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## The Third Multi-Statement Difficulty:
**The Fifteenth Door of Speech: The Fewness of Beings in Relation to Speech**
**264.** "O Bhagavan! Among these beings who are speakers and non-speakers, which are fewer, which are more, which are equal, or which are superior?"
**264.** "Gautama! 1. The fewest are the speaker beings, 2. (and) the non-speakers are infinitely more numerous."
**The Fifteenth (Speech) Door** // 15 //
**Discussion:** The Fifteenth Door of Speech: The Fewness of Beings in Relation to Speech - This sutra discusses the relative fewness of speaker and non-speaker beings.
**Explanation of Speaker and Non-Speaker:** Beings who possess the ability to speak are called speakers, and those who lack this ability are called non-speakers.
**Why are non-speakers infinitely more numerous than speakers?** Speaker beings range from those with two senses to those with five senses, while non-speakers include one-sensed beings, among whom the plant-bodied beings alone are infinite. Therefore, non-speakers are said to be infinitely more numerous than speakers.
**The Sixteenth Door of Pariita: The Fewness of Beings in Relation to Pariita, etc.**
**265.** "O Bhagavan! Among these beings who are Pariita, A-parita, and No-parita-No-a-parita, which are fewer, which are more, which are equal, or which are superior?"
**265.** "Gautama! 1. The fewest are the Pariita beings, 2. (and) the No-parita-No-a-parita beings are infinitely more numerous, 3. (and) the A-parita beings are infinitely more numerous than them."
**The Sixteenth (Pariita) Door** // 16 //
**Discussion:** The Sixteenth Door of Pariita: The Fewness of Beings in Relation to Pariita, etc. - This sutra (265) discusses the relative abundance and scarcity of Pariita, A-parita, and No-parita-No-a-parita beings.
**Explanation of Pariita, etc.:** The general meaning of Pariita is "limited" or "finite." In this context, two types of Pariita are described: Bhava-parita and Kaya-parita.
**Bhava-parita** refers to those who are limited in their existence, while **Kaya-parita** refers to those who are limited in their body.