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this world or of the next world and adopts such means (vows) etc. with religious aptitude only having desire of liberation. Therefore, the Drayalingi Muni is not found having any apparent perversity, only some subtle perversity is found in him which can be grasped by the true believer only.
Now it is being explained how they practise religious conduct and what perversity lies in it:
Firstly, in the world knowing the agonies and sorrows of hellish life, etc. and also the agonies of birth and death, etc. even in the heavenly life, they desire liberation being dejected from the world. So, everybody knows these agonies to be sorrowful. The Indras - Ahimindras heavenly gods enjoy sensual pleasures due to affection in carnal desires. Therefore, those persons who believe even such sensual pleasures to be sorrow only, and by identifying the imperturbable blissful state, desire to attain liberation, are to be known as true believers.
Secondly, the fruit of carnal pleasures, etc. results in hellish birth, etc.; body is impure, perishable and not worth fostering; relatives, etc. are selfish companions only; thus, considering the faults of other non-self objects, they forsake them. And the fruit of observing vows, etc. is birth in heaven or attaining liberation; observance of penances, etc. produces pure imperish-able fruit; torturing the body through them is desirable; the Deva-Guru-Shastra etc. are benedictory - likewise thinking the aforesaid qualities of other non-self objects, they (the Vyavaharaabhasis) accept and practise them only. Thus, in various ways, knowing some non-self object to be bad, believe it to be disagreeable and, knowing some other non-self object to be good, believe it to be agreeable. Therefore, believing non-self objects to be agreeable-disagreeable is perverse belief.
And due to such faith only, their feeling of renunciation is also of malicious form; because malice consists in knowing other things to be bad.
Someone may say. “The right believers too renounce other substances knowing them to be bad?"
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