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## Agam Sutra 39, Chhed Sutra-5, 'Mahanishith'
Study/Purpose/Sutra Number Sutra-10-11
In this way, all beings know Dharma-Adharma, Sukh-Dukha, etc. Gautama! Among them, there are some beings who do not practice Dharma, which is beneficial to the soul, due to Moha and ignorance. And then, if someone practices such Dharma, which is beneficial to the soul for the afterlife, out of Maya-Dambha, they will not feel its benefit. Sutra-12-14
This soul is mine. I know my soul truly. It is difficult to realize the soul. Dharma also happens through self-witness. Whoever considers something beneficial or dear, they establish it on a beautiful path. (Because) a lioness considers her cruel child to be more dear. All beings in the world, without thinking that "other souls are like my own", imagine the soul as Anatma and behave with evil speech, body, and mind, including actions. When that soul is called innocent. It is free from impurities. It has abandoned partiality. It is far away from the sinful and impure heart. And it is free from the net of equal faults. Sutra-15-16
Such men, who are established in the true meaning, the essence, and who prove the wonderful thing, through the rituals performed by them, that (innocent) soul delights itself. Such a soul has the highest Dharma, the highest Tapas-Sampatti, good character, and conduct, therefore, they attain the highest state. Sutra-17-18
O Gautama! There are also some beings who have reached such a high level, but still practice Dharma with a 'Shalya' (blemish) in their mind, and cannot understand the benefit of the soul. If such a person, with a 'Shalya', performs Tapas of the painful, fierce, severe, and heroic class, like a deity, for a thousand years, will that Tapas be fruitless? Sutra-19
The 'Shalya' which is not criticized. It is not condemned or dusted, or the scriptural atonement is not done. That 'Shalya' is also called sin. Sutra-20
Maya, Dambha, and deceit are not appropriate. Performing big secret sins, practicing Ajayana and Anachar, keeping 'Shalya' in the mind, all this accumulates eight Karmas. Sutra-21-26
_ Asanayam, Adharma, lack of good character and vows, being with Kshaya, impurity of Yoga, all these destroy good deeds and virtues, and make one wander in such a terrible state from which one cannot escape, and then one has to suffer extreme anguish in the endless world full of physical and mental pain, some get ugliness of form, poverty, misfortune, pain that causes havoc, a living being who gets deprived, cruelty, lack of compassion, cruelty, lack of mercy, shamelessness, a hidden heart, crookedness, opposite mindedness, attachment, hatred, delusion, terrible falsehood, destruction of the right path, getting disgrace, disobedience, ignorance, being without 'Shalya', all these are Bhavo-Bhavas. In this way, many synonyms of the sin 'Shalya' are explained. Sutra-27-30
_ Once, a person with a 'Shalya' heart, in many other births, suffers from 'Shalya' pain in all limbs and appendages repeatedly. That 'Shalya' is described in two ways. Subtle and Gross. Both of them have three types each. Severe, Fierce, and Fiercer. Severe Maya is of four types. It is severe, fierce, human-like, and also full of Maya, greed, and anger. Similarly, understand these four divisions of Fierce and Fiercer. The Muni, by liberating these 'Shalyas' with their subtle and gross divisions and their sub-divisions,
Muni Deepa Ratna Sagar Krit (Mahanishith) Agam Sutra-Hindi Translation
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