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Bhagavai 7:7:150-153
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mind), viz., the five classes of the earth-bodied ...... up to the vegetation-bodied (five types of living beings incapable of undertaking voluntary locomotion); and some mobile beings of the sixth class, which are blind, deluded, immersed in darkness, covered with layers of darkness and veiled with the nets of delusion experience akāmanikaraña—sensation (of pain) due to their ignorance? Yes, Gautama! it is proper to say that those instinctive beings ...... up to
experience akāmanikaraņa—sensation (of pain) due to ignorance. 7.151 atthi nam bhamte! pabhū vi akāmanikaranam vedanam vedemti? hamtā atthi. Is it proper to say, O Lord! that even, in spite of being prabhu (capable of knowing on account of being possessed of mental faculty), the rational beings experience sensation (of pain) due to their ignorance?
Yes, it is proper. 7.152 kahannam bhamte! pabhū vi akāmanikaranam vedanam vedemti?
goyamā! je nam no pabhū viņā padīvenam amdhakāramsi rüvāim păsittae, je nam no pabhū puruo rūvāim anijjhāittā ņam pāsittae, je nam no pabhū maggao rūvāim aṇavayakkhittā nam päsittae, je nam no pabhū pāsao rūvāim anavaloettā nam pāsittae, je nam no pabhū uddham rūvāim anāloettä nam pāsittae, je nam no pabhū ahe rūvāim anāloettā ņam pāsittae, esa nam goyamā! pabhū vi akāmanikaranam vedanam vedeti. How is it, O Lord! that even, inspite of being prabhu (capable of knowing on account of being possessed of mental faculty), the rational beings experience sensation (of pain) due to their ignorance? Gautama! they are not able to see the colours (and shapes) in the darkness without a lamp, to see the colours (and shapes) in the front in the absence of attention, to see the colours (and shapes) situated backside without turning back, to see the colours (and shapes, situated on the sides without turning aside, to see the colours (and shapes) situated above without looking up and to see the colours (and shapes, situated below without looking down. Gautama! such persons even though prabhu experience sensation (of pain) due to ignorance.
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Pakāmanikarana-vedaņā-padam 7.153 atthi ņam bhamte! pabhū vi pakāmanikaranam vedanam vedemti?
hamtā atthi. The Topic of the Sensation due to Mental Faculty
Is it proper to say, O Lord! that even, in spite of being prabhu (capable of
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