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Faiths say and promulgate the following idea. Just as a young man tightly grasps the hand of his young beloved or just as the spokes of a wheel are tightly fixed in the nave of the wheel), in the same way, the manusya loka (human world) is densely filled with human beings to an extent of four to five hundred yojanas from the surface of the earth Bhagavan ! Is their statement true ?
Bhagavāna:-Gautama ! No. Their statement is not quite true I say that Naraka Jivas (Denizens of Hell) are densely filled in the area of four-to-five hundred yojanas and not human beings.
Size of Happiness or Misery * Indrabhùti Gautama:-Bhagavan ! The followers of Other Faiths make this statement-If all the happiness or all the miseries of the entire living population of Rajagriha Nagara were collected to-gether, it cannot be shown by any expert to be of the size of kernel of a berry, or a hair, or of a louse or of a nit (egg of a louse). Bhagavan ! Is there any truth in their statement ?
Bhagavāna:-Gautama' Their statement is not perfectly true. If the mass of happiness or of misery not only of the living beings of Rajagriha Nagara but of the entire Saṁsāra एवामेव जाव चत्तारिपंचजोयणसयाई वहुसमाइन्ने मणुयलाए मणुस्सेहिं, से कहमेयं भंते ! एवं ? गोयमा ! जण्णं ते अण्णउत्थिया जाव मणुस्से हि जे ते एवमासु मिच्छा, अहं पुण गोयमा! एवमातिक्खामि जाव एवामेव चत्तारिं पंचजोयणसयाई बहुसमाइण्णे निरयलोए नेरइएहि ॥ (मूत्र-२०८)॥
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