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**Agam Sutra 39, Chhed Sutra-5, 'Mahanishith'**
Study/Purpose/Sutra Number from well-established knowledge, such five types of knowledge or those who possess well-established knowledge, aspiring to well-established knowledge, i.e., well-established knowledge seeker. Sutra -490
From no Agam, well-established knowledge seeker is of eight types - study well-established knowledge untimely, teach, receive well-established knowledge from disrespect, make others receive, read well-established knowledge from disrespect, read well-established knowledge without wearing any Upadhan, teach, hide the one who has read the well-established Sutra meaning, read the Sutra without vowels and consonants, with fewer letters, with more letters, teach, read the Sutra, meaning oppositely, teach. Read and teach the doubtful Sutra etc. Sutra -491
Those who read or teach well-established knowledge without wearing any Upadhan, those who approve of the reader or teacher as good, are the great sinners, aspiring to the great well-established knowledge. Sutra -492
O Bhagvant! If this is so, then should one wear the five auspicious Upadhan? O Gautam! First knowledge and then compassion, i.e., restraint, i.e., knowledge, leads to the cultivation of character and compassion. Compassion makes one see all the living beings, creatures, ghosts, and beings of the world as oneself. Seeing that all the living beings, creatures, ghosts, and beings of the world experience happiness and sorrow like oneself, one stays away from causing pain, torment, harassment, etc., to frighten, and terrify other beings. By doing so, there is no inflow of karma. By stopping the inflow of karma, the doors of inflow of karma are closed due to the same cause. By closing the doors of inflow, there is suppression of the senses and calmness in the soul.
Therefore, there is equality towards enemies and friends. From equality towards enemies and friends, there is freedom from attachment and aversion, from that, there is forgiveness, humility, simplicity, non-greed, from that, there is freedom from passions. From freedom from passions, there is right conduct. From right conduct, there is knowledge of the soul and other things. From that, there is freedom from attachment to everything. From no attachment to everything, there is destruction of ignorance, delusion, and falsehood, i.e., there is wisdom. From wisdom, there is a true understanding of what is harmful and what is beneficial, and a firm determination to attain solitary liberation.
From this, there is abandonment of what is harmful and practice of what is beneficial, one becomes very diligent in such work. After that, there is a gradual practice of the supreme Dharma, which is pure, excellent, forgiveness, etc., ten types, non-violence, and a concentrated and attached mind in practicing and making others practice. After that, i.e., the practice of the ten types of Dharma, including forgiveness, etc., and non-violence, there is concentration and attachment in the soul, there is abandonment of all attachments, which are the supreme forgiveness, supreme gentleness, supreme simplicity, supreme external wealth, gold, etc., and internal attachments, which are the form of desire, anger, etc. And there is self-absorption and supreme bliss in the practice of the twelve types of extreme, fierce, and painful austerities and vows.
Further, there is a firm determination to practice all the seventeen types of complete restraint. There is a firm determination to practice the supreme truthfulness in speech, the welfare of the six types of living beings, one's strength, vigor, effort, and prowess without hiding, and to practice the path of liberation. There is a firm determination to practice the supreme self-study, meditation, like water, to wash away the dirt of sinful karma. And then, there is the supreme non-possession, supreme purity, with all feelings, completely pure, free from all faults, with nine secrets, restrained from the eighteen places of restraint, i.e., abandoning the eighteen types of non-Brahma.
After that, there is the supreme forgiveness, humility, simplicity, non-greed, austerity, restraint, truthfulness, sorrow, non-possession, extreme firmness,
Muni Diparatnasagar Krit (Mahanishith) Agam Sutra - Hindi Translation
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