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The Sutra-Kritanga Sutra says, "Who takes hold of the end?" The solution is, "He certainly obtains it." We will explain this with an example: Just as a barber's razor, the tool for cutting hair, moves from its end, from the edge that exists at its end, so too does the wheel of a chariot move on the path from its end. The meaning is that just as the end of the razor, etc., is the part that performs the action, that accomplishes the task, in the same way, the end of worldly enjoyment and the karmas of attachment and delusion, which are attractive, is what destroys this miserable, sorrowful world.
The wise ones practice the end, therefore they are the destroyers of the end here. Here in the human realm, people worship Dharma. ||15||
Commentary: The Sutra-kar, explaining the meaning of the previous verse, says, "The wise ones, the great souls, who are free from the desire for worldly pleasures, practice the end, the end of the objects of desire, the passions, and the thirst for them, and the end of the karmas related to them, the end of gardens, etc., and the end of food, etc." By practicing the end, by practicing the end of the objects of desire, they become "destroyers of the end," destroyers of the world, or destroyers of the karmas that are the cause of the world. "Here" means in the human realm, in the realm of the Aryas. Not only the Tirthankaras, etc., but also other beings who have attained a place in this human realm, worship Dharma, which is characterized by right faith, right knowledge, and right conduct. These "people," these humans, who are born in the womb of the karmic field, with a lifespan of countless years, obtain the materials for righteous conduct, and become "those who have attained their goal," free from all dualities. ||15||
The gods have declared that the self is the only thing to be known,
Or, this self is the northern direction. It is not so among non-humans. ||16||