Shikshasamuccaya 305

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kāma-mithyā-ācāram adhikṛtya + āha | eṣa sa pāpa-kartā tasmāc * chastra-saṅkaṭān muktaḥ katham-apy aṅgāra-karṣūr laṅghayitvā karmaṇā bhrāmitaḥ pradeśam anyaṃ prapadyate | vitatha-darśanaṃ nāma tatra karma-kṛtāṃ striyaṃ paśyati yā tena pūrvaṃ naṣṭa-smṛtinā dṛṣṭā | dṛṣṭvā ca + an-ādi-kāla-abhyasto rāga-agnir utpadyate | sa tena dhāvati yena tā striyaḥ | tāś ca + ayo-mayyo nāryaḥ karma-kṛtāḥ | tābhir asau gṛhyate | gṛhītvā ca + oṣṭhāt prabhṛti tathā bhujyate yathā + asya sarṣapa-phala-mātra-pramāṇam api na + avaśiṣṭaṃ | tasmiñ śarīre bhavati | punar api saṃbhavati | punar api bhujyate | sa kaṭukāṃ kharāṃ vedanām anubhavaṃs tasmād rāga-agner na nivartate | yena tā striyas tena bhūyaḥ saḥ saṃdhāvati | na ca + asya tat-pīḍā tathā bādhate yathā rāga-agniḥ | atha tā striyo bhūyo vajra-maya-ayo-maya-prajvalita-gātrās taṃ manuṣyam ādāya jvālā-mālā-ākula-sarva-śarīrās taṃ nārakeyaṃ siktā-muṣṭi-vad bhindanti | punar api saṃbhavati + iti pūrva-vat || pe ||

With reference to sexual misconduct, he says: That evil-doer, having somehow escaped from that thicket of weapons and crossed the ditches of coals, driven around by his karma, arrives in another region. In [a region] named False Perception, he sees a woman created by his karma whom he had previously seen when his mindfulness was lost. Upon seeing her, the fire of passion cultivated since beginningless time flares up. He runs in the direction of those women. And those women are made of iron, created by his karma. He is seized by them; and having seized him, he is eaten, starting from his lips, in such a way that not even a quantity the size of a mustard seed remains of that body of his. He is reborn once more; once more he is eaten. Experiencing bitter and harsh sensation, he does not turn back from that fire of passion; he runs again toward those women. Nor does that torment afflict him as much as the fire of passion does. Then those women, their bodies blazing with diamond-like iron, seize that man; with their whole bodies covered in wreaths of flames, they shatter that hell-being like a handful of sand. He is reborn once more, as before, and so forth.