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**Field of Pain, Field of Karma, and the Doctrine of Degrees**
[4, 2, 5, 6]
Whether it is excellent or not excellent, whether it is inferior or not inferior. ||4||
Its excellent field of pain is found in the great fish that receives a fatal blow in a field of only eight rajus. Except for this fish, it is not excellent. Its inferior field of pain is found in the subtle nigoda jiva that has three simultaneous food-bodies and three simultaneous derivative states. Except for this, it is not inferior.
Thus, of the seven karmas. ||5||
Just as the degrees of the field of pain for the knowledge-obscuring karma have been considered here, so also should the degrees of the field of pain for the remaining seven karmas be considered. ||5||
Ownership is of two kinds: inferior and excellent. ||6||
Generally, there are four kinds of inferiority, based on the difference in the establishment of names, etc. Among these, there are two kinds of material inferiority: material inferiority due to influx and material inferiority not due to influx. Among these, there are three kinds of material inferiority not due to influx, based on the difference in the knowing body, etc. Among these, there are two kinds of material inferiority not due to influx, other than that which is specific to the individual: inferiority due to influx and inferiority due to command. Among these, there are four kinds of inferiority due to influx, based on the difference in material, field, time, and state. In terms of material, the inferior is one atom. In terms of field, the inferior is of two kinds: inferior field of karma and inferior field not of karma. Among these, the inferior immersion of the subtle nigoda jiva should be known as the inferior field of karma, and one region of space should be known as the inferior field not of karma. In terms of time, the inferior is considered to be one moment. The indivisible part of the smoothness, etc., that resides in the atom should be known as the inferior state.
In terms of the above material, field, etc., there are also four kinds of inferiority due to command. In terms of material, inferiority due to command is like this: a two-regioned skandha in relation to a three-regioned skandha, and a three-regioned skandha in relation to a four-regioned skandha, etc. In terms of field, a material that has immersed in two regions of space is considered inferior to a material that has immersed in three regions of space. In the same way, one should imagine this inferiority due to command in the field in relation to the remaining regions. In terms of time, a material that has undergone two moments of transformation, etc., is inferior to a material that has undergone three moments of transformation, etc. In the same way, in terms of state, a material that has undergone transformation from two primary qualities (parts), etc., should be known as inferior to a material that has undergone transformation from three primary qualities (parts), etc. In all of these, the case of inferiority due to influx is found.
_Just as the nature of these divisions and subdivisions of inferiority has been stated here, so also should one know the nature of these divisions and subdivisions of excellence, as far as possible._