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Tatha Sutra
is that
Syllabus includes the words of the shell, the flute, etc., 6. “Sangharsh”: the word resulting from the struggle of the stick, etc.
The mutual embrace form binds are of two kinds: practical and existential. The bond of living beings and bodies is practical because it is effort-dependent; the electric, cloud, rainbow, etc., form a non-effort-dependent existential bond. - There are two distinctions regarding subtlety and grossness: the ultimate and the conditional. What cannot decrease due to the conditional distinction of both subtlety and grossness is ultimate, and what can decrease is conditional. The subtlety of atoms and the grossness of the universe is ultimate because, in relation to another substance, the grossness of the atoms and the subtlety of the universe cannot decrease. The subtlety and grossness of the middle-skanda like kachchhankar, etc., is conditional; as is the subtlety of amber and the grossness of cotton. Since amber is smaller than cotton, it is subtle, and the latter is gross in relation to the former, but in the regard of the cotton, amber is also gross, and the cotton is subtle compared to the banana. In this way, as conditionality allows both grossness and subtlety to exist in the same substance, the ultimate subtlety and grossness cannot coexist in one substance.
The form of the location is of two types: permanent and impermanent. The form which can be compared with some shape is permanent; and that which cannot be compared with any shape is impermanent.