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## Chapter 30: Description of the Six Substances and Five Astikayas
**Hindi Commentary, Verse 6: Meaning**
(Those who are transformed into states of the three times) Those who are transformed into states of the past, present, and future, and (are eternal) are eternal, (they are the Astikayas) these are the Astikayas, (combined with the changing mark) combined with the changing mark (time), they attain suppression (i.e., they are the six substances).
**Commentary:**
Here, the five Astikayas and time are described as substances.
Substances are fundamentally the basis of co-existing qualities and sequentially existing states. Therefore, the five Astikayas and the changing mark time are substances because they are transformed into states of the past, present, and future.
They are not impermanent because they are transformed into states of the past, present, and future, as they do not abandon their own definite form in these states. Therefore, they are eternal.
Here, time is called the "changing mark" because it is the cause of the change in the Pudgala, etc., and its states are known through the change in the Pudgala, etc.
**Sanskrit Commentary, Verse 6:**
Now, the author describes time and the five Astikayas as substances.
"They are the Astikayas, transformed into states of the three times, and eternal." These five Astikayas, although transformed into states of the three times, are momentary, impermanent, and perishable according to the conventional view. However, they are eternal according to the substantial view. Thus, they are both eternal and impermanent according to the substantial and conventional views. They attain the "state of substance" (i.e., they are recognized as substances).
Again, what are they like? "Combined with the changing mark." The change itself, the transformation of the Jiva, Pudgala, etc., is the mark, the sign, the cause, the indicator, the indication, of which it is. This is the changing mark, the time atom, the substantial time. They are combined with it.
Now, it should be said that they are combined with the substantial time. Why is it said that they are combined with the changing mark? It is not so. In the context of the five Astikayas, time is not the main thing. It is known as the mark of the action, as the form of the new and old states of the objects. Therefore, it is called the changing mark.
Here, among the six substances, the pure Jiva Astikaya, which is free from all thoughts and doubts arising from the perception of objects, such as food, fear, sex, and possession, and is filled with the three jewels of faith, knowledge, and conduct, is the object of attainment. It is attainable through the knowledge of self-awareness, which is the form of supreme bliss, innate, and prior, arising from the state of non-dualistic samadhi. This is the meaning.
Thus, the verse describes the five Astikayas, along with time, as substances.