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The Shri Sutra Kritanga Sutra. We are extremely saddened. There is no one else to nourish and sustain us besides you. You understand this well. You are a meticulous observer of subtle situations and you are a well-educated scholar. Therefore, nourish us, take care of us, otherwise just think, you have become a disciple and destroyed this world and by abandoning our sustenance, you are also ruining your afterlife. Virtue is gained by nurturing your distressed family. Therefore, the scriptures say, addressing the son:
O son! The householder is consumed by hardship in order to sustain his son and wife, he nourishes and sustains them with great suffering. This is the way of householders, or their way of life. You too should follow the same.
Those who are not restrained, are deluded by others and go towards delusion. They are drawn into the unevenness by the uneven, and they are again overwhelmed by sin.
Commentary: Some are cowardly and may do this, as it is said, "Others" etc. Some are of weak character and are deluded by others, their parents etc., and are drawn in. They are not restrained, they are deluded by others, they are deluded in their practice. Since it is the sole cause of worldly existence, unevenness, unrestraint, is drawn in by the objects of unrestraint, by those who are on the wrong path, who are afraid of hell, by passion and aversion, which are ingrained from beginningless time, and are difficult to break, they are drawn into unrestraint. And those who are thus, are again involved in sinful actions, they are overwhelmed, they have become arrogant, they do sinful actions and are not ashamed.
Commentary meaning: Some are cowardly, who, when favorable circumstances are presented by their parents etc., do as they do. The scriptures describe this.
Many men of weak character, are deluded by their parents etc., and are attached to worldly things, they become deluded. They deviate from right vision, right practice etc. In reality, apart from right vision etc., all the things of this world, even one's own body, are not one's own, they are others. Therefore, here, everything except the soul is called other. The main cause of the soul's repeated births and deaths in the world is unrestraint. Therefore, here, unrestraint is called unevenness. Those who walk on the wrong path, who are not afraid of their destruction, are brought into unrestraint by those who are unrestrained, they are pushed back into household life, and they engage in sin with arrogance. Passion and aversion are ingrained in worldly beings from beginningless time.
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