Passage 4

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In plain words

Whatever he does, whatever he sees, whatever he says, whatever he resolves, it is for the good of the world, so pāpa does not touch this jñānī either. These pāpas hound only the man in the middle level, only the man who has the delusion of the body, only the man who has let his mind run loose. The world is only for this man who lets his mind roam free as it pleases. As long as one is in the world, pleasure and pain, gain and loss cannot be avoided. So man is one bound up with pāpas. So when he weighs the lasting against the passing and acts with discriminating knowledge on what is good and what is bad, what is fit to be done and what is not, these pāpas do not touch him at all.

Next, śāsana. In the world there are courts of justice of various kinds, and judges. These seats of Dharma are places that make people suffer here: those who have done wrong and those who have turned to violence and cruel karmas. They impose punishments of various kinds on the man who has entered into injustice, wrongdoing, bad conduct and Asatya. These courts were set up only for men, not for cattle, birds, beasts and the like. A small example. Cattle or pigs get in, lay waste the crop and do a great deal of damage. They do not order the cattle and the pigs, on the ground that they have destroyed the crop, to pay for the crop themselves. If they must punish at all, they give the compensation and the punishment to the man who is master of these cattle, beasts and pigs; they have no power at all to make these animals pay or punish them. So it is most necessary to recognise that this śāsana, these courts, are for men alone, not for cattle, birds and the like. These things happen in every home in daily life. Dogs get into houses, break all the pots, eat the food in them and come out free. Does any court order these dogs to pay for those pots, to pay for the food? But if that same man lays waste a crop or breaks pots, the judges give judgement that he must pay for it. In short, only when man recognises that all śāsanas were made for men alone, not for cattle, birds and the like, can he experience these processes in the right way.