If you say there is no rule that the son should not die while the father lives, then let birth and death happen by karma, but still, you have created bonds of affection for increasing your creation, and then you have cut those bonds and caused undue suffering. “What is my offense, since I only give birth and death according to a jīva’s karma? There is no law that while the son lives, the father dies, or that after the father dies, the son should die, since it depends on karma.” Then let birth and death happen by karma, but then what action do you perform? “How can all this be accomplished by insentient karma, without my control?” True, it is accomplished by you. But you have created bonds of affection for increasing your creation, and you cut those bonds. Seeing such misery arising from affection, who will have affection for their children? And without affection of children, how will they survive? You are certainly a fool because of this fault in your creation. Or there is another meaning if the present tense stands for the imperative. “Affection is the cause of happiness and distress. Without affection let the children be born and let them die. Then there will be no happiness and distress.”