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1. There is, indeed, not a single region on the extensive stage of this world in which living beings have not danced as actors of various kinds.
2-4. People distressed in the ocean of existence with an envelope of water in the form of four kinds of existences, do acquire birth in related Arya-Ksétra, ( the country inhabited by the Āryans, ) like tortoises plunging into water and coming out of it a number of times even after a long time Having acquired it by the subsidence of that Karma, they, wandering in different places of birth, and overpowered with evil Karmas, do not acquire ger Manusyatvam, (existence as a human being ), which is the absolute instrumental cause of accomplishing up Dharma, ( Religious Duty ), Artha, ( Wealth ), and FITH Kāma, (Desires of worldly pleasures ).
5. Having obtained it, and having become distressed by old age, asthma, cough, itching, and other diseases, they become far-removed from an effort of accomplishing religious duties.
6. Having obtained a healthy state also, and having become distressed by sentiments of wrath and misery, they pass their life in a bewildered desire of filling their bellies.
7. Having obtained even wealth, and becoming eager of doing numerous trades with the object of increasing much wealth, out of avarice they do not get time even to take their meals at the appropriate hour.
8. Even if they are contented, they hear the doctrines of the Omniscients, but they do not become enlightened, because their intellect has been rendered unclean by the spread of the mire of feara Mithyātva, (False Belief).
9. Even If an enlightenment in the Teachings of the Omniscients has been produced as a consequence of the maturity of an evil Karma, they do not meet with preceptors who are the receptacles of entire virtuous qualities.
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