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[213 605 - The object of pain should be known through these doors: cold, substance, body, state, suffering, assumption, approach, sleep, and wakefulness. ||1||
606 - Venerable sir! Do the hell beings experience cold pain, hot pain, or both cold and hot pain?
Gautama! The hell beings experience cold pain, thus the word pain should be said.
Discussion - The object of pain should be known through these doors: cold, etc. The word 'c' read before the word 'cold' in the original text does not indicate the opposite pains. Accordingly, there are three types of pain - cold pain, hot pain, and both cold and hot pain. The hell beings of the lower earths experience only cold pain, and the hell beings of the upper earths experience only hot pain. The living beings of the remaining three realms experience cold pain, hot pain, and both cold and hot pain.
The word 'substance' indicates the field, time, and feeling along with the word substance. That is, there are four types of pain - substance pain - which is experienced in relation to the substance of matter, field pain - which is experienced in relation to the field of hell, etc., time pain - which is experienced in relation to the life-time of hell, etc., and is experienced for a fixed period of time. The pain experienced from the arising of karmic pain is called feeling pain. From hell beings to the celestial beings of the Vaimānika realm, all living beings experience all four types of pain.
With respect to the door of 'body', pain is said to be of three types - bodily, mental, and both bodily and mental. Some pain is only bodily, some is only mental, and some is related to both. All sentient five-sense beings of the four realms experience all three types of pain. But beings from one-sense to non-sentient five-sense beings experience only bodily pain.
With respect to the door of 'state', pain is of three types - state pain, non-state pain, and both state and non-state pain. All worldly beings experience all three types of pain.
The word 'suffering' indicates three types of pain - pleasant pain, unpleasant pain, and both pleasant and unpleasant pain. All beings of the four realms experience all three types of pain.
Question - What is the difference between the pain mentioned in the previous door and the pleasant-unpleasant pain mentioned in this door?
Answer - State-non-state pains occur when state-non-state karmic pain arises. But...