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## Self-Time Statement of Authority
A person, due to the family he was born into or the people he lives with, if he develops attachment, he suffers, is destroyed, or is distressed. Such an ignorant man becomes unconscious, deluded, or attached to other things, worldly objects.
**Commentary:**
This verse further elaborates on the nature of bondage. It says, "In which" (meaning the family, nation, etc.) a person is born, or with whom he plays in the dust as a child, or with whom he lives as a friend, wife, etc., in those (mother, father, brother, sister, wife, etc.), he develops attachment, thinking "this is mine," and becomes attached to them. Due to this attachment, he suffers, is destroyed, or is distressed. This is because of the karma generated by attachment, which binds him to the cycle of birth and death, characterized by hell, animal life, human life, and heavenly life. Who is this person? He is a child, ignorant, lacking the ability to discern between right and wrong. This means that due to excessive attachment, he becomes unconscious, deluded, greedy, and attached to various things. First, he is attached to his parents, then to his wife, and then to his children, and so on.
**Verse 5:**
Wealth, siblings, and even life itself cannot protect anyone from suffering. Knowing the impermanence and brevity of life, a being should strive to break free from the bonds of karma.
**Commentary:**
This verse explains how to break free from bondage. It says, "Wealth, possessions, whether animate or inanimate, and siblings, brothers, sisters, etc., all this" (meaning wealth, etc.) cannot protect a being from the intense physical and mental suffering that he experiences in this world. Knowing this, and knowing that life is short, a being should renounce attachment to possessions, animate and inanimate, and to life itself. He should also renounce harming other beings, attachment to family, and other forms of bondage. By doing so, he will break free from the bonds of karma. Alternatively, it could mean that he breaks free from karma through action, through the practice of self-control and discipline.