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The twenty-ninth usage [155 1925. The statement of the five-sense transmigratory beings (regarding their concrete and abstract usage) should be known like the Nairāyikas (as stated in sū. 1912-14) / [1625] The statement of the five-sense transmigratory beings (regarding their concrete and abstract usage) should be known like the Nairāyikas (as stated in sū. 1612-14). 1926. The usage of humans (as stated in sū. 1608-10) should be said like the collective (prodhīka) usage / [1626] The usage of humans (as stated in sū. 1608-10) should be said like the collective (prodhīka) usage. 1927. The statement regarding the concrete and abstract usage of the vāṇamantra, jyotiṣka, and vaimānika (as stated in sū. 1612-14) should be known like the Nairāyikas / [1927] The statement regarding the concrete and abstract usage of the vāṇamantra, jyotiṣka, and vaimānika (as stated in sū. 1612-14) should be known like the Nairāyikas. Discussion-Usage: The usage is the employment-business that is done by the soul for the knowledge of the object's delimitation. In reality, usage is the soul's knowledge-form dharma or business. It has two divisions: concrete usage and abstract usage / To grasp the definite object or the special dharma of the object is form. That which is with form is concrete / That is, special-grasping knowledge is called concrete usage. The intention is that when the soul, while employing itself in a conscious or unconscious object, grasps the object with its modifications, then its usage is called concrete usage. From the perspective of time, the usage of the liberated souls remains until the end of the moment, and the usage of the bound souls remains only for a while. The usage in which the aforementioned form is not present is called abstract usage. To delimit the object generally, to know only its existence is abstract usage / Abstract usage is also momentary for the liberated souls. But the time of concrete usage should be known to be many times more than the time of abstract usage. Because it takes more time to be the receiver of the special. The time of abstract usage of the bound souls is only for one moment. From the table given on page 156, the information about concrete and abstract usage in the souls will be easily understood. The description of concrete and abstract usage in the soul etc. 1928. "O venerable one! Is the soul concretely used or abstractly used?" "Yes! It is both concretely used and abstractly used." "By what means, O venerable one?" "Thus it is said: The soul is both concretely used and abstractly used." "Yes! The souls who are used in the liberation-knowledge-prodhīka-mind-kevala-knowledge-knowledge-of-the-modifications are concretely used, and the souls who are used in the eye-perception-non-eye-perception-prodhīka-perception-kevala-perception are abstractly used." "Yes! Thus it is said: The soul is both concretely used and abstractly used." 1. Explanation. Malaya-vṛtti, Abh. Rā. Ko. Bhā. 2, 860-62