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movements. Many types of dejection is in the ocean. The large quantity of water in the ocean indicates the fruits of bad Karmas collected by the living beings earlier and which is now being experienced in the form o rolling about in whirlpool (of birth and death). It is extremely unstable
like lightening. Just as there is no one in the ocean to provide protection 4 to the aquatic animals in trouble, similarly in this world, there is none to $i provide relief to the people from experiencing fruits of their past bad Karmas.
Ego of prosperity, taste and comfort in the world is represented in the ocean by aquatic creatures of violent nature. They catch the living beings bound by their past Karmas and carry them away to hell just as the violent-natured acquatic animals carry away the other creatures to the bottom of the ocean. Those living being then feel extreme pain and dejection in the hell as the caught acquatic animals feel at the bottom of the ocean. This ocean is full of such troubled and dejected living beings. There are protruding rocks in the sea, which represent dislike for ascetic restraint, liking for non-restraint, fear, seeking of mercy, sorrow and
wrong perception in the worldly beings. The prevalent mud in the sea i represents bondage of Karma since the beginningless period and the
disturbance caused by attachment and hatred. So it is very difficult to cross this ocean. The rising storms in the ocean represent the movement of the mundane soul in four states of existence namely the celestial state, human state, animal state and hellish state of existence. The zigzag changes represent this movement. This is its vast expansion. It is difficult to find the bottom of the ocean of existence, which is full of violence, falsehood, stealing, co-habitation and attachment and in doing, getting done and appreciating such activities leading to the collection of eight types of Karmas that make the mundane soul heavy with its load
of Karmas. Same is the case with ocean where it is difficult for aquatic \i beings to find the bottom as they are thrown away by the vast flow of 'i water.
The person deeply engrossed in this ocean of mundane existence experiences physical and mental troubles. As a result of the influence of pleasure and pain concerning this worldly life, they sometimes try to come up and swim at the surface of this ocean and sometimes try to drown. This worldly ocean is extremely large in the four directions due to
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Shri Prashna Vyakaran Sutra
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