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Chapter 8 - Verse 6-14
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Those which have been described in eight different ways through the medium path are renowned by the name of the distinctions of the north nature. There are 97 such distinctions, which are presented in sequence before the main nature. [5] The count and name designation of the distinctions of the north nature:
Twenty-five, twenty-eight, and thirty-two distinctions with a total of 97 in order:
1. From the category of sense and others.
2. The eye and the non-eye, of the wholly liberated, the sleeping and non-sleeping, the peaked and the non-peaked, the luring and the desired, and others.
3. The knowable, with both knowledge and delusion.
4. The qualities of seeing, behavior, deluding, etc. With the distinction of three, twenty-two, and nine, the valid and invalid ones, both of them being a delusion and true, along with unending and consequent practical assertions and their rejection.
5. Choices of variations, such as anger, pride, deceit, laughter, desire, grief, fear, and contempt on both sides, relating to women and men.
6. The beings of hell and the various gods, or the human and divine.
7. The moving class of beings, indicating shapes, the creation, bondage, assembly, establishments, and stresses, along with touch, taste, smell, color, etc.
8. Pertaining to the heavy as well as the light, the donations and others.