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## Āgama Sūtra 39, Chhedasūtra-5, 'Mahānishīth'
**Study/Purpose/Sūtrāṅka**
The Kunthuā, with all its parts, experiences intense pain both internally and externally from mere touch. Its body starts to tremble, and being unable to speak, it cannot express its pain. But its mental and physical suffering is immense, like a burning fire. It thinks, "What is this? I have received this heavy, painful suffering. I am taking long, hot breaths. When will this suffering end? When will I be freed? What should I do to be free from this suffering? Where should I run? What should I do to alleviate the suffering and attain happiness? Or what should I cover myself with? What should I eat?" Due to the actions of these three classes, it is trapped in the intense suffering of Mahāduḥkha. It experiences the pain up to the Saṅkhyātī Āvalikā, and thinks, "I have an itch. This itch will not subside in any way." Sūtra - 263-265
**This determined human, what does he do now? O Gautama! Listen now. If the Kunthuā's life had not gone elsewhere, he would have scratched and scratched, killing the Kunthuā's life. Or he would have rubbed his body against the wall, causing the Kunthuā's life to suffer until death. While scratching the dying Kunthuā, that human is certainly in a state of extreme Roudra Dhyāna. Consider this: if that human were to know the nature of Ārta and Roudra, then such a scratcher is a pure Ārta Dhyāna practitioner. Sūtra - 266**
He who dwells in Roudra Dhyāna binds himself to the highest Naraka Ayusha, and the Ārta Dhyāna practitioner earns misfortune, femininity, unmanliness, and animal birth. Sūtra - 267-269
The restless human, desiring to be free from the itch caused by the touch of the Kunthuā's foot, experiences the following state. He says, "My beauty is gone." He is extremely miserable, grief-stricken, anxious, empty-minded, distressed, foolish, troubled by suffering, slow, taking long breaths, agitated in mind, and due to incessant suffering, he binds himself to the appropriate karma of an inauspicious animal and hellish being, and wanders in the cycle of births. Sūtra - 270
In this way, if the soul, through the power of Kṣayopaśama, overcomes the suffering caused by the Kunthuā, and for a moment attains equanimity and does not scratch the Kunthuā's life, then consider him to have crossed the great suffering. Sūtra - 271-275
He does not harm the helpless being, but makes it happy, and therefore experiences great joy. With a healthy mind, he thinks and reflects, "I have given refuge to a being." And then he thinks, "Now I have attained liberation and peace. I have destroyed the sinful karma and suffering caused by scratching. By scratching and harming that being, I do not know whether I will enter Roudra Dhyāna or Ārta Dhyāna. By multiplying the suffering of Roudra and Ārta Dhyāna, I will reach infinite suffering. I will suffer continuously, day and night, without a moment's respite. I will suffer in hell and animal realms, like an ocean of suffering, for countless eons. At that time, my heart will become like a liquid, and I will feel as if I am being melted by the fire of suffering." Sūtra - 276
When suffering the pain caused by touching the Kunthuā, he thinks in his mind, "It would be good if this suffering were not there." But at that time, he should contemplate, "How should I count the suffering of this itch caused by the touch of the Kunthuā?"
Muni Dīparatnasāgar Kṛt (Mahānishīth) Āgama Sūtra - Hindi Translation
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