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15. From the sum subtract Uttara-dhana: divide by the number of terms; the result will be the first term
sen(n-1) d.
n 16. The last term=first term +(the number of terms--1) the common difference i. e., l-atin 1)d.
The sum also = the middle term multiplied by number of terms.
+
8an
16
16 = 162.
Let us apply the above rules to the Lower Thought Activity.
Suppose the total number of thoughts in the Lower Thought Activity (Adhah Karana to be 3072 (s); and suppose number of instants to be 16 (n).
Suppose common difference to be 4 (d) Then the Sankhyát is -4X16X 16 = 3. S-(n 11d 3072-8-15 ~ 4_2592
n :: the series is 162, 166, 170, 174, 178, 182, 186, 190, 194, 198, 202, 206, 210, 214, 218,
For details see Sanskrit commentary on gátha 49.
At all times in one instant (Samaya), the soul can have only one thought, pure or mixed. In (Adhah Karana,) a soul who enters this stage can acquire the same degree of thought-activity as that of the souls who have preceded it. The thought-activity overlaps and therefore it is called (Anukrishti). In the Apúrva-Karana, the soul who enters later can never reach the thought activity acquired by the souls who entered before. But if several souls enter at the same instant, their progress onwards may be equal or unequal. Some of them may attain purer thought-activity than the others ; but none of them can ever be overtaken by any soul who enters afterwards. In (Anivritti Karana,) even those souls who enter at the same instant advance uniformly. In this stage, the soul brings about either the subsidence or destruction of all the 21 sub-classes of passions, right-conduct-deluđing karma (Charitra Moha), except the 4 error-feeding passions, which were already transformed into these 21. But the soul has the very slightest form of greed which is the characteristic, which it has in the 10th stage. All but-passion less (Sukshma Sámparáya.).
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