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Āgama Sūtra 39, Chhedasūtra-5, 'Mahānishīth'
Study/Purpose/Sūtrāṅka Sūtra- 1350-1354
Until you have a little bit of life left, until you can still do a little business, practice self-interest. Otherwise, you will have the opportunity to repent later. Like a rainbow, lightning, which disappears in an instant, this body is like a dream, like water filled in an earthen pot, which melts in an instant. Understanding this, until you are freed from this ephemeral body, practice intense, painful, severe austerities. There is no guarantee when the cycle of life will break. O Gautama! Even those who practice restraint for a thousand years in great abundance, their defilements do not become pure like a lotus at the end. Some great souls, like Puṇḍarīka Maharshi, achieve their goal in a short time, just as they have taken on conduct and śramaṇya. Sūtra-1355-1356
This being, surrounded by the suffering of birth, old age, and death, has no happiness in the world, therefore liberation is the only worthy object of instruction. O Gautama! To attain liberation in all ways and in all respects, this human birth received is meaningful.
Study-6-The Muni Dīparatnasāgar's Hindi translation is complete.
Muni Dīparatnasāgar's (Mahānishīth) Āgama Sūtra-Hindi Translation
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