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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
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ties like fasting and four interual austerities like Prayaschiththa (purification). In all, there are twelve Tapas or austerities. By means of Tapas the Karmas are destroyed and the atma is relieved of the burden of Karmas.
In this manner, the two Gods, the three mentors and the four dharmas combine to constitute Navapada. We can attain paramapata or moksha or salvation by ineditating on them (Wavapart) and hy practising austerities. The fruit of salvation energets from the seed of renunciation or the renunciation of all physical anal sensnal pleasures. Thus the human soul towers into path less heights; naked of its fleshly vesture, a Might, a Flame, a Beauty, il violent ecstasy, a sweetness that knows no retreat to the sordid plains of human existence from those splendin heights of freedom and felicity.
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