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## Chapter 26: Description of Nature-Transition and Nature-Initiation
**Verse 20:** This verse describes the nature-transition.
**Verse 21:** This verse explains the word division of the verse.
**Verse 22:** This means:
**Verse 23:** The meaning of the phrase "five types of nature-initiation" is: there are five types of nature-initiation - sequential order, name, evidence, statement, and meaning.
**Verse 24:** The meaning of the phrase "four types of deposition" is: from the six types of deposition mentioned earlier, we should consider only four types of deposition in nature - substance, field, time, and state, excluding name and establishment.
**Verse 25:** The meaning of the phrase "nature-initiation" is: here, nature should be considered.
**Verse 26:** The meaning of the phrase "eight types of nature-exit" is: there are eight types of nature-exit - nature-transition, nature-non-transition, nature-location-transition, nature-location-non-transition, nature-acceptance, nature-non-acceptance, nature-location-acceptance, and nature-location-non-acceptance.
**Special Meaning:** Nature-exit is called the removal of special meaning. Nature-transition is intended here, so eight types of nature-exit are mentioned in the third verse in relation to it. Their meaning in brief is as follows:
1. The change from the nature of false belief to the nature of right belief or the nature of right belief is called nature-transition.
2. Remaining in the false belief of false belief, remaining in the right belief of right belief, is called nature-non-transition.
3. The change of the false belief with the existence of twenty-eight natures of the karma of delusion to the location of twenty-seven natures is called nature-location-transition.
4. The false belief with the existence of twenty-eight natures remaining in the location of twenty-eight natures is called nature-location-non-transition.
5. The finding of false belief in false belief is called nature-acceptance.
6. The non-transition of false belief to the nature of right belief or right belief, or the non-transition of the delusion of perception to the delusion of conduct and the delusion of conduct to the delusion of perception, is called nature-non-acceptance.
7. The finding of false belief in the location of the group of twenty-two natures is called nature-location-acceptance.
8. The non-finding of false belief in the location of sixteen natures is called nature-location-non-acceptance.
Thus, there are eight types of nature-exit.
**Churnisutra:** These three verses are related to nature-transition. Now, the word division of these verses is done. It is as follows: "Nature-initiation is of five types," the meaning of this first phrase of the first verse is: there are five types of nature-initiation related to nature-transition - sequential order, name, evidence, statement, and meaning. "Deposition is of four types," the meaning of this second phrase is: from the six types of deposition mentioned earlier, we should consider only four types of deposition in nature - substance, field, time, and state, excluding name and establishment. "Nature-initiation is nature," the meaning of this third phrase of the verse is: here, nature should be considered. "Nature-exit is of eight types," the meaning of this last phrase of the verse is: there are eight types of nature-exit - (1) nature-transition, (2) nature-non-transition, (3) nature-location-transition, (4) nature-location-non-transition, (5) nature-acceptance, (6) nature-non-acceptance, (7) nature-location-acceptance, and (8) nature-location-non-acceptance.
**Note:** In the copper-plate copies, the commentary of the next sutras is written after the commentary of this sutra, while the commentary of this sutra starts from here: "The meaning of the phrase 'five types of nature-initiation' is the explanation of the first phrase of the first verse."
(See page 962)