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## Gommatasara Karmakanda - 144
**Meaning:** The strengths (competitors) in the auspicious natures of the *aghatiya* karmas are like jaggery, sugar candy, sugar (misri), and nectar. They have increasing sweetness in that order. The sections of the inauspicious natures are like neem, bitter gourd, poison, and halahala, with increasing bitterness in that order.
**Special Meaning:** The participants in the auspicious natures of the *aghatiya* karmas, i.e., the strengths, are like jaggery, sugar candy, sugar (misri), and nectar. Just as jaggery, sugar candy, sugar (misri), and nectar are increasingly sweet due to their pleasantness, similarly, the auspicious natures in the form of jaggery-section, sugar candy-section, sugar-section, and nectar-section are increasingly pleasant due to worldly happiness. The participants in the inauspicious natures are like neem, bitter gourd, poison, and halahala. Just as neem, bitter gourd, poison, and halahala are increasingly bitter in comparison to each other, similarly, the inauspicious natures in the form of neem-section, bitter gourd-section, poison-section, and halahala-section are increasingly painful.
Here, there are 42 auspicious natures and 37 inauspicious natures. The natures of *varna* etc. are counted as both auspicious and inauspicious. The auspicious natures are transformed into three forms: jaggery, sugar candy, sugar (misri), and nectar; or jaggery, sugar candy, and sugar; or jaggery and sugar candy. The inauspicious natures are transformed into three forms: neem, bitter gourd, poison, and halahala; or neem, bitter gourd, and poison; or neem and bitter gourd.
**Thus ends the section on *anubhaga* (participation).**
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**Section on *Pradeshabandha* (Binding to Regions)**
**The section on *Pradeshabandha* is explained in 33 verses:**
**Verse 185:**
**Meaning:** This living being binds to all regions with its own cause, the *pudgala* substance which is situated in a single field, dense, and capable of becoming karma, and which is either beginningless or beginningful or both.
**Special Meaning:** The connection of the *pudgala* substance in the form of karma with the regions of the self is called *Pradeshabandha*. Here, the subtle *nigoda* living being's dense *angula* (finger-breadth) should be understood as a single, minute field.