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to place sanctifying the land of this Aryabhoomi. They own no house, no family, are renouncers of wealth and woman, masters of the senses, and preservers of equanimity of mind under all circumstances, agreeable or adverse.
They do not commit himsa of any creature even by mind and of theft even in their dreams. They entertain no thought of carnal pleasure and have no attachment towards any worldly thing. Living such a life of rigorous austerities, it is the saints who annihilate the forces of Karma.
There are those, who though are not able to live a life of such exalted kind of ahimsa, observe ahimsa etc. in life partially. They are designated as householders of laymen who by living such a worldly life give battle to the battalions of Karma and destroy them.
The souls of the above three categories are inveterate ememies of Karma. Those who are wholly or partially the practitioners of the religion of ahimsa and the like and those who because of circumstances are not able to live such an exalted religion but are staunch partisans of such a religion, both the classes of men burn to ashes egregious stocks of Karma.
Friends, staunch liking for the religion of right conduct is the foremost and most potent a weapon for rending the chest of Karma.)
Thereafter strength gathers strength with the advance in higher practices of religion. However, if those, who do not possess the capacity to observe the above higher practices of religion, pay reverential respect even while living the life of householders, to the lives of the saints and householders living a virtuous life, can become free as possible from the clutches of Karma.
It means that it is the religion of paying reverential homage to virtuous souls that acts as a catalyst for the acquisition of all exalted kinds of religion and for bringing success to their practices. Mind, the one in whom reverence
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