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GOMMATASARA.
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उपशमसूक्ष्माहारे वैगूर्विकमिश्रनरापर्याप्ते । सासादनसम्यक्त्वे मिश्रे सान्तरका मार्गणा भष्ट ॥ १४३ ॥ सत्तदिणा छम्मासा वासपुधत्तं च वारसमुहुत्ता । पल्लासंखं तिण्हं वरमवरं एगसमओ दु ॥ १४४ ॥ जुम्मं ॥ सप्तदिनानि षण्मासा वर्षपृथक्त्वं च द्वादशमुहूर्ताः। पल्यासंख्यं त्रयाणां वरमवरमेकसमवस्तु ॥ १४४ ॥ युग्मम्
143-144 There are eight with-interval-soul-quests (Sántara márganá). In case of) 1. Subsidential (Right belief, upashama samyaktva), 2. Slightest-(Delusion control, súkshma sámparáya samyama), 3. Assimilative(body.vibratory-activity, Aháraka-Káva-Yoga), 4. Mixed (Assimilative-body vibratory activity, Aharaka Mishra - Yoga), 5. Fluid-mixed (body-vibratory-activity, vaikriyika Mishra Yoga), 6. Absolutely non-developable human soul (Labdhyaparyáptaka Manushya), 7. Downfall belief (Sásádana samyaktva) and 8. Mixed (Belief-mishra-Samyaktva). The maximum (interval for each of these, respectively) is (1) Seven days, (2) Six months, (4) Seven years, (4) (Eight years), (5) Twelve Muhúrtas, and for (6) (7) and (8) the part of a Palya ; but the minimum (time) is one instant (samaya, for each of these).
Commentary. As a rule souls exist in each of the various soul-quests at every instant (samaya). The only exceptions to this general rule are enumerated, with their maximum and minimum intervals, in the above two gathas. For example, there may sometimes, be a total absence in the whole universe, of any soul in the Subsidential Rightbelief i. e., in the twelfth soul quest. But this absence can last at the maximum for seven days, or at the minimum for one instant, except in the case of souls in the partial-vow, and imperfect-vow (fifth and sixth) spiritual stages, when according to the following gáthá, the interval may extend to fourteen, and fifteen days, respectively.
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