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The Shri Sutra Kritanga Sutra is peaceful. The impurity and defilement of the body is the path of detachment, old age is the cause of forbearance, the renunciation of all things is the great festival for which to die is a great joy. Birth is only a source of joy for one's friends. For great souls, this whole world is filled with wealth. Where is there room for misfortune or sorrow?
Happiness arises only from happiness, to believe this, the state of this strange and diverse world does not come about, because those who dwell in heaven are eternally happy - they enjoy uninterrupted happiness. Due to the enjoyment of happiness, their rebirth should be in heaven itself. The beings who dwell in hell suffer only suffering, therefore their rebirth should be in hell itself. The beings who dwell in hell suffer only suffering, therefore their rebirth should be in hell. Therefore, the strangeness of the world, which is the result of beings going to different destinies according to their own karmas, cannot happen. This is neither scriptural nor desirable.
Do not despise this - the true Dharma. Do not be deceived by trivial, insignificant worldly pleasures and neglect this liberating happiness. If you do not abandon the wrong side, then abandon heaven etc. and you will regret it like a merchant who takes iron.
Commentary: 'Thus' the path of the Aryas, the teachings of the Jinas, the path of right faith, knowledge, conduct and liberation, is expounded. Those who are deluded by the delusion of 'happiness arises only from happiness' etc., 'despise' it, 'discard' it, 'by trivial' worldly happiness, do not 'destroy' 'much' ultimate happiness, the happiness called liberation. For, by pleasing food etc., there is an arousal of desire, and from that arousal, there is no mental health, but rather no concentration. Moreover, if you 'abandon' this 'wrong side' - the acceptance of the wrong side - 'in the absence of liberation', you will 'regret' yourself like a merchant who takes iron. Just as he who takes iron, even though he finds silver and gold along the way, does not abandon it, saying, "I have brought this iron from so far, how can I abandon it now?" Later, when he reaches his destination and sells the iron, he regrets it. So too, you will regret it.