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## Agam Sutra 39, Chhed Sutra-5, 'Mahanishith'
**Sutra-1402**
There are penances for study/purpose/Sutra number sequential or non-sequential as per the merit.
**O Bhagvant!** You have mentioned many types of penances. There is a conflict in these penances, O Bhagvant! Is there anyone who would accept such penances, who would criticize, condemn, confess, and perform penance as per the merit, and then worship the Shramanya, worship the teachings, and accept it for self-benefit, and worship his own work, and achieve his own work?
**O Gautam!** Understand the four types of criticism. Name criticism, establishment criticism, substance criticism, and feeling criticism. These four terms are explained in many ways and in four ways, in which, in brief, name criticism is understood only by name. Establishment criticism is written in books, etc. In substance criticism, the penance is explained in a simple way, but it is not done accordingly. These three terms, O Gautam!, are not commendable.
**O Gautam!** The fourth term, which is called feeling criticism, is to criticize the existing fault, to make a true request to the Guru, to condemn, to confess, to perform penance, to accept it for self-benefit, and to worship the ultimate meaning of the soul for the ultimate benefit of the soul. This is called feeling criticism.
**O Bhagvant!** What is feeling criticism?
**O Gautam!** The monk who has attained such feeling and detachment, who is a recluse in the worship of the four skandhas of good Shraman Dharma, namely, conduct, penance, charity, and feeling, who is completely free from the faults of pride, fear, arrogance, etc., who is free from all feelings and other feelings, who criticizes all sins, who attains purity, who says 'Tahatti' before criticizing, who performs penance well, and who follows the practice of restraint properly, is of this type.
**Sutra-1403**
**Sutra-1404-1407**
The soul that is beneficial does not even bind small sins. Their purity comes from the words of Tirthankara Bhagvant.
**Sutra-1408-1411**
How will we be purified? By abandoning the sinful actions that cause suffering in the terrible world, I will bear the burden of conduct through the actions of mind, speech, and body. Just as all Bhagvants, Kevalis, Tirthankaras, virtuous Acharyas, Upadhyayas, and Sadhus, and then just as the five Lokapalas, who are familiar with the Dharma of beings, I will not hide any sin, even as small as a grain of sand, in front of them. In the same way, I will criticize all my faults. Even if it is as heavy as a mountain, but can be attained through penance, I will perform it, so that the sin melts away immediately and I can be purified.
**Sutra-1412-1413**
Without performing penance, the soul dies in the next life and goes to hell, to the animal realm, to the Kumhipacak, to the Karvat, where it is cut from both sides, to the Shuli, where it is pierced, to the earth, where it is dragged on thorns and pebbles with a rope tied to its feet, to the standing position, to the piercing and breaking of the body, and then to the binding with ropes, chains, and shackles. Sometimes, one has to cross a waterless forest. Sometimes, one has to endure oppression in the form of a bull, horse, donkey, etc. Sometimes, one has to endure the burning of red-hot iron. Sometimes, one has to be led by a nose ring in the form of a camel or bull. Sometimes, one has to carry heavy loads. Sometimes, one has to carry loads beyond one's strength. Sometimes, one has to be pierced with a sharp arrow. And then, the chest, back, bones, and waist are broken. One has to endure thirst and hunger due to helplessness. One has to endure suffering, anxiety, poverty, etc. again.
**_So, in return, I will reveal my entire bad character, as I have performed it._**
**Muni Diparatnasagar Krit (Mahanishith) Agam Sutra-Hindi Translation**
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