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(266) The Gidhistisamuchaya fully and completely (as a whole) comprehends the infinite and indivisible nature of the fundamental reality (vastutattva). This means that each substance (dravya) contains infinite attributes (dharmas), the fundamental reality is anekanta (non-absolutistic), yet the substance is one, indivisible, and non-dual. This is how the fundamental reality is understood here. Therefore, this doctrine also has the quality of subtlety (saumyapana). As the Syadvadi (proponent of the doctrine of conditional predication) says, "The attributes (dharmas) of a thing are infinite in number; it is the abode of the universal and the particular, which is the transformation (parinam) of the substance (dravya)." - Swami Sujata. "Here, the doctrine of Syadvada is the sole sovereign; whoever bears the seal of Syadvada, him the king accepts as his own." - (Dr. Bhagavandas) Thus, due to the vastness of the ocean of existence (bhavasamudra), the diversity of karmas, and the complete comprehension of the fundamental reality, this doctrine is said to have the quality of subtlety (saumyapana). However, this subtlety is not yet manifest in this perspective, nor does it exist in the perspectives below it, because there is an absence of the distinction of principles (tattvabhedabhava) in them. "Because in these first four perspectives, the unperceivable and perceivable state (avedyasamvedyapada) is extremely powerful; and the other, which is the perceivable state, is like the activity of aquatic creatures in the shadow of a bird." 67. The meaning is that in these first four perspectives, the unperceivable and perceivable state (avedyasamvedyapada) is extremely powerful; and the other, which is the perceivable state, is like the activity of aquatic creatures in the shadow of a bird. As mentioned earlier, the subtle understanding (saumya bodha) does not exist in these perspectives of Mitra, etc., because here the unperceivable state (aghsamvedyapada) is powerful and intense, and from this arises the activity, the perceivable state, whose characteristic will be described later. This is because in these perspectives of Mitra, etc., the intensity (tathaulbana) is such that the nature of the unperceivable state predominates, and the other, the perceivable state, which is like the activity of aquatic creatures in the shadow of a bird, is not relevant in this perspective.