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Second Chapter. The substances such as jiva etc. are distinguished where this world is of the size of thirty-three and a third crore yojanas, - the opposite of this, the aloka, is the infinite, unobstructed, pure space. The division of this is like a model of 'the revolution of the yuga', the revolution, the turning back of the cycle of time, the ascending and descending, is like a model of this. And the model of the 'four gatis', the states of existence as hell-beings, animals, humans and celestials.
The activities of the ascetics endowed with spiritual powers, the obstacles and the vows, the wanderings, are praised.
The householders and the homeless ones, the elements of the arising, growth and protection of conduct. It fully knows the time of the practice of spiritual discipline.
'Right knowledge' is in the form of scriptural knowledge. It knows in detail. What? The time of the practice of spiritual discipline, the scriptures, the conduct, etc. How? As the elements of the arising, growth and protection of conduct, the causes are explained where. Whose elements are these? Of the householders and the homeless ones, the householders are the lay followers, the homeless ones are the ascetics.
The Dravyānuyoga illuminates the substances, the merit and demerit, and the bondage and liberation. The Dravyānuyoga scripture, in the form of the Tattvārtha Sūtra etc., that itself is the lamp, it expounds in detail. What? It expounds in detail the substances, the jiva and the ajiva, their true nature, and also the merit and demerit, and the bondage and liberation, in all their specifics.