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On the contrary, if you attain a noble birth, then maintain
a good temperament, cultivate religious thoughts of non-
violence, control your sensual pleasures and gradually increase
feelings like forgiveness. For this devotional reverence of
God and Guru, serving saints, listening to religious discourse,
donation and penance is essential. By doing this if we again
attain a noble birth, then a good mentality, religious thoughts,
good actions are possible which again lead to a noble birth.
Thus a channel of good births eventually reduces the long
birth-cycle.
This is why knowledgeable men continuously warn us to not
spoil our thoughts and actions for the sake of temporary
material objects. They say, “Do not poison your mind or
else once it opens the doors of a low-grade birth, eventual
downfull cannot be denied. Because in such low-grade births,
negative thoughts are bound to overcome your heart and mind
which will again lead to a successive series of worse births
in future.”

That is why you should not keep your thoughts and actions
occupied constantly in this temporary materialistic world
because it will keep your heart poisoned eventually leading
to a spoilt birth cycle.

The above verse ‘Chirasanchiya’ depicts this great duty of a
Jain householder to pass his days engrossed in the religious
stories propounded by Tirthankara Lords. By contemplating
on the inspiring life-stories of great men, we can successfully
eliminate our previous karmas accumulated since a long time,
give rise to fresh Punya and thus improve our birth cycle.

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