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| The Sutra of the Angas of the Sutras says: He who performs many cruel deeds is thus devoid of discrimination, being devoid of the discrimination of the real and the unreal, like a child. For whatever deed of tormenting living beings he performs in the category of one-sense beings and so on, by that very deed he is 'measured', he dies, he is filled. Or, 'he is measured in violence', he is killed. Or, 'he is measured by many cruel deeds', 'this is a thief', 'this is an adulterer', and so on, he is measured by that very deed, he is covered. ||3|| Where then is he measured by those deeds? This is shown - - Commentary - The path of one-sense beings and so on is called the path of the category, or birth is called the category and death is called killing. These two are called category-killing. It should be known here that the 'h' that occurs in Prakrit is changed into both 'th' and 'dh' in Sanskrit. Therefore, here the two forms, category-path and category-killing, are presented. There, the living being wanders in the category of one-sense beings and so on. He experiences birth and death again and again. He is born in fire, air, and two-sense beings and so on, and in earth, water, plants and so on, and due to the result of the deed of punishment and violence, he is destroyed again and again. That living being, who is extremely punishing for living beings and who performs deeds with extreme cruelty and mercilessness, again and again taking birth, is devoid of the discrimination of the real and the unreal, like a child is ignorant. In whatever category of one-sense beings and so on he performs the deed of destroying living beings, by that very deed he dies, or he is killed as a result of that very deed, or he is recognized in the world as a man of very cruel deeds, 'this is a thief', 'this is an adulterer', and so on, as a result of that very deed. Where does he suffer due to his deeds? The author of the sutras reveals this, saying:
If you go to the other side, or if you are a hundred-pointed arrow, or if you are otherwise.
Those who are afflicted by the cycle of existence, they bind and torment the evil ones. ||4|| Shadow - Non-violence in the world, or on the other side, or a hundred-pointed arrow, or otherwise.
Those who are afflicted by the cycle of existence, they bind and torment the evil ones. || Translation - There is a deed that gives fruit to the doer in this very birth, and there is a deed that gives fruit in the next birth. Some deeds give fruit in one birth, while others give fruit in hundreds of births. Some deeds give fruit in the same way as they are done, while others give fruit in a different way. The wicked men always wander in the cycle of existence. They suffer the painful fruit of one deed, and they are tormented by that, which binds them to more deeds. Thus, they always suffer the fruit of their sins.
Commentary - Those deeds that are hasty, they give fruit in that very birth, or they give fruit in the next birth in hell and so on. They give intense fruit in one birth, 'a hundred-pointed arrow', in many births. In whatever way they perform that evil, so it is revealed, and so - 'otherwise', this is said - some deeds give fruit in this very birth, and some in the next birth, as the suffering fruit of the son of a deer is mentioned in the Shrutaanga Shruta Skandha, the long-lasting one is known to be in the next birth, in whatever way, once or many times, or in another way, once or a thousand times, the cutting off of the head, the cutting off of the hands and feet, and so on, is experienced. Thus, those who are skilled and those who are punished by the four paths, having entered the cycle of existence, wander through the cycle of existence like a potter's wheel, experiencing greater and greater suffering, and experiencing the deeds done in the past, they are tormented by one thought.
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