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(SUTTAS 550
550. Then what is ajjhina as substance-potential, with scriptural knowledge ? Ajjhiņa as substance-potential, with scriptural knowledge is concerned with a person by whom ajjhina treatise has been studied, retained (in mind), controlled, measured, controlled perfectly,... to be spoken of just as in the case of ajahayana as substance-potential (vide sutta No. 539) up to... This is aiihina as substance-potential, with scriptural knowledge.
551. Then what is ajjhiņa as substance-potential, without scriptural knowledge ? Ajjhina as substance-potential, without scriptural knowledge, is stated to be threefold, viz.
(i) ajjhiņa as substance-potential (namely) body of the
knower; (ii) ajjhīņa as substance-potential (namely) body of the
competent person;
(ii) ajjhina as substance potential (namely) other than the
body of the knower and the body of the competent
person 552. Then what is ajjhina as substance-potential (namely) body of the knower ? Ajjhina as substance-potential (nainely) body of the knower is such a body of the knower who knows the purview of the meaning of 'ajjhina' treatise-the body which is devoid (of consciou and has reached the state of unconsciousness), has seceded (from breath), has been made separate (from breath), and has left nourishment,... (these are) to be spoken of just as in the case of ajjha yaņa as substance-potential (vide sutta No. 541) up to... This is ajjhina as substance-potential (namely) body of the knower.
553. Then what is ajjhina as substance-potential (namely) body of the competent person? Ajjhiņa as substance-potential (namely) body of the competent person is (the body of ) a soul which has come out of womb through birth, ...(these are to be spoken of just as in the case of ajihayana as substance-potential (vide sutta No. 542) up to... This is ajjhina as substance-potential (namely) body of the competent person.
554. Then what is ajjhiņa as substance-potential (namely) other than the body of the knower and the body of the competent person? Ajjhina as substance-potential (namely) other than the body of the knower and the body of the competent person is a line (passing) through whole space (both loka and aloka)."
1. Such line is ajjhiņa (Skt. aksina), because it is not exhausted at any time even if its space-points are taken out one by one continuously.
--Commentary, p. 233 B.
