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Notes
: (277)
may be of numerable or innumerable conscious engagements. The passions here are repeated with reference to past time also. Further, the verse also indirectly poses an enquiry of the number of conscious engagements of other passions while under intended passion. The second inquiry refers to a single birth-state as a minimum and two birth states as a maximum.
The variforms of applied consciousness have two varieties: (1) variform of temporally applied consciousness in passions and (2) variform of modal or volitional applied consciousness. The term 'how many' refers to their quantity or measure in general. This verse refers to both kinds of variform. The term 'variform' here means 'kinds' or 'alternatives'.
66.
There may be two kinds of meanings of this verse based on the traditional and non-traditional instructions. In the first case, the intensity and the passion are non-different, while they are different in the latter case. The term intensity, here means fruitional-station. The time here refers to a Samaya. The meaning in text above refers to the traditional instructions
67.
This verse refers to eight disquisition doors related with the Jivas consciously engaged in passions. The first part refers to the knowledge of (1) numerical measure of the reality of Jīva. It also refers to the (2) enunciation of existence. The (3-4) knowledge of spatial and contact is also included here as they are dependent on the realities. The second part of the verse refers to (5) temporal knowledge, which could also include the knowledge of (6) interval as they are collated with each other. The third part of the verse represents the (7) section of
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