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Translation preserving Jain terms:
O you who are conquered by passions! You have no refuge, being conceited fools. Abandoning your previous associations, you have become teachers of duties.
Commentary:
The author, addressing the disciple, says that these (people) who believe in other philosophies are conquered by the six enemies - desire, anger, delusion, greed, pride, and hatred. They have no refuge to escape the cycle of birth and death. They have no stability anywhere. They are truly ignorant, but consider themselves as learned and wise. Though they have abandoned their family relationships and left home, they remain attached to possessions and still give instructions on the duties of a householder.
The connection with the previous section is that in the previous section, it was stated that the heretics are born in the abodes of the Asuras due to their sinful conduct. Why is that so? Because these (people) are conquered by adversities and calamities, and the connection with the previous sutra is this - "He should understand and reject (them)." And then this is also to be understood - just as these proponents of the doctrine of the five elements, the self, and the body, and the followers of the Gosala doctrine, are conquered by adversities and calamities, and by the six enemies of desire, anger, greed, pride, delusion, and intoxication, so the connection with other sutras is also to be inferred.
Having established this connection, the explanation of this sutra is now presented. "These" refers to the proponents of the doctrine of the identity of the five elements, the self, and the body, the followers of the Gosala doctrine, and the Trairasika, who are conquered and overpowered by attachment, aversion, and other sense objects, as well as by the powerful delusion-born ignorance. "O you" is an address to the disciple, meaning "Accept this as such, that these heretics, due to their incorrect instruction, are not worthy of refuge for anyone, nor are they able to protect anyone."
Why is this so? Because they are like children, lacking the discrimination between right and wrong, and whatever they do or say is meaningless. Similarly, these (people) too, though ignorant themselves, delude others. And though being such, they consider themselves learned.
Alternatively, the reading "where the child is lost" indicates that where there is ignorance, the child (i.e., the ignorant person) is lost. There they (the heretics) are established, since they are not able to provide refuge to anyone. And what they have practiced wrongly, that is shown in the latter half - "Abandoning their previous associations" means that abandoning their connections with wealth, grains, and kinsmen, we (the ascetics) have become free from attachments. But again, they are bound and attached to the undertakings of possessions, and the instruction they give is the harmful activity of cooking, serving, grinding, and pounding, etc. for the householders. Or alternatively, "they may be" - the plural is used due to the archaic nature, meaning "the duties, the main activities, those who are teachers of duties, the ascetics, though they have renounced, do not differ from the householders in all situations, being engaged in the five sensual activities."