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## Gatha 162
## Kayamargna/267
The word 'Paaran' means exhalation and the word 'Apaan' means inhalation. The intake of 'Anapan' i.e. the intake of food and breath is common to all living beings.
**Doubt:** To which living beings is it common?
**Resolution:** It is common to ordinary living beings. This is stated in the Gatha Sutra by the phrase 'Saahaaran Jivaanam'.
**Doubt:** Who are ordinary living beings?
**Resolution:** Living beings residing in one body are ordinary.
Living beings residing in different bodies do not have commonality with living beings residing in different bodies, because they lack the commonality arising from the dwelling of one body. This means that if the first-born Nigoda living beings become sufficient through body sufficiency, sensory sufficiency, food sufficiency, and exhalation-inhalation sufficiency by the most inferior sufficient time, then the Nigoda living beings with weak yoga born in the same body also fulfill these sufficiencies by the same time, otherwise the commonality of food intake etc. cannot be formed. If the first-born living beings obtain all four sufficiencies by a long time, then the living beings born later in the same body fulfill those sufficiencies by the same time. This is the meaning of the above statement.
**Doubt:** Why is it not said that body sufficiency and sensory sufficiency are common to all?
**Resolution:** No, because the use of the words 'Pahaar' and 'Paanapaan' in the Gatha Sutra is all-encompassing, therefore their inclusion in these is also implied.
**Saahaaranagi Jesin Paahahassas-Kay-Paani.**
**Te Saahaaran-Jiva Taanant-Ppamaaraaganam ||126||** - Those countless living beings whose food, breath, body, and lifespan are common are ordinary-bodied living beings. The lifespan of countless ordinary living beings born in one time is the same, i.e. it is not less or more.
**Eyass Anuggahanam Baharan Saahaaranaanameyass.**
**Eyass Jam Baharavam Samaasado Tam Pi Hovi Eyass ||123||** - The benefit of one living being is of many ordinary living beings and also of this one. And the benefit of many living beings together is also of this desired living being.
1. Dhaval Pu. 14 p. 226.
2. Dhaval Pu. 14 p. 227.
3. Dhaval Pu. 14 p. 228.
4. Swaamikaartikeyaamupreksha.
5. Dhaval Pu. 14 p. 228.