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This is information about the types of four-sense beings.
Due to the destruction and pacification of the coverings of the touch, taste, smell, and sight senses, and the arising of the covering of the hearing sense and the arising of the covering of the mind, these beings (like flies, etc.) who know touch, taste, smell, and color are four-sense beings without a mind. ||116||
**Commentary:**
Now, the different types of four-sense beings are shown. The purpose is that flies, mosquitoes, bees, bumblebees, moths, etc. know touch, taste, smell, and color, and therefore they are four-sense beings. For example, those who are averse to the drinking of the nectar of happiness that arises from the knowledge of non-attachment, self-awareness, and the feeling of non-attachment, and who are attached to the experiences of happiness in the objects of the senses of touch, taste, smell, and sight, etc., bind the karma called "four-sense being." Due to the ripening of this karma, and due to the destruction and pacification of the coverings of the senses of touch, taste, smell, and sight, and the arising of the covering of the hearing sense and the covering of the mind, they become four-sense beings without a mind. This is the meaning. ||166||
Thus, the explanation of the beings with impaired senses is completed in three verses, mainly.
**Hindi Commentary:**
**Uttanika:** Now, the different types of four-sense beings are explained.
**General Meaning with Anvaya:** (Uins) Flies [Masay] mosquitoes, [Makkhi] flies, [Madhukari] bees, [Bhamra] bumblebees, [Patangamadiya] moths, etc. [Rupan] know color, [Rasan] taste, [Cha] and [Gandhan] smell, [Pun] and [Phasan] touch, [Ananti] know, [Te Vi] they are four-sense beings.
**Specific Meaning:** Those beings who have a false view, are averse to the drinking of the nectar of happiness that arises from the knowledge of non-attachment, self-awareness, and the feeling of non-attachment, and who are attached to the experiences of happiness in the objects of the senses of touch, taste, smell, and sight, etc., bind the karma called "four-sense being." Due to the ripening of this karma, and due to the destruction and pacification of the coverings of the senses of touch, taste, smell, and sight, and the arising of the covering of the hearing sense and the covering of the mind, they become four-sense beings without a mind. This is the meaning. ||116||
In this way, the explanation of the beings with impaired senses is completed in three verses, mainly.
**Information about the types of five-sense beings:**
Suras, humans, narakas, and animals, who know color, taste, touch, smell, and sound, who live in water, on land, and in the air, are strong five-sense beings. ||117||