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Chapters on Passions
162.
This verse indicates inquisitiveness about four points regarding the process of intensity reduction: (1) Kinds of the process of intensity reduction (2) Kinds of intensity-reduction for each of the four
passions. Nature of karmic operations during the intensity
reduction process. (4) Characteristics of the intensity reduction.
As per JSK 2, p.140, there are fourteen kinds of intensity reductions, out of which three are important here: (1) composite (2) component and (3) differential (Antara).
163.
The intensity reduction occurs after the period of supervariform formation. Each composite intensity reduction has infinite component intensity reductions. The term IR here should be taken with reference to context.
165.
The intensity reduction here refers to the leaning or minimising the intensity of gleaming passions. The minimum intensity reduction of gleaming greed is the least. The second, third and other higher intensity reductions are gradually infinite times more than the preceding ones. Further, it is lesser by infinite times with respect to earlier or unprecedented supervariforms.
As the gleaming passion is reduced with respect to its intensity, hence it is called krsti (intensity reduction or leaning of Karmas). The commentary deals with the relative quantities of the heap of mass point in different composite intensity reductions in
170.
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