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THE LAST AND THE FIRST TYPES OF BODIES
तदादीनि भाज्यानि युगपदेकस्मिन्नाचतुर्भ्यः
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Tadadini bhajyani yugapadekasminnācaturbhyaḥ 43. Commencing with these, up to four bodies can be had simultaneously by a single soul.
The word 'these' refers to the luminous and the karmic bodies which are under consideration. Commencing with these means those, which have the luminous and the karmic as the beginning. Bhajyāni means can be attained. Up to what? Up to four. Simultaneously by one soul. Some souls have two, namely the luminous and the karmic bodies. Some others have three, namely the gross, the luminous and the karmic odies, or the transformable, the luminous and the karmic bodies. Yet others have four, namely the gross, the translocation (projectable), the luminous and the karmic bodies.
Other details pertaining to these are mentioned. निरुपभोगमन्त्यम् Nirupabhogamantyam
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44. The last is not the means of enjoyment.
That which comes at the end is the last. What is it? The karmic body. The receiving of sound etc. through the channel of the senses is enjoyment. The absence of it is without enjoyment (experience). There is no perception of sound etc. during transit (from one birth to another), as there is only the psychical sense and not the physical sense. Now the luminous body also is devoid of enjoyment. Why, then, is the last alone mentioned in the text? The luminous body is not the cause of activity too. Hence the question of enjoyment does not arise in this case.
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These bodies originate in the modes of birth described already. Do these bodies originate without distinction? Or is there any distinction?
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Garbhasammurcchanajamādyam
45. The first is of uterine birth and spontaneous genera
tion.
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