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## Chapter Fourteen
307. Ravana, filled with great devotion, bowed and praised, then sat down on the suitable ground, surrounded by the Vidyadharas. ||14||
Then, the Muni, revered like a disciple, asked Ravana, praised by the four types of Devas, the Tiryanchas, and the humans: ||15||
"O Bhagavan! People desire to know the fruits of Dharma and Adharma, and the cause of liberation for all. You are worthy of explaining all this." ||16||
Then, the Muni, dear to all, spoke words that were skillfully crafted, pure, full of meaning, concise, unbreakable, and beneficial to all. ||17||
"Bound by the eight types of Karma, beginningless and endless, this being, whose inner power is hidden by the Karma of knowledge-obscuration, etc., ||18||
continuously experiences pleasure and pain in countless lakhs of births, arising from various senses. ||19||
As the fruits of Karma ripen, whether mild, medium, or strong, he becomes attached, hateful, or deluded, and like a potter's wheel, he keeps revolving through the four states of existence. ||20||
Even attaining the extremely rare human birth, he does not understand his own welfare due to the Karma of knowledge-obscuration. ||21||
Subdued by the senses of taste and touch, beings perform highly condemnable actions, becoming burdened with the weight of sin, and fall into hells, which inflict great suffering arising from various causes, like stones sinking in water. ||22-23||
Driven by wealth, etc., some people, condemned by the world, kill their mothers, fathers, brothers, daughters, wives, and friends. ||24||
Some wicked people kill humans, birds, and deer, including those in the womb, the old, the young, and women. ||25||
Those with minds deviated from Dharma, with foolish intellect, kill land and water creatures, and all of them fall into the terrible hell of Puruvedana. ||26||
Those who kill honeybees, are cruel, are Chandala, set fire to forests, are devoted to violence, are sinful, are Kaivarta, and are low-born greedy people, ||27||