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## Chapter 7: The Seven Decades
**The Perfect Being**
Here, as with the 24 natural states of existence, there are five categories.
If, in the case of a perfect being, the body is perfected, and either the state of suffering (ātapa) or the state of joy (udyota) arises, then by adding either of these to the 25 natural states of existence, we get 26 natural states of existence. However, the state of suffering does not arise in the ordinary, so in this case, there are two categories with respect to fame and infamy. But the state of joy arises in both the ordinary and the universal, so in this case, there are four categories with respect to the alternatives of ordinary and universal, and fame and infamy. Thus, there are a total of 5 + 2 + 4 = 11 categories for the 26 natural states of existence.
**The Perfect Being with Breath**
Next, with respect to a perfect being with perfected breath and exhalation, by adding either the state of suffering or the state of joy to the 26 natural states of existence, we get 27 natural states of existence. Here too, as before, there are two categories with suffering and four categories with joy, for a total of six categories.
**Total Categories**
Adding the categories of these five states of existence, the total number of categories for the perfect being with one sense is 26.
**The Perfect Being with One Sense**
There are five states of existence for the perfect being with one sense: 2680 and 78 natural states. In this state of existence, the 26 categories of the five states of existence mentioned above are as follows: two categories for the 21 natural states of existence, four categories for the 24 natural states of existence except for the one category of the vacuous, badara, airy body, and one category each for the 25th and 26th natural states of existence with respect to fame and infamy.