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7. Becoming free from carelessness, always endeavour for True Religion, and, also, for abstinence from jivaghata they (Injury to living beings), and for efforts in meritorlous deeds.
8 People entrapped in infatuation for their sons and others, do a wicked action, and distressed by that wicked action, they degrade themselves to a position in the lower region (hell).
9. They become fettered innumerable times in thousands of births as lower animals like elephants, and beasts and what severe miseries do not these ignorant persons experience!
10-12. Therefore, knowing this, practise Yati Dharma (duties of an ascetic ) by all means. It is like a shower of rains for pacifying the fire of severe misery. Also, it is like the foot-path of a ladder for ascending svarga (heaven) and the abode of Final Beatitude; and it is like a sharp axe in cutting down the trees of Karmas Besides, it soon gives most excellent nißśréyasam (Final Emancipation ) It is certainly fit to be practiced constantly for persons who are desirous of happiness and who are endowed with power of energy.
On hearing the preaching, the King said :- Bhagavan ! Leaving off the care of my kingdom, I will entrust my son with the burden of my kingdom and I will take pravrajyä (rellglous mendicancy) as you advise " Guru Mahārāja said :-“ It is proper for a man like yourself who is afraid of worldly existences. You do that work speedily, so that there may be no obstacle in It; and diligently avold carelessness.
53. King Narasimha, then, returned to his palace and having done recessary work he called his ministers to his presence, and made thein acquainted with his own intentions. The ministers readily comprehended the entire situation. The private individuals who had been sent previously for careful search of the Kumāra, came to the king, and, with a low bow, they narrated the entire account of Nara-Vikrama Kumāra to the king, boginning with his leaving the town and ending with his acquisition of the
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