Disclaimer: This translation does not guarantee complete accuracy, please confirm with the original page text.
[386] [ Prajñāpanā Sūtra 472. Just as it has been said regarding the Earth-bodied categories (Pṛthvīkāyika) with inferior, superior, and medium intellect, hearing, and knowledge, and those who are blind and see, so also (from the non-bodied) up to the plant-bodied beings (the statement regarding categories should be made). _ Discussion: In the seven sūtras (from sū-466 to 472) presenting the form of the categories regarding the five stationary beings (sthāvara) beginning with the Earth-bodied, which are endowed with inferior, medium, and superior immersion (pravagaha), etc., the statement regarding the categories of the five one-sensed beings (ekendriya) beginning with the Earth-bodied, which are endowed with inferior, medium, and superior immersion, up to blind and seeing, has been made. _ The Earth-bodied, etc., one-sensed beings with inferior, etc., immersion, are equal to each other in terms of the quantity of their categories, in comparison to the two Earth-bodied, etc., one-sensed beings with inferior and superior immersion! But the two Earth-bodied, etc., one-sensed beings with medium immersion are mutually four-place-fallen (catur-sthāna-patita) in their own place, in comparison to each other. _ That is, one Earth-bodied, etc., one-sensed being with medium immersion is four-place-fallen from another Earth-bodied, etc., one-sensed being with medium immersion, in terms of immersion, because, generally, even when there is medium immersion, it is of various types. It does not have a single place, like inferior and superior immersion. The reason for this is that the birth of the Earth-bodied, etc., is called their own place (sv-sthāna). In this type of own place, an immeasurable number of years of lifespan is possible, so it is either immeasurable-partless, countable-partless, or countable-multiple-less, or immeasurable-multiple-less, or it is immeasurable-part-more, countable-part-more, or countable-multiple-more, or immeasurable-multiple-more. In this way, it is four-place-fallen. In the same way, the inferiority and superiority of the Earth-bodied, etc., endowed with position, color, etc., intellect, hearing, and knowledge, and blind and seeing, are four-place-fallen in comparison to immersion. ' The Earth-bodied, etc., with inferior, etc., position, etc., are equal to each other in terms of the quantity of their categories, in comparison to the position of the categories, but they are not equal in comparison to the categories of immersion, color, etc., and intellect, hearing, and knowledge, and blind and seeing; because the position of the Earth-bodied, etc., is of countable years, this has been said earlier in the context of the statement regarding the collective Earth-bodied beings. Therefore, if the Earth-bodied, etc., with inferior, etc., immersion, etc., are inferior to each other, then they are immeasurable-partless, countable-partless, or countable-multiple-less; if they are superior, then they are immeasurable-part-more, countable-part-more, or countable-multiple-more. It is not immeasurable-multiple-less or more, according to the aforementioned reasoning. Why are only two ignorance and blind and seeing presented in the aforementioned Earth-bodied, etc.? - All the Earth-bodied, etc., are of false vision (mithyā-dṛṣṭi). They do not have right vision (samyak-tva), and a right-visioned being (samyak-dṛṣṭi) is not born in the Earth-bodied, etc. _ Therefore, only two ignorance are found in them. For this reason, here 1. (a) Prajñāpanā. M. Vṛtti, page 193, (b) Prajñāpanā. Prameyabodhinī Ṭīkā, Bha. 2, pp. 675-678 2. (a) Prajñāpanā. M. Vṛtti, page 193, (b) Prajñāpanā. Prameyabodhinī Ṭīkā, Bha. 2, pp. 679-680