Bhagavana Mahavira

Author(s): Chauthmal Maharaj
Publisher: Jainoday Pustak Prakashan Samiti Ratlam

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The Six Aras
hatred even to think of, Their actions are, one to all, strangely retrograde, horrible, despicable and heart-rending. They do the most hateful deeds with such freedom and license as if they have no master over head to look into their mischief. There is nothing which the people of this Ara might not do for fulfilling their own selfish ends. The consequences, too, are equally bitter. On account of their having committed various kinds of sins these poor, ruined, wretched creatures die a dog's death after suffering a most miserable and pitiably rotten plight of their own. To be brief, the people in this Ara, live a life of extreme sin and misery from birth to death.