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BOOK 1, LECTURE I, CHAPTER 2.
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But they do not cross the Flood of Life, who, ignoring the true relation of things, and not versed in the true Law, hold the above heretical opinions. (20)
They do not reach the end of the Samsara, who, ignoring, &c. (21)
They do not reach the end of transmigration, who, &c. (22)
They do not put an end to birth, who, &c. (23) They do not put an end to misery, who, &c. (24) They do not put an end to death, who, &c. (25)
They will again and again experience manifold pains in this ring of the earth, which is full of death, disease, and old age. (26)
The highest Gina, Mahâvîra the Gñâtriputra, has said that they will undergo births without number, being placed in all sorts of existences. (27) Thus I say.
SECOND CHAPTER. Again some2 say: 'It is proved that there are individual souls; they experience pleasure and pain; and (on dying) they lose their state of life. (1)
But misery (and pleasure) is not caused by (the souls) themselves; how could it be caused by other (agents, as time, &c.)? Pleasure and misery, final beatitude 3 and temporal (pleasure and pain) are not
1 Kakra vâla.
? They are the fatalists whose peculiar opinions are stated in verses 2 and 3.
8 Sêhiyam = saiddhikam, i.e. mokshê bhavam sukham. Another explanation of the commentator makes said dhika those pleasures which depend on external causes, as wreaths, sandal, &c., and asaiddhika the pleasures of the mind.
