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Book Eight
Notes
Q. 1. Matter consciously transformed into body, etc., through the activity of a living being is called prayoga-parinata pudgala. Matter spontaneously transformed, is called visrasăparinata pudgala. A third transformation is a mixture of the two, misrasa-pariṇata pudgala. The third form is attained when the first is in suspense and the second operates as in the case of (the disintegration of) a dead body, or when the natural process of gross body formation is supplemented by food intake which is a conscious process.
Q. 2-23 Nine sections are given to matter consciously transformed. Section one deals with matter consciously transformed in the case of one to five-organ beings. Section two deals with their attainments. Section three deals with body form. Section four deals with their organs of senses. Section five deals with body form and sense organs together. Section six deals with colour, smell, taste, touch and shape. Section seven brings together body form and colour, smell, taste, touch and shape. Section eight brings together the organs of senses and colour, smell, taste, touch and shape.
Q. 27-32. The word yoga means the activity of the body mind and speech. The tranquilisation or exhaustion of obstruction to energy (virya) causing a throb of matter constituting the mind, speech and body is also called yoga or prayoga. For the operation of matter, mind, speech and body provide the necessary media, of which mind takes four forms, speech four forms and body seven forms in all fifteen forms. Four forms of activity of the mind are those based on truth (satya-manah-yrga), untruth (asatyamanah-yoga), truth-un
