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Guṇasthāna / 57
Time, binding with infinite-infinite guṇas, binds the two-positional part of the excellent natures like asāta etc., with infinite-infinite guṇas every time, spreading the number-thousand position-binding, and by these four konkas, it transcends the downward movement and enters the previous of either of the two categories, where from the first time itself, there are previous-previous results, that is the previous-making place.
The meaning of previous-making
'Even in this guṇasthāna, the jīvas with two different times,
When they attain the earth, they become previous-unmeritorious results ||5||
With two different times, the jīvas always become similar,
With one-time-different karmas, they become similar or dissimilar ||52||
Gāthārtha - In the successive times of this guṇasthāna, the results of the jīvas are dissimilar, i.e., not of the same form. The pure results that occur in the upper time, those results are not obtained in the lower previous time, therefore, every time there are previous-previous results ||51|| In the entire time of previous-making, the results of the jīvas situated in different times are not similar, but the results of those situated in the same time are both similar and dissimilar. ||52||
Viśeṣārtha - In the purified and restrained who have entered the previous-making, there are both calming and diminishing types of calming from the general. The word karana means result, and those that did not happen in the previous times are previous results. This guṇasthāna is of countless measure, with results increasing in order from the beginning to every time, in comparison to various jīvas. In this guṇasthāna, the results of the jīvas of the desired time are previous to those of other time-bound jīvas. The results of jīvas of different times are dissimilar, i.e., unique, from the results of jīvas of the desired time. Thus, the previous results that occur in every time are called previous-making. In previous-making, the downward movement is prohibited by the previous specialisation, because where the results of the upper time-bound jīvas are both similar and dissimilar with the results of the lower time-bound jīvas, there is no previousness found in the results that occur in such downward movement.
Śaṅkā - The word pūrva is indicative of the meaning 'never obtained before', not of the meaning dissimilar, therefore, the meaning of the word apūrva here cannot be dissimilar or viṣa.
Samādhana - It is not so, because pūrva and samāna are both synonymous, therefore, the meaning of both pūrva and asaman should also be understood as one.
Śaṅkā - Which jīvas enter the previous-form results?
Samādhana - The jīvas who enter the previous-making results are the sātiśaya-praparamatta-samyata-jīvas 6.pu. 1 p. 103 gā. 117: prā. paṁ saṁ. śra. 1 gā. 18 || 2. bha.pu. 1. 183 gā. 116: prāpaṁ saṁ. 1 17 ||