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## Āgama Sūtra 39, Cheda Sūtra-5, 'Mahānishītha'
**Study/Purpose/Sūtra Number Found?** Oh Gautama! With what kind of feeling was the Aloayana given, with what kind of emotion was such a severe, difficult, great penance performed? With what kind of pure determination was that kind of extremely severe, heroic, fierce, painful, extremely difficult penance practiced? While practicing that, following the unblemished, unoffending, fundamental, excellent qualities, performing the duties of a Niratichar Shraman, freed from the fierce meditation, the sorrowful meditation, the passions, hatred, delusion, false belief, pride, fear, arrogance, etc., remaining in the middle path, free from humility, with a noble mind, the wise and auspicious Shraman, after performing the Sanlekhana for twelve years, accepting the Anashan of eating only fruits, with that kind of solitary, auspicious determination, did not attain only one Siddhi, but if perhaps he could transfer the karma done by others, then he would have attained the destruction of all the karma of all the Bhavyasattvas and Siddhi.
But the karma done by others is never transferred to anyone. The karma that one has earned, one must suffer it. Oh Gautama! When you become the one who stops the Yoga, then you become the one who destroys the entire karma-mass, but only through the small divisions of time. The destruction of karma of the one who binds karma well and the one who stops the Yoga has been seen, but the destruction of karma by counting time has not been seen. It is said in Sūtra-1518-1523:
Time consumes karma, time binds karma, one binds, one destroys karma. Oh Gautama! Time is infinite, the one who stops the Yoga knows karma, but does not bind karma. He destroys old karma, he has only a reduction of new karma. This is how to know the destruction of karma. Do not count time in this matter. Even though this being is from beginningless time, karma is not complete. When the development of the Virati Dharma occurred due to the destruction and pacification of karma, then, obtaining the time-field, the Bhav and the Bhav dravya, the being, being vigilant, consumed karma, then the being progressed in the Koti path. The one who is negligent binds karma for an infinite time. In the four gatis, the beings who dwell in eternal suffering, therefore, obtaining time, field, Bhav, and Bhav, the intelligent soul quickly destroys karma. Sūtra-1524
Oh Bhagvant! Where was that wise and auspicious one born? Oh Gautama! In the sixth hell, the earth. Oh Bhagvant! For what reason? When the nine months of her womb were complete, she thought, "Tomorrow morning, I will abort the fetus." With this determination, she gave birth to the child. After giving birth, she died immediately. For this reason, the wise and auspicious one went to the sixth hell.
Oh Bhagvant! The child she gave birth to, did he live or not? Oh Gautama! He lived. Oh Bhagvant! How? Oh Gautama! As soon as he was born, the child remained clinging to the fat and blood of the womb, covered in foul-smelling substances, pus, salty, foul-smelling, impure things, an orphan, wailing. A dog placed him on the potter's wheel and began to devour him. Therefore, the potter saw the child, then he and his wife ran towards the child. The dog ran away without destroying the child's body. Then, the compassionate, kind-hearted potter, thinking, "Since I don't have a son, this will be my son," gave the child to his wife. She, with true affection, cared for him and raised him as a human being. The potter, out of social custom, with pride in being his father, named him Susadhu.
Oh Gautama! In due course, he met a virtuous person. Hearing the teachings, he became enlightened. And Susadhu took initiation. He attained supreme faith, emotion, and detachment. He performed extremely severe, heroic, fierce, painful, difficult, great penances. But he did not know how to practice restraint. Due to the fault of Ajayana, he committed offenses in all places where there was no restraint. Then his Guru said to him, "Oh! Great powerful one! Due to the fault of ignorance, you...