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## Mahapratyakhyana (Great Renunciation)
**[30]**
The world is filled with those who are attached to Maya, parents, and friends, for the sake of worldly existence. Many are born in the cycle of births and deaths, and they do not find refuge or liberation.
(Mahapratyakhyana, Gatha 43)
**[31]**
One creates karma, another experiences the consequences of that karma. One lives in the cycle of birth, old age, death, and the four gatis (states of existence).
(Mahapratyakhyana, Gatha 44)
**[32]**
I would rather die than endure the suffering of birth and death, or the torments of hell.
(Mahapratyakhyana, Gatha 45)
**[33]**
One death, the death of ignorance, is the cause of many births. That death must be embraced, so that one may become liberated.
(Mahapratyakhyana, Gatha 49)
**[34]**
In the cycle of existence, all four types of beings are bound by karma. ... Through the accumulation of karma, the eight types of karma groups are formed.
(Mahapratyakhyana, Gatha 51)
**[35]**
Fish go to the terrible hell because of their food. One should not even think about food with a mind that is not pure.
(Mahapratyakhyana, Gatha 54)
**[36]**
Even with thorns, fire, salt water, or thousands of blows, this living being cannot be satisfied by sensual pleasures.
(Mahapratyakhyana, Gatha 55)
**[37]**
By destroying the net of delusion, by cutting the knot of karma, by breaking the chains of birth and death, one becomes liberated from the cycle of existence.
(Mahapratyakhyana, Gatha 66)