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means shelter of deceitfulness. 'Intending the practise at a particular period' means with the intention of adopting spiritual life at later periods of life - middle or the last part of life. 'Accumulating fortune' means engaged in hoarding money. Such people produce different forms of life, that is, they are born as different classes of beings such as the one-sensed and the like. Comprehension of this truth is the second support or step to
enlightenment. 4.17 ihamegasim tattha-tattha-samthavo bhavati. ahovavaie phase
padisamve-dayamti. Various people are familiar with various doctrines (on account of their deluded views.) They suffer from various
pains in the lower realms of transmigration. Bhāoyam Sutra 17
'Familiarity' means acquaintance, inclination or conjunction. Some people have acquaintance with views that are contaminated by perversity, passions and sensual objects. On that account, they freely indulge in sinful conduct. And as a result they are born in various forms of life. During their trasmigration, they suffer
from miseries of lower realms existence, such as hells. 4.18 cittham kūrehim kammehim, cittham pariciţthati. acittham
kūrehim kammehim, ņo cittham paricitthati. Indulgence in intensely cruel acts leads one to the realm of intensely painful suffering. On the contrary, one who desists from intensely cruel acts does not transmigrate to realms of intensely painful suffering.
Bhajyam Sutra 18
The discipline asks: 'O Lord! are the souls, suffering from the miseries of the lower worlds, of the same kind of feelings?' (Reply) ‘No, this is not so' 'Why?' (Reply) ‘Because the person who indulges in cruel acts is born in inauspicious places like hell and is striken with immeasurable pain. But the person who is not so deeply involved in cruel acts is inflicted with only light pain though born in the inauspicious place like hell’.
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