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Self-time statement authority. Huh? Certainly, mental afflictions or complexities bind karma. In this regard, your and our views are in agreement. Therefore, it is inappropriate to declare the son-slayer father as sinless.
What the speaker stated elsewhere, that a hand does not burn from embers taken by another person's hand, similarly, the sin of karma does not bind from the consumption of animal flesh by another person - this statement is also like the ramblings or nonsense of a madman - not worth listening to. The reality is that even when consuming the flesh of an animal slaughtered by another person, the eater's approval is certainly involved. When approval is present, the binding of karma is necessary. Other philosophers also establish that the one who approves of killing an animal, who cuts and separates the animal's limbs, who takes the animal to the place where it is to be killed, who buys or sells the animal for slaughter, who cooks the animal's flesh, who eats that flesh - these eight individuals are violent, who are stained with sin from the killing of the animal. The aforementioned thinkers have established that the sin of killing an animal, causing it to be killed by another, and approving of it - the sin that occurs in these is a sign of their partial tasting - sampling - of the principles of the Vitaraga Lord. Therefore, those other philosophers who declare that four types of karma are not accumulated, do not bind, are devoid of the concern of karma - the subtle contemplation of the karmic process.
This is the view, the merchants of the seven treasures.
They take refuge, believing thus, and serve the fire. ||30||
Shadow - With these views, relying on the seven treasures.
Believing it to be refuge, people serve the evil. ||
Translation - Those thinkers who are engrossed in enjoying pleasures and fame, glory, prestige, etc., based on these views or principles accepted by them.
_Commentary - Now, to show the series of misfortunes of these action-oriented thinkers, he says - With these aforementioned views, that four types of karma do not accumulate, they, the thinkers, rely on the seven treasures, are attached to ease, do whatever they can, eat whatever they can get, and believe that this, their own philosophy, is the refuge capable of rescuing them from the world. Believing thus, they serve, do, the evil, the wrong, even though they are virtuous people, like ordinary people. ||30||
Commentary - The author of the scripture, revealing the futile, fruitless views of these action-oriented thinkers, says
Four types of karma are not accumulated - do not bind. Those other philosophers who follow this principle, while being attached to enjoyment and prestige, do everything. They do not pay attention to what is right and wrong. They eat whatever is available. They do not pay any attention to what is desirable and undesirable, etc. They believe that their philosophy - the principles accepted by them - are the ones that will rescue them from the ocean of the world. Their
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