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The Upasakadasanga Sutra expounds. Well-formed, beautiful, and well-established acts of giving, good conduct, austerity, etc., are well-formed, excellent, and yield good results, while poorly formed, ill-established, sinful acts are inauspicious, sorrowful, and yield bad results. A being touches and binds itself to merit and demerit. Beings are born, there is birth and death for worldly beings. Auspicious acts of merit and inauspicious acts of demerit bear fruit, they are not fruitless.
In another way, the Lord expounds the Dharma. This is a discourse free from attachments, a teaching that liberates the inner attachments of the Jina teachings or of a being, a self-disciplined teaching, it is true, unsurpassed, the best, unique, or spoken by the Kevali, the omniscient, pure, very pure, completely free from faults, complete in all the qualities of a discourse, logical, consistent with reason, unhindered by evidence, and a remover of the thorns of delusion, etc., it is the path, the means to attain the state of perfection, the state of liberation, it is the path to the state of non-attachment, the state of freedom from greed, it is the path to liberation, the path that does not lead back, that does not fall into the cycle of birth and death, it is the path to Nirvana, the state of being free from all suffering, it is real, true, without interruption, and the path to the complete destruction of all suffering. Beings who abide in this attain perfection, or they attain the great perfections like anima, etc., they become Buddhas, knowers, omniscient, they are liberated, they are free from the karmic particles that bring about birth and death, they attain Nirvana, they are free from the suffering caused by karma, they are perfectly peaceful, and they end all suffering. Those who have only one human existence left, such as the Bhadanta, the blessed, or the devotees of the discourse free from attachments, are born as gods in some of the heavenly realms due to the remaining karmic residues. Those heavenly realms are full of great wealth, abundant riches, very pleasant, with great speed, and long-lasting. Those beings born as gods there are very powerful and long-lived. Their chests are adorned with garlands, they illuminate the ten directions with their divine radiance. They are born in the Kalpopag heavenly realm, in a divine bed, in the form of a youth. They are currently the possessors of the excellent divine state, and in the future they will attain the state of liberation, the state of blessedness, Nirvana, they are extraordinary in appearance.
The Lord further said that beings bind themselves to the lifespan of the hellish realm due to four causes, and as a result they are born in various hells.
Those causes are: 1. Mahaarambha, the feeling and action of extreme violence, 2. Mahaparigraha, the feeling and action of excessive accumulation, 3. Panchendriya-vadha, the killing of beings with five senses, such as humans, animals, birds, etc., and 4. Mans-bhakshan, the eating of meat.
Due to these causes, beings are born in the animal realm: 1. Maya-purna nikriti, deceitful trickery, 2. Alik vachan, false speech, 3. Utkanchanta, false praise or flattery, or the hesitation of a wise man near a cunning man who deceives a fool, or...