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Bhagavai 5:9:237-247
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5.243 pudhavikkäiyä jäva teimdiyä jahā neraiyä.
The earth bodied beings ......... upto three-sensed beings are like the infernals.
5.244 caurimdiyānam bhamte! kim ujjoe? amdhayāre?
goyamā! ujjoe vi, amdhayāre vi. Do the four-sensed beings, O Lord! have light? or have darkness? Gautama! they have light as well as darkness. 5.245 se kenatthenam?
goyamā! caurimdiyānam, subhāsubhāa ya poggalā suhhāsubhe ya poggalapariņāme, se tenatthenam. For, what reason it is said so? Gautama! the four-sensed beings have both auspicious and inauspicious material entities and also auspicious and inauspicious transformation of material entities.
It is for this reason. 5.246 evam jāva maņussānam.
In the same way ...... up to humans. 5.247 vāṇamamtara-joisa-vemāniyā jahā asurakumärā.
The Forest gods, Luminious gods and Empyrean gods are to be described like those of the Asurakumāras.
Bhāsya 1. Sūtras 237-247
Both light and darkness are special transformations of material entities. The auspicious transformation of material entities is bright. So it is called light. The inauspicious transformation of material entities is gloomy. So it is darkness. In the day, on account of the contact with the sun rays there is auspicious transformation of material entities.' So there is light in the day. In the night, there is absence of the rays of the sun and other luminous objects, so the transformation of material entities at that time is inauspicious.
In the present dialogue, light and darkness have been explained from many points of view. As there is inauspicious transformation of material entities in the hells, there is always darkness there. According to the Vrtti, there is absence of bright objects like the rays of the sun that cause auspicious transformation of the material entities.
It is mentioned in the Pannavanā that there is absence of the orbiting luminous bodies such as sun, planet, moon, star etc., in the infernal earths.
The mansions and vimāmas (abodes) of gods are always bright on account of
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