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## Deeprayashti: The Trap of Attachment and Suffering (309)
A pure soul finds peace and tranquility in the end. This is a direct experience for everyone. But due to the delusion (viparayas), this being has a distorted mind and therefore follows the wrong path. It desires happiness through Rs'isa (violence) and other means! Therefore, seeking happiness, it becomes miserable! And abandoning the path of happiness like ahi'sa (non-violence), it embraces the path of suffering like hi'sa (violence) and struggles to find happiness, but being corrupted by happiness, it experiences only suffering! This being needs to go north, but it takes the southern path! This being desires the nectar of happiness, but it drinks the poison of suffering!
Similarly, ar'bh (attachment) is the cause of manifest agitation, and nirar'bh (non-attachment) is the cause of manifest tranquility. The more ar'bh and upadhi (attachments), the more agitation and suffering; the more nirar'bh and nirupadhi (non-attachments), the more tranquility and happiness. This is a self-evident and undeniable truth. Yet, the being with a deluded mind acts contrary to this, and behaves in the opposite way. It believes that by engaging in ar'bh and samar'bh (attachment and accumulation), it will find happiness. Therefore, it engages in acts of hi'sa (violence), ar'bh (attachment), and papacharan (sinful conduct), accumulating sin and earning its karma. For example, it believes that wealth brings happiness, and therefore, it engages in various sinful businesses and ar'bh (attachments) to acquire wealth, regardless of the means. Such as: agnikarm (fire-related work), vanakarm (forest-related work), shaktam (labor), bhatakarm (trading), dantavanijya (ivory trade), lakhvanijya (lac trade), rasavanijya (perfume trade), keshvanijya (hair trade), vishavanijya (poison trade), etc.
Ar'bh (attachment) is the cause of suffering. It grabs from all sides, and as ar'bh (attachment) increases, so does its friend, parigrah (grasping). This so-called parigrah (grasping) also, as its name suggests, holds the being captive, binding it. Then, this 'grah' (planet, evil spirit, or crocodile) like parigrah (grasping) holds the being so tightly that even if it wants to escape, it becomes difficult. It clings and clings, making it difficult to remove. Those who engage in worldly business or those who hold worldly possessions like kingdoms, experience this. These unfortunate souls, trapped in the web of parigrah (grasping), cannot even sleep peacefully at night. Thus, the ar'bh upadhi (attachment) that the being has created with its own hands becomes a source of agitation and suffering for the being itself! What one does with one's hands, one suffers from! The buffalo's horns become a burden to the buffalo itself!
Parigrah (grasping) is the cause of suffering. Thus, being drawn by the delusion of happiness in suffering, this being engages in sinful acts like hi'sa (violence).
x "इ'गाली वण साडी भाडी फोडी सुवज्जए कम्मं ।
नाळिષ્મ ચૈત્ર કૃતજીલસ વિજ્ઞવિસર્ચ ।।”—श्री प्रतिક્રમણ સૂત્ર