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## Agam Sutra 39, Chhed Sutra-5, 'Mahanishith'
Study/Purpose/Sutra Number Study-5-Navaneet Saar Sutra-684-685
This way, by abandoning the worldly attachments with all efforts, those who enter the right path and earn their livelihood through a particular profession and reside in that particular path, do not attain freedom from obstacles, effortless asceticism, self-control, austerity, and beautiful emotions. Not only that, but liberation also remains far away from them. Sutra-686-691
O Gautam! There are beings who reside in the path that leads to liberation and wander in the cycle of birth and death. Even though they reside in the Guru's abode for half a night, a night, a day, a fortnight, a month, or a year, those who are pleasure-seeking, lazy, or have a dull mind or heart, O Gautam! Even those with a dull enthusiasm, upon seeing the side of such a noble and virtuous ascetic, become eager to perform all actions with great effort. And then, witnessing, doubt, fear, and shame, their energy becomes aroused. O Gautam! When the energy of a being is aroused, it burns the karmas performed in past lives with the emotions of the heart. Therefore, one should carefully examine the path that leads to liberation and reside in it with a controlled monk for the rest of their life. Sutra-692
O Bhagvant! Which paths are suitable for residing in? O Gautam! The path where there is an equal attitude towards both enemies and friends. The path where there are ascetics with a very pure and clear inner consciousness, who are afraid of indulging in desires, who are dedicated to the welfare of their own and others' souls, who have immense compassion for all the six categories of beings, who are free from all distractions, who are extremely vigilant and specifically identified, who are harmonious with the scriptures, who are free from anger and sorrow, who do not hide their strength, energy, determination, and courage, who are worthy of a solitary ascetic, who are simple in their clothes and other possessions, who do not indulge in them, who are afraid of hindering the practice of solitude, who are interested in the truth, who are eager to perform actions, who do not engage in stories of women, food, thieves, kings, countries, or those who have deviated from the right conduct in solitude, who are free from all kinds of strange, incomprehensible, and all kinds of false stories in solitude, who are devoted to the 18,000 precepts as much as possible, who are constantly engaged in the practice of the path of liberation according to the scriptures day and night, who are endowed with many virtues, who remain on the path without any slip-ups, who are holders of unbroken virtuous conduct, who are highly praised, who are highly respected, who are noble and virtuous, who are endowed with the qualities of knowledge, perception, and character, and who are such virtuous Acharyas. The path where such virtuous Acharyas reside is called a 'Gachch'. Sutra-693
O Bhagvant! Does one receive the benefit of residing in the Guru's abode by residing in it? O Gautam! Yes, some ascetics definitely receive the benefit of residing in the Guru's abode by residing in it, and there are some who do not reside in such a path. O Bhagvant! Why is it said that some reside and some do not? O Gautam! One soul is a devotee of the Guru's commands, and another is a rebel against the Guru's commands. The one who abides by the Guru's commands is a devotee of right faith, knowledge, and conduct, and they, O Gautam! are extremely knowledgeable and strive in various ways on the path of liberation. The one who does not follow the Guru's commands, who rebels against the commands, is filled with the four poisons of anger, deceit, pride, and greed. They are filled with the accumulations of attachment, aversion, delusion, and false belief. Those who are deeply immersed in attachment, aversion, delusion, and false belief are like those who cannot be compared, who wander in the terrible ocean of the world. Those who wander in the terrible ocean of the world have to experience birth, old age, and death again and again, and then they have to be reborn in the 84 lakh species again and again.
Muni Diparatnasagar Krit (Mahanishith) Agam Sutra-Hindi Translation
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