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## Āgama Sūtra 39, Chhedasūtra-5, 'Mahānishīth'
Study/Purpose/Sūtrāṅka Sūtra - 1105-1107
In the meantime, he went to Jineśvara for knowledge. But he did not see Jineśvara. Therefore, he set out to go to Gaṇadhara Bhagavant. Gaṇadhara Mahārāja does the prarūpaṇā of the sūtra and meaning that Jineśvara Bhagavant had explained. When Gaṇadhara Mahārāja was giving a lecture here, this speaker came and said, 'One and the same earth-bodied being experiences trouble everywhere. Who can be capable of protecting him?' Sūtra - 1108-1111
In this matter, this great-renowned one belittles his own soul. It is not appropriate to prove this point in this entire world. Why would he prarūpaṇā such a thing? His lecture is quite harsh to the ears due to its bluntness. It needlessly dries up the throat. There is no other benefit. Who can behave like this? Therefore, one should abandon this teaching and preach a normal or a moderate kind of dharma. So that those who come to us do not get bored. Sūtra - 1112-1116
Either I am truly a foolish sinner, a wicked person, even though I do not behave like that, but other people do behave like that. And then the infinite knower, the omniscient Bhagavant, has prarūpaṇā this truth. Whoever speaks against his words, his meaning cannot stand. Therefore, now I will do the most difficult, excellent kind of prāyaścitta, as soon as possible, in the shortest possible time, before my death. By desiring, I have committed such a sin that even the accumulated punya of a hundred years of the devas is destroyed by it. Now he is ready to do prāyaścitta. And with his own mind and imagination, he did that kind of great, terrible prāyaścitta and went back to each Buddha. Sūtra - 1117-1123
There too, while listening to the explanation of the sūtra, the same right came again, 'The beginning of the earth etc., the virtuous one should avoid the three-fold, three-fold', being quite foolish, he started thinking like a foolish, virtuous, ignorant person, that who in this world does not begin with the earth-bodied etc.? He himself is sitting on the earth-bodied, eating food cooked with fire, and all that is born from seeds and grains. Secondly, how can one live even for a moment without water? So indeed, this directly shows the opposite truth. I came to them, but they will not believe in this matter. So let them stay here, this Gaṇadhara Bhagavant is much better. Or else, they will not accept anything I say here. Why would they preach this kind of dharma? If the dharma is extremely bitter and difficult, then don't listen to it now. Sūtra - 1124-1138
Or put them aside. I will tell you a dharma that I myself can be happy with and everyone can do. This is not the time to do this harsh, difficult dharma. As much as he was thinking, in that much time, that thunderous lightning struck. O Gautama! He died there and was born in the seventh hellish earth.
Due to the opposite of the contact of the rule, śramaṇapan, śruta-jñāna, the being suffered for a long time in hell, came here and became a great fish in the ocean, again suffered for a long time in the seventh hellish earth, for thirty-three oceans, suffered such terrible pain, came here, the being of the god, was born as a crow among the birds. From there, he went to the first hellish earth, completed his lifespan, was born here as a wicked dog, and went back to the first hellish earth. From there, he came out, was born as a lion, died again, went to the fourth, and came here. From here too, he went to hell, the being of the god was born as a potter. There, he was a leper, suffered greatly, eaten by worms, for fifty years, suffered such unbearable pain from dependence, became inactive and withered, from there he was born in the deva-bhavana, from there...
Muni Dīparatnasāgara Kṛt (Mahānishīth) Āgama Sūtra - Hindi Translation
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