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Minimum Duration : (55)
The minimum time of the passions of pride, anger, deceit, greed and trivial birth (with a short life span of 256 Āvalīs) of temporally noncompletioned being and karmic intensity reduction (leaning) is successively a little more and more than the earlier ones respectively. However, the minimum time of the passion of pride is little more than the subtle passioned one under destructional ladder (as per verse 16 above).
The minimum durations of living being under (1) specific destruction of neuter libido after non-fruitional intervalisation (sankramaņa), (2) attenuation, (3) subsided passion, (4) destroyed passion, (5) subsider of passion and (6) destroyer of passion is gradually specifically more and more than their preceding ones.
The minimum durations described earlier (in four verses 15-18) are there without any kinds of obstacles or interruptions like death etc. These minimum durations have been stated with respect to normal succession. The maximum durations stated later should be taken as without reference to succession. (This has been elaborated by H.L. Shastri).
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