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religious rituals, but has forgotten the Self, then he is not on the true path. The ascetic Kamatha, who harassed Lord Parshwanatha, goes through the severe penance of five fires. In the blistering afternoon heat of the Vaishakha month, Kamatha sits on a plain outside the village, with a wood pyre on all four sides. He is experiencing the heat from five directions, making the body suffer great rigours. But, he has forgotten the world of the Soul, the Soul is untouched. The efforts are limited to misguiding the jivas of the world into mere bodily rituals.
Brothers! How can the illusion of the Soul be removed even with such heating of the body? How can the path to Moksa be attained? Therefore, Srimadji while describing the state of an atmarthi, has told us how the eligibility is, of a jiva desirous of the Moksa marga.
Now, what a tremendous effort such a jiva can put in, will be taken up next.
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