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## Āgama Sūtra 39, Cheda Sūtra-5, 'Mahānīśītha'
**Study/Purpose/Sūtra Number Note:** In our Āgama Sūtra-39 Mahānīśītha, by mistake, 910 has been written instead of 1000 in the sequence. Sūtra-1000-1003
O Gautama! From the Vaṇamantra Deva, the one who fell, he came in the form of a donkey in the house of a king in the animal realm. There, due to the fault of always associating with horses, a disease arose in his testicles, and worms were born in them. O Gautama! The testicles were suffering from pain due to not getting food from being eaten by worms, and he licked the earth. At that time, a sage was returning from afar. Seeing that, he remembered his own caste. Remembering his past life, he began to blame and criticize his soul. And then he undertook fasting. Sūtra-1004-1010
O Gautama! The one who was eaten by crows and dogs, remembering the Arhant with pure devotion, gave up his body, obtained the time, and became a Sāmānika Deva named Mahāghosa of that Devendra. There, he enjoyed divine powers well and fell. From there, he was born as a prostitute. He did not reveal the deceit he had done, so from there, he died and wandered in many low, insignificant, and end-of-life families, and after a long time, he was born as the son of Shiva-Indra named Divyajan in the city of Mathura. He attained enlightenment, embraced the life of a Shraman, and attained Nirvana. O Gautama! I have told you the example of the deceitful one. Those who contradict in their minds the words spoken by any omniscient Bhagavant, not because of the pain of the objects, but also desire the objects out of curiosity. And then, without requesting their Guru, they perform atonement. They are the ones who wander in the cycle of births.
Therefore, one who knows should not teach the wrong path to even a single principle speaker. Sūtra-1011
If anyone recognizes the meaning of a word spoken by a Sarvaśruta or its meaning, and speaks it according to the path, then he does not bind sin. Believing this, one should not even mentally deviate from the right path. Thus, I tell you what I have heard from the mouth of Bhagavant. Sūtra-1012-1015
O Bhagavant! If someone performs atonement by taking excessive penance after doing a wrong deed, is it not better to not do the wrong deed in the first place? O Gautama! After doing a wrong deed, I will purify myself by performing atonement. In that way, it is not appropriate to even mentally hold on to those words. Consider anyone who believes in such words or acts according to them to be a carrier of all kinds of corruption. O Gautama! Perhaps even if he performs such a difficult atonement as if it were equal to the doubt of life, just as a butterfly enters the flame of a lamp and dies, so too, by breaking the command, one earns many deaths and worldly existence. Sūtra-1016-1019
O Bhagavant! What atonement will be given to a human who hides any strength, vigor, heroism, or prowess within himself and performs penance? O Gautama! Such a deceitful person may receive this atonement. Because knowing the strength of the enemy, even though he has his own strength, he has expected from him, the one who hides his strength, vigor, courage, and heroism, becomes a deceitful, wicked, and twice-atoned person. He suffers in the hellish state of the low caste, goes to the animal realm, and then wanders in the four realms. Sūtra-1020-1024
O Bhagavant! Can a great sin be consumed by performing penance? Because without experiencing the karma, it cannot be removed. So what is the benefit of performing atonement there? O Gautama! Sins accumulated over many crores of years...