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self-control by ever practising Truth and other virtues and purify their persons by bathing in the sacred waters of continence. Nodoubt the soul feels pain in performing the several kinds of external and internal austerities; but wise and virtuous men, by the peculiar combination of knowledge and deed very quickly break through the bondage of Karma and become free for ever. Thus austerity turns out like earnest money for all-round welfare and is the source of happiness that salvation brings.
A householder who is a traveller on the path to salvation, and discards the four passions, anger, arrogance. illusion and greed, and who accepts the four inexhaustable ways to salvation, Right Knowledge, Right precept, Right Character and Austerity, is ever attended by the quality of Right perception, and the lamp of wisdom lights up his path, strength of character affords him constant support and fear itself flees away from him in terror. The abode of that man is filled with unimaginable bliss, who constantly carries in his heart the noble message that comes from the mouth of God and which enhances pure happiness, needs no other ornament to decorate his body as he always wears a necklace of the precious gems of virtues, of faith, forbearance, modesty, gentleness, truth, reverence, simplicity, equanimity and purity
In order to reach this state a householder should be a irm believer in the doctrine of SYADAVADA, one of
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