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## Āgama Sūtra 28, Payannāsūtra-5, 'Tandulavaicārik'
Sūtrasūtra-57
The body bends by the age of ninety and life is complete by one hundred. How much happiness and how much sorrow is there in this? Sūtra-58
For those who live for 100 years with happiness and enjoy worldly pleasures, even for them, the practice of Jina-bhashit Dharma is auspicious. Sūtra-59
What is best for those who always live in sorrow and painful circumstances? For them, it is their duty to follow the superior Dharma preached by the Jina. Sūtra-60
While enjoying worldly pleasures, one should practice Dharma with the thought that they will attain superior happiness in the next life. One who is sorrowful should practice Dharma with the thought that they will not attain sorrow in the next life. Sūtra-61
Neither caste, wealth, knowledge, nor good education can liberate a man or woman from the cycle of birth and death. All these things are only enhanced by good karma. Sūtra-62
When good karma (punya) weakens, so does one's strength. When good karma increases, so does one's strength. Sūtra-63
O Āyushmān! By performing virtuous deeds, one's joy increases. There is an increase in praise, wealth, and fame. Therefore, O Āyushmān! One should never think that they have enough time, āvalikā, moments, breaths, stoka, lava, muhūrta, days, nights, fortnights, months, ayana, years, yugas, hundreds of years, thousands of years, lakhs, crores, or kroḍa-kroḍa years to live. Where we will remain steadfast by adopting many vows, virtues, restraints, rejections, medicinal fasts, etc. O Āyushmān! Why not think that this life is certainly full of obstacles? In it, various diseases like vāta, pitta, śleṣma, sannipāta, etc., harm life? Sūtra-64
O Āyushmān! In the past, the Yugalik, Arihant, Cakravartī, Baldev, Vasudev, Cāran, and Vidyādhara, etc., humans lived for lakhs of years without any disease. They were very gentle, beautiful in form, enjoyed excellent pleasures, had excellent qualities, and had beautiful bodies. Their hands and feet were like red lotus petals and soft. Their fingers were also soft. They had excellent and auspicious signs like mountains, cities, crocodiles, oceans, and wheels, etc. Their feet were well-established and stable like a tortoise's, their thighs were like the deer and kuruvinda named grass, their knees were like the joint of a round box and its lid, their thighs were like an elephant's trunk, their gait was like a mad elephant, full of vigour and luxury, their private parts were like a superior horse of a good breed, their waist was rounder than a lion's waist, the middle part of their body was like a three-legged stool, a mace, a mirror, and a sword made of pure gold, their navel was like the swirling and circumambulating Ganges, like a group of waves, like a lotus spread by the rays of the sun, deep and profound, their body hair was beautiful, their nature was beautiful, thin, black, smooth, well-proportioned, beautiful, and very…