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Bhagavai 7:2:36-43 are such that their intense fruition does not permit the advent of the virtue of renunciation. Some human beings and also some five-sensed subhumans, on account of their spiritually benignant psychic propensity, weaken the fruition of the apratyākhyāna kaşayas (passions which are the cause of non-renunciation, so there rises in them the power of renunciation as mūlagunas (fundamental virtues) or gunavratas (subsidiary virtues). Infernals are deeply and constantly engrossed in anguish, while the gods experience immense happiness, being deeply immersed in the material pleasures. So they can not develop the capacity to weaken the force of passions which are the cause of non-renunciation. The souls who are devoid of mind also can not even think of such capacity so they are inherently non-renouncers. Relative Numerical Strength
Abhayadevasūri notes that among the ascetics who are complete renouncers, those who are possessed of the gunavratas (subsidiary virtues) are necessarily possessed of the mülagunas (fundamental virtues). But those possessed of the mūlagunas (fundamental virtues) may or may not be possessed of gunavratas (subsidiary virtues). Here only those ascetics are to be understood who are not possessed of gunavratas (subsidiary virtues). The majority of the monks are possessed of the guņavratas (subsidiary virtues) so the number of the monks possessed of gunavratas (subsidiary virtues) is numerable times of the ascetics possessed of only the mülagunas (fundamental virtues). Among the partial renouncer lay followers, the observers of the gunavratas (subsidiary virtues) are greater in number than those that practise the mūlagunas (fundamental virtues). The number of the lay followers who observe only the gunavratas (subsidiary virtues) is innumerable times higher than those partial renouncer lay followers who follow the mūlagunas (fundamental virtues).'
There are two types of human beings-garbhaja, i.e., the souls born of womb and sammürcchima, i.e., the souls born of agglutination of material particles. The garbhaja human beings are numerable, but those born of agglutination (sammūrcchima) are innumerable. It is only with reference to the latter that the number of non-renouncer human beings has been stated to be innumerable.
1. Bha. Vị. 7.40-iha ca sarvavirateșu ye uttaragunavantaste'vasyam mūlagunavantah, mūlaguņavantastu syāduttaragunavantah syāttadvikalāḥ, ya eva ca tadvikalāsta eveha mūlagunavanto grāhyāḥ, te cetarebhyah stokā eva, bahutarayatīnām daśavidhapratyäkhyānayuktatvät, to'pi ca mūlagunebhyah sankhyātagunā eva näsankhyātaguņāh, sarvayatīnāmapi sankhyātatvät, deśaviratesu punarmülagunavadbhyo bhinnā apyuttaragunino labhyante, te ca madhumämsädiviciträbhi grahavasādbahutarā bhavantītikṛtvā deśaviratottaraguņavato'dhiktyottaragunavatām mūlagunavadbhayo'sankhyātagunatvam bhavati.
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7.43 jīvā nam bhamte! kim savvamūlagunapaccakkhānī? desamülagunapacca
kkhāni? apaccakkhāni? goyamā! jīvā savvamülagunapaccakkhāni vi, desamülagunapaccakkhani vi, apaccakkhāni vi.
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