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- The Shri Sutra Kritanga Sutra says that relatives are not truly friends or well-wishers. They are enemies - those who do harm. Just as a friend puts his arm around another's neck and cries, as if to say, "Friend! Do not take a step towards liberation, towards the highest state, come, let us both go towards the path of misery."
Those bound by kinship, like a newly captured elephant, are surrounded by their relatives. They follow behind, like a mother cow near her calf.
Commentary: Bound by kinship - enslaved by the ties of parents, etc., they are bound in various ways. These relatives, by doing everything to please him, create a sense of security. Like a newly captured elephant, he is treated with all kinds of things to make him feel secure, such as sugarcane pieces, etc. In the same way, he is treated with all kinds of things to please him. Another example is given: Just as a newly delivered cow stays close to her calf and follows behind, so too do these relatives, thinking of their renounced one as newly born, follow behind him, becoming followers of his path.
These ties are like a pit for humans, a place of danger. Those who are bound by them are unconscious.
Commentary: These ties are like a pit for humans, a place of danger. Those who are bound by them are unconscious.