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YON-ASSIMILATION OF MATTER DURING TRAYSIT
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commences motion with the maximum of three bends and not more. For there can be no straight movement, as there is no straight line in succession to that Nişkuta abode. There is no need for the fourth bend, as there is no such place of birth roquiring four bends. Ca is intended for indicating both types of motions, i. e. with and without bends.
The time limit for movement with bend has been mentioned. How much time is required for movement without any bend?
एकसमयाऽविग्रहा Ekasamayā avigrahā
(29) 29. Movement without a bend (takes) one instant.
That movement for which it takes one instant is ekasamayā. That movement in which there is no bend is avigrahā. The soul and matter impelled by movement takes only one instant even to reach the end of the universe, if there be no impediment.
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In the beginningless series of karmic bondage, the soul takes in karmas owing to wrong faith etc. Does the soul take in matter in its passage from one birth to another ?
एकं द्वौ त्रीवाऽनाहारकः Ekar dvau trinvā anāhārakaḥ
(30) 30. For one, two or three instants (the soul remains) nonassimilative.
Instant is supplied from the previous sutra. This particle vā indicates alternative meaning. The alternative is to be taken as intended. For one, two, or three instants the souli does not take in molecules of matter.
Ahāra is the taking in of matter fit for the three kinds of bodies and the six kinds of completion. As this does not
1 The three kinds of bodies are the gross, physical body of human beings, animals and the vegetable kingdom, the transformable body of celestial and infernal beings and the projectable body, emanating from a saint. (See II, 36, 46, 47, 49)
The six kinds of completion relate to assimilation of molecules of matter, the formation of the body, the senses, the respiratory organ, the organ of speech and the mind.
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