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lessons in the" Three jewels. " As teachers, however, they work only during a short period that intervenes between the fourth and the fifth or the last Kalyan or epoch of their worldly life. And then only, it is the influence of the Punya of the andience who gather around the Holy Teachers during those fixed periods that inspires the Kevalins in their Pre-nirvan periods, says the great author of the Samaya Sar, to undertake the work of expounding the path of salvation. Thus though the Gods are in a way related to the world as its teachers, they are, to use an usual Jain simile, lotuses in water i, e. related and yet aloof from the element, from which they grow and still remain free.
Says Lucretius ( II, 646. ) :—
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Omnis enim per se divom nature necesse est Immortali avo summa cum pace frvater, Semota a nostris relens subjunctaque louje. Nam privata dolore ommi, privata periclis, Ipsa suis pollens opibus, nihil indiga nostri,
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