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Ga. 123] Exposition of the special activities that subdue the delusion of conduct (charitra-moha). [256. Then, it is infinitely less than the lowest category of the series of gradations, and still less than the special category.] 257. As in the second moment, so in the rest of the moments.
258. The lowest intensity of passion is very little. The intensity of the second is infinitely great. The intensity of the third is infinitely greater. In this way, it goes on increasing infinitely up to the last intensity. 259. This is the division into three parts of the intensity-making period. 260. When the divisions of the intensity-making period have been passed, the bondage of the passion of greed is for less than a muhurta. 261. The duration-bondage of the three ghātiyā karmas is for one day. 262. Up to the end of the intensity-making period, the duration-bondage of the name, gotra and vedanīya karmas is for countless thousands of years. 263. At the end of the intensity-making period, the duration-bondage of the passion of greed is for less than a muhurta. 264. The duration-bondage of the jñānāvaraṇa, darśanāvaraṇa and antarāya karmas is for slightly less than one ahorātra. 265. The duration-bondage of the name, gotra and vedanīya karmas is for slightly less than two years. 266. In the three āvalikās that are one moment less than the intensity-making period, the two middle passions do not pass over into the passion of greed, but get pacified in their own place.
267. In the āvalī and pratyāvalī that remain in the intensity-making period, the āgāla and pratyāgāla are cut off. 268. In one moment of the pratyāvalī, the lowest intensity-emanation of the passion of greed takes place. 269. In the same way, the two āvalikās that are one moment less [than the intensity-making period] are infinitely greater in that category.