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## Sutra Kritanga Sutra, Chapter 3: Introduction
**Commentary:** This is the beginning of the third section of the Vaitaliya study. The second section has been completed, and now the third section begins. The connection between these two sections is as follows: In the end of the second section, it was stated that those who have renounced sins - evil karmas - cross the ocean of existence. Now, in this section, it will be explained that when a sage encounters trials and tribulations, they should endure them. This is because enduring them leads to the destruction of karmas born from ignorance.
The author of this section states that the purpose of this section is to explain that enduring trials and tribulations leads to the destruction of karmas born from ignorance. Therefore, a sage should endure them. This third section is meant to explain this. Its first sutra is:
**Sutra 1:**
* **Sanskrit:** संवुडकम्मस्स भिक्खुणो, जं दुक्खं पुढे अबोहिए ।
ते संजमओऽवचिजई, मरणं हेच्च वयंति पंडिया ॥१॥
* **Shadow:** संवृत्तकर्मणः भिक्षोः यदुःखं स्पृष्ट मवोधिना ।
तत्संयमतोऽवचीयते मरणं हित्वा व्रजन्ति पंडिताः ॥
* **Translation:** The monk who has restrained his karmas - stopped the influx of the eight types of karmas - experiences suffering due to ignorance. This suffering, through the practice of restraint, diminishes. Wise and discerning individuals, having renounced death, proceed towards liberation.
**Commentary:** The monk who has restrained his karmas - stopped the influx of the eight types of karmas - through the practice of right conduct, wrong views, non-renunciation, carelessness, passions, and enjoyment, experiences suffering due to ignorance. This suffering, through the practice of restraint, diminishes. This means that the karmas bound due to ignorance, through the practice of the seventeen types of restraint as mentioned by the Tirthankaras, diminish and are destroyed every moment. This is similar to how water in a pond, with a blocked entrance, diminishes every day due to the sun's heat. Similarly, the monk who has restrained his karmas, through the practice of restraint, diminishes the karmas accumulated due to ignorance over many lifetimes. Those who have restrained their karmas and practice right conduct, having renounced death - the nature of death, the characteristics of death, the death of birth, old age, and sorrow - proceed towards liberation. Wise and discerning individuals, knowing the difference between right and wrong, say that this is what has been said before.