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Verse 30
Non-abstinence is of twelve kinds relating to the six classes of embodied souls or beings and the six senses.1 The sixteen passions and the nine quasi-passions together make up twenty-five passions. There is slight difference between the passions and the quasi-passions.2 But the difference is not meant here. So these are grouped together. Mental activities are four, namely true, false, both true and false, and neither true nor false. Similarly speech-activities also are four. Bodily activities are five. These make up thirteen, also fifteen in the case of pramatta samyata, who attains activity of the supernormal body (āhāraka kāyayoga) and the activity of the supernormal body associated with the gross body (āhāraka miśra kāyayoga).
Negligence is of several kinds. It is with regard to the fivefold regulation of activities, threefold self-control, eight kinds of purity, and ten kinds of moral virtues and so on. The eight kinds of purity are purity in thought, in body, in reverence, in walking, in food accepted, in placing things, in lying down and sitting and in speech. The moral virtues are ten. These are the five causes of bondage whether concurrently or severally. In the case of the misbeliever all the five causes operate. In the case of those in the second, third and fourth stages of spiritual development, the four causes commencing from non-abstinence operate. In the case of beings in the fifth stage of development, non-abstinence-cum-abstinence, negligence, the passions and the activities operate. In the case of the ascetic in the sixth stage of development negligence,
1 Not abstaining from injury to the six types of living beings and not
restraining the six senses including the mind from the objects of their desire - these constitute the twelve kinds of non-abstinence. The six types of living beings are the five kinds of immobile beings, namely
earth, water, fire, air and plants, and the mobile beings. 2 The negative sign in nokaşāya is used in the sense of 'slight'.
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