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## The Sixty-First Chapter
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The truth that is spoken about the great virtues is lost first by one addicted to gambling. Shame, pride, family, happiness, courtesy, relatives, dharma, wealth, land, house, fame, parents, children, wives, and oneself are all lost.
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One addicted to gambling does not bathe, eat, or sleep due to excessive attachment. He does not gain wealth, but suffers in vain and accumulates many sinful deeds.
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He performs wicked actions, becomes an enemy of all, begs from others, and engages in actions that are not worthy of him.
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He is abandoned by his relatives and suffers punishment from the king. Who can even describe the faults of gambling?
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King Suketa is an example of this, as he lost his kingdom due to gambling. Therefore, one who desires the welfare of both worlds should abandon gambling from afar.
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Suketa, having lost everything, was overwhelmed with grief. He went to the feet of Sudarshana Acharya and listened to the Jina Agama.
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He immediately renounced the world and took initiation, although his mind was not pure. He abandoned food due to grief and performed very difficult austerities.
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After performing austerities for a long time, he realized at the end of his life that through these austerities, his skills, qualities, intelligence, and strength would manifest.
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Having made this realization, he renounced the world and died a natural death, attaining the heaven of Lantava. There, he enjoyed heavenly pleasures for fourteen oceans.
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From there, he descended to the earth and was born as the son of King Bhadra of the city of Dvaravati. He was named Swayambhu and was the most beloved son of the king.
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Dharma was Balabhadra, and Swayambhu was Narayana. Both had great affection for each other and enjoyed the prosperity of the kingdom for a long time.
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The powerful king who had won Suketa's kingdom in gambling in a previous life was reborn as King Madhu in the city of Ratnapura.
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Due to the karmic residue of their previous birth, Swayambhu, with anger, cursed Madhu, saying that he would be deprived of even the slightest knowledge of the scriptures.
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All the scriptures say that there is no vice as low as gambling among the three vices of alcohol, meat, and hunting, and the four vices of gambling, theft, prostitution, and adultery, which arise from lust.
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1. For wealth, for the sake of wealth.
2. Sudarshana Acharya's feet.
3. Impure intention.