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pride, deceit and greed) and further by pondering on twelve+four meditations-contemplations (given in this book) new punya karmas are earned and the bandha (bondage) of his past sins become mitigated or passive. This is the only way to create good luck and safeguard one's self from bad luck.
Someone may have question here that we feel we get happiness due to deity's krupa (good grace/ boon) and darshana (bowing)-bhakti (worship). To them my answer is- this joy or happiness is only due to your accumulated punyas of the past. When your past paapa gets manifested, no deity is capable to convert it into punya. Further to ask for the punyafala i.e. the fruits of your meritorious/ righteous deeds is like nidanshalya (cause of thorn like pain); and by asking you get a very little benefit of too many accumulated punya karmas. But while one is enjoying the benefits of one's punya karmas in this manner one binds too many paapa is the rule, which becomes the cause of one's pains in the future. So whether you ask or not you are bound to get the results/fruits of both paapa and punya and this is the eternal rule, then why one should ask for the fruits and invite, welcome and book the paapa. Rather never ask or beg for it. One must never ever ask or beg for it. Thus one fact is certain that, whatever pains or
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