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to the first, called sāmāyika, or the second called chedopasthāpaniya stage of conduct, and therefrom, can directly go to the fourth stage of monastic conduct, viz. sūkṣmasamparāya. In such case the aspirant is technically called puvvapadivanno (i.e., one who passed through the Course in the past), but is not established in it at the moment he passes on to the higher stage of the monastic conduct.207
(17) Numerical Strength Relating to Groups and Personnel : The following table gives the maximum and minimum number of practitioners groupwise and personwise in respect of the paḍivajjamāna and puvvapadivanna.208
qualitative difference from those of the first two types of monastic stages being innumerable X innumerable202 times purer.203
The purity of those points is again graded, the highest points being innumerable 204 times purer than the lowest. Such purity is possible also in the first two stages of monastic conduct, because a spiritual aspirant does not necessarily adopt the Purificatory Cooperative Course for higher spiritual development. In such case, his purification is exclusively due to his station in the first two monastic stages. This purity attained through the Purificatory Cooperative Course or directly without such Course, is followed by the stage of the rise of subtle passions only (sūkṣma-samparaya) which lasts for less than a muhurta and is attended with innumerable205 points of samyama (selfcontrol) that are purer successively. This is followed by a single solitary moment of self-control which is infinitely purer being the consummation of purity, called the ideal stages of monastic life (yathākhyāta),206
The practitioner of the Purificatory Cooperative Course may revert
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Practitioners
No. of Groups each of 9.
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Max.
1. Initial Adoption 3
2. Old Practitioners 200
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1800
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8100
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palm to dry,209 and not an infinitesimal instant, because the latter is unsuitable in the context of a monastic course.210 The maximum
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