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233. The pursuit of this three-fold path to Mokșa (Liberation), can be done with a small intensity, or with an average intensity and with very great intensity. He whose intensity is small reaches Mokșa in eight lives, whose intensity is average reaches Moksa in three lives and whose intensity is very great reaches Moksa in this very life.
234. He who desires to pursue this three-fold path to liberation, should always endeavour to protect and enlarge this pursuit. For this, he should develop a great reverence and regard for the Tīrthankaras, and an exemplary attitude of service towards other saints by bringing and doing whatever is needed by them, and thereby do all that is necessary for them to remain in excellent bodily health and mental equanimity.
235 & 236. He who remains in and endeavours to improve upon his qualities at all times; he who is blind, dumb and deaf towards the activites of others, he who is not subdued by pride, sensual desire, delusion, jealousy, anger and depression; he who longs for the joy and happiness born out of peace and tranquillity and which is there, at all time, in the state of liberation, he who is firm and steady in performing his duties and practices - how can such a great soul be compared with anyone in this human world ? Let alone the human world, but no denizenof the heavens can also come near (in joy and happiness) to such a great saint:
237. The joy and happiness of the heavens is (for one who is living in this world) known by others' description of it, and hence is far away. Similarly, the perfect happiness of Moksa is even much more further away. However the happiness of peace and tranquillity is direct and within reach of one's own experience. It is dependent on nobody or anything outside of one's self, (and it cannot be taken away by others) and one does not have to pay a farthing for it.
