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CHAPTER 6
6. Minimum Duration
The minimum time or duration of (1) Indeterminate consciousness (Conation).
Apprehensive knowledge with respect to the senses of sight, hearing, smell and taste. Mental, vocal and bodily activity Apprehension of the sense of touch
Perceptual judgement
Speculation (7) Vocable knowledge, and (8) Respiratory function is gradually a little more than the earlier ones respectively. However, it is the least numerable Āvalis (Av. a smaller time unit) for the indeterminate knowledge or consciousness. [H.L. Shastri states 'many' in place of 'numerable').
The minimum duration time of the three-(1-2) Absolute conation and omniscience of the omniscient in the present birth and (3) the white aureole of the passion-associated being is the same and equal to the specifically little more than the minimum time of respiration. Further, the minimum time of pure meditation on the nature of (1-2) multiple verbal or scriptural and single transition. (3) falling subsider from tenth stage and (4) ascending subsider from the same stage and (5) subtle passioned one at destructional ladder is successively somewhat specifically more and more respectively than their preceding ones.
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