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Those who are endowed with right knowledge and right austerity, possess the qualities of gentleness, are free from the three garvas and three shalyas, are not controlled by envy, jealousy, fear, and greed, maintain equanimity in pleasure and pain, friend and foe, are detached from the body, possess extreme dispassion, are free from the vices of attachment, etc., and diligently practice the fundamental and secondary virtues, bind the lifespan of the great, wealthy, and divine beings.
Those who give all four types of charity to the excellent, mediocre, and inferior recipients, and possess the moderate qualities of shame and decorum, bind the lifespan of the medium-wealthy, divine beings.
Beings who are deeply afflicted by the manifestation of knowledge and ignorance from time immemorial, have a corrupted character, are cruel, are on the wrong path, have a sense of attachment, and have weak passions, bind the lifespan of the lesser, half-wealthy, divine beings.
Question 137: What are the causes of the birth of the gods like Kandarpa, etc.? Answer: In the human realm, those beings who, while possessing the characteristics of sexual indulgence, etc., are associated with the Kandarpa results, are born as Kandarpa gods due to their appropriate good karma, and they are born until the end of the Ishana Kalpa, but not beyond. These gods are the lowest in the Ishana Kalpa.