Uttarajjhayana 128.1.10_6

128.1.10_6

tao āuparikkhīṇe | cuyā dehā vihiṃsagā /
āsurīyaṃ disaṃ bālā | gacchanti avasā tamaṃ ||10||

Then the sinner who has been killing living beings, at the end of his life falls from his state, and against his will he goes to the world of the Asuras, to the dark place. (10)
As a man for the sake of one Kâkinî (risks and) loses a thousand (Kârshâpanas), or as the king lost his kingdom (and life) by eating a mango-fruit which he was strictly forbidden (by his physician): (11)
Even so are human pleasures compared with the pleasures of the gods: divine life and pleasures surpass (the former) a thousand times and more. (12)
Those endowed with excellent knowledge live many nayutas of years; so great a loss suffer the fools in a life of less than a hundred years! (13)
Three merchants set out on their travels, each with his capital; one of them gained there much, the second returned with his capital, and the third merchant came home after having lost his capital. This parable is taken from common life; learn (to apply it) to the Law. (14, 15)
The capital is human life, the gain is heaven; through the loss of that capital man must be born as a denizen of hell or a brute animal. (16)
These are the two courses open to the sinner; they consist in misery, as corporal punishment, &c.; for the slave to his lusts has forfeited human life and divine life. (17)
Having once forfeited them, he will have to endure these two states of misery; it will be difficult for him to attain an upward course for a long time to come. (18)