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favours and start living separately. When the chance has come
to serve them, he forgets his duty. When he was unmarried,
he was happy and relaxed because he had such caring parents
and thus did not feel like exercising religious activities. Now,
after he gets married, his beloved wife becomes the cause of
his happiness and relaxation which makes him forget his duty
towards his parents. Thus happiness and relaxation in worldly
benefits makes him forget his religious duties and other acts
of charity and humanity. Hence, we can conclude that it is
wise to not become happy and tension free in worldly benefits
and miss out on our duties.

Ilachikumar felt happy and relaxed in meeting an actress and
thus, left the prestige of a respectful family, a flourishing
business and became a dancer in her group. Konik felt relaxed
in acquiring the vast empire of Magadh and imprisoned his
father and whipped him 50 times each day. Also, he went
to fight against his maternal uncle king Cheda. Merchant
Mamman felt happy in hoarding abundant wealth and thus,
binded karmas leading him to seventh hell. Lord Mahavira’s

soul as Triprushtha Vasudev felt relaxed in enjoying the
luxuries and comforts of life which led him also to the
dungeons of seventh hell. Do you understand the dreadfulness
of seventh hell ? The sorrows and miseries of the first hell are
so terrible. This misery keeps increasing in the consecutive
second, third hell and soon. Now imagine it’s intensity in
the seventh hell! And tolerating such horrors, not for some
50-100-1000 years, but for an enormous time period of 33
sagaropama*. (One Palyopamais equivalent to innumerable
years. When it passes 330 crore x crore times, it results in
33 Sagaropama) So much pain for such a long time!

* Sagaropama / * Palyomana – Unit of measurement of time

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