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disappears He thinks that the relatives of previous lives are so many that it is not possible to decide whom should he remember and whom should he assist since in his visual knowledge, he has memory of many past lives. In case he remembers friends and relatives of all those previous lives, he will unnecessarily be worried about them and he shall have to discard divine pleasures and enjoyments. So the string of love and attachment (with relatives and friends of previous lives) becomes loose or breaks and he forgets them. Many times the new born god does not even remember the promise he had made in earlier life-span and therefore, he is not able to keep it.
(3) The third reason is that newly born god in celestial abode becomes so much engrossed in the pleasures of that place, in the divine dance and music and suchlike that he is not able to leave it in the middle. He thinks that he shall go immediately when the drama concludes. But even one scene takes a pretty long period. But human-beings go into many successions during that period. When the recently born gods come to see those whom they had promised in earlier life, or they come to assist those whom they so desire to help, those friends had already completed their life-span and had gone to the next world where they are passing through their life-span.
(4) The fourth reason is the foul smell of the human world. The human world is a collection of gross molecules. The foul smell of bones, blood, flesh, human waste and urine and others is so ferocious that it affects the environment upto many yojans. Such a foul smell is intolerable for gods living in heaven. They want to come here but feeling worried due to such a bad smell, they change their plan of coming to the human world.
In this aphorism, it is mentioned that the foul smell of human world goes upwards upto 400 to 500 yojans in space. But in Agam, it is mentioned that the molecules of smell can be subject of sense of smell only upto nine yojans and not more. It is worth consideration how this description can be in line with the description in Agam. The molecules that come from a distance of more than nine, their smell becomes extremely low and such they cannot affect the sense-organs of smell.
The commentator Acharya Malaygiri, while explaining this complexity has mentioned as under—"Although the principle is as above mentioned but those molecules that are having extreme smell, they meet those molecules who are at a distance of nine yojans. They transfer their smell to those molecules. Similarly molecules to whom smell has been
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