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verse of it is rati. Also, arati is indifference to things spiritual, while rati is eagerness for them.
159. The wholesome four are lightness, restricting mundane life, shortening it, getting out of it. The remaining four are unwholesome. They are heaviness, enlongening life, coming again and again, going beyond it.
160. In the lower sphere are the seven hells. Beneath the first hell is the deep-ocean, deep-wind, light-wind, one after the other, and then the sky-gap; and like that beneath all the hells.
161. Ordinarily, anything that sinks, as a stone does, we call heavy; that which goes up like the smoke, we call light; that which has oblique movement like the wind, we call heavy-light; and that which goes not in any direction, we call non-heavy-nonlight. In niscaya naya, nothing is absolutely heavy, as nothing is absolutely light. In vyavahāra naya, only course atoms are heavy, nothing else. All things with four touches and all invisibles are non-heavy-non-light; all with eight touches are heavy-light. Weight is not an absolute term, but relative.
162. Gross, fluid, assimilative and caloric bodies are heavylight; soul and kärman body are non-heavy-non-light, soul because it is invisible, and karman body because it has four touches.
163. For similar reason, the four astikäyas, viz., motion, rest, soul and matter, are non-heavy-non-light. The liberated without body are non-heavy-non-light.
164. Objects, regions and categories have been stated to be similar to matter, when they are fine; but when they are coarse, they are heavy-light. Regions and categories are related to objects, and they are similar to objects.
165. 'Bare possession' of cloth, vessels, etc., is permitted; 'small desire' signifies desire for food and other minimum requirements; 'non-attachment' is to the barest possession ;
