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liberated in a particular life is said to be without a beginning but with an end (anādi sānta).
6. A non-female non-impotent has the physical frame of a woman, a man' and an eunuch without corresponding sensibilities. Such a being ex sts at a gunasthana (step to higher life) called anibrtti-bādara-samparāyādi. He binds karma enshrouding knowledge.
7. For this note, it is convenient to combine Sūtra 33 and 34. The considerations are twofold, viz., one about right and wrong outlook and the other about the states of being with and without mind. If one with right outlook is free from attachment, he does not bind karma enshrouding knowledge. Similarly if one who has a mind is free from attachment, he does not bind karma enshrouding knowledge. The rest of the species sometimes bind karma enshrouding knowledge, or sometimes they bind and sometimes they do not.
As to beings with right-wrong outlook, it has been stated that they bind karma enshrouding knowledge, but they do not bind karma giving a life-span in that state.
One not-with-mind not-without-mind may be of three types, viz., sayogi (with activity), ayogi (without activity) and siddha. Of these, sayogi binds vedanīya karma, but not ayogi and siddha. But none of them binds karma ensbrouding knowledge nor karma giving a life-span.
8. These have organs of senses and mind, but they do not have eyes.
9. Acarima are the liberated beings and also those who are never to be liberated. Contrasted to them, those who are to be liberated are infinite times more.
10. Sapradesa is one with space-points. When there are no space-points, it is apradeśa. The soul is without a beginning, and it is eternal. So it is sapradeśa. If a thing
