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भगवती सूत्रम् सः ७
13-15. Six factors which help a soul freed from the karma bondage to attain its goal, i. e., liberation, are non-association, non-attachment, state of existence, exhaustion of bondage, non-ignition and prior exertion.
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19. The word vocchinna (af) in the text should mean 'thin and dormant'. The commentator's meaning as 'dormant' is not adequate. The reason is that in the eleventh through thirteenth guṇasthānas (ascending stages), there is only the iriyapathiki, not sämparäiki, activity. At the twelfth and the thirteenth stages, passions are completely exhausted. Even at the eleventh stage, passions stand tranquilised, and are no longer troublsome.
20. The text notes three factors which make food bad for a monk. They are: when the monk is stupified by the quality of food, when he is dissatisfied and when he adds taste to it. The fourth factor by implication is that it should be pure and prescribed. When it is not, it suffers from a lapse called apramana or substandard. The fifth lapse not noticed here is akarana or without sufficient cause. Some texts have six factors.
22. Here khetta () implies the heat zone, space traversed by the sun.
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23. The word satthātīyassa (a) means food which has been cooked on fire but is currently beyond the touch of fire. The word_satthaparināmiyassa ( सत्यपरिणामियस्स ) means food which has been rendered free from contamination with live objects by the touch of fire. Food is said to be pure in nine respects ( णवकोडीपरिसुद्ध ) when it is not to hurt self, not to hurt others, not to approve violence, not to cook by himself, not to make another cook, not to approve cooking, not to buy himself, not to ask another to buy, and not to approve any purchase whatsoever. As to sixteen lapses called udgama, we have the following:
