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PATII OF LIBERATION
(222) Those persons who are devoid of Right Faith will not obtain Right Knowledge, even if they practise severe penance for a thousand crores of years.
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(223) Those who have renounced Right Faith are deprived persons. There is no liberation for a person devoid of Right Faith. Those who have renounced Right Conduct may attain liberation but not those who have renounced Right Faith.
(224) He who has Right Faith is certainly pure; he who is possessed of Right Faith attains liberation. A person devoid of Right Faith does not attain the desired result (i.e. liberation).
(225) If on the one hand there be the attainment of right faith and on the other the attainment of (mastery over) all the three world regions, then the former attainment is preferable to the latter.
(226) What is the use of saying more; it is due to the magnanimity of Right Faith that the great personage and the Bhavya (those worthy of attaining emancipation) have attained liberation in the past and will do so in future.
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(227) Just as it is on account of its very nature that a lotusleaf remains untouched by water, similarly a righteous person remains really un-affected by passions and by the objects of sensuous enjoyment.
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