharma and adharma, etc., who can contemplate the merits and demerits, remember, etc., through the mind, who are excellent in matters of the mind, skilled in arts and crafts, etc., who can attain liberation through austerity, and who are born from humans at the beginning of the age are called humans, and their realm is called the human realm. Humans reside in the two and a half islands. There are two divisions of humans: Aryakhandaja and Mlechchhakhandaja. Due to a small beginning, few possessions, and a simple nature, the living being is born in the human realm. 17. Question: What is the nature of the divine realm? Answer: Those who play as they please in various islands and oceans through the eight powers of anima, mahima, etc., and whose form, beauty, youth, etc., are always radiant, are called gods, and their realm is called the divine realm. Their