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**Meaning:** Just as a stationary or mobile poison kills the one who eats it immediately, so too does this poisonous ritual, when performed with the desire for worldly pleasures - the desire for favorable food, etc. in this life - destroy the auspicious mind. ||4||
**Meaning:** Due to the desire for divine pleasures, the performance of the ritual leads to the destruction of the fruits of one's virtuous actions in the future. Therefore, such a ritual performed with such a desire is called a "gara-anusthana". ||5||
**Meaning:** Just as the poison called "gara", which arises from the combination of impure substances, kills in the future, so too does this "gara-anusthana" truly kill the soul in the future (in the next life, etc.). ||6||
**Meaning:** To prohibit these two types of rituals, which cause various kinds of harm, the Tirthankaras have declared them to be the cause of all suffering. ||7||