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- Commentary. Decrease of impurity or purity from black to grey or from white to pale respectively will be by 6 fold-decrease, and increase of impurity or purity from grey to black or from pale to white will also be by 6 fold increase. The increase and decrease both are (1) infinite part (2) innumerable part, (3) numerable part (4) numerable fold, (5) innumerable fold and (6) infinite fold. The process has been explained in the chapter on knowledge.
Sub-Chapter 7.-Action (Karma). पहिया जे छप्पुरिसा परिभट्ठारगणमझदेसम्मि । फलभरियरुक्खमेगं पेक्खित्ता ते विचिंतति ॥ ५०७॥ पथिका ये षट्पुरुषाः परिभ्रष्टा अरण्यमध्यदेशे । फलभरितवृक्षमेकं दृष्ट्वा ते विचिन्तयन्ति ॥ ५०७ ।। हिम्मूलखंधसाहुवसाहं छित्तुं चिणित्तुं पडिदाई।
खाउं फलाइं इदि जं मणेण वयणं हवे कम्मं ॥ ५०८ ॥ निर्मूलस्कन्धशाखोपशाखं छित्वा चित्वा पतितानि । खादितुं फलानि इति यन्मनसा वचनं भवेत् कर्म ॥ ५०८ ॥
507-508. Six men, travellers, are lost in the central part of a forest. Seeing a fruit-laden tree they (severally) think of eating the fruits, by uprooting (the tree), by cut. ting its trunk, by (cutting) the branches, by cutting the minor branches, by plucking (the fruits), by (picking) the fallen (fruits from the ground). Their speech (which represents the six kinds of activity) in the mind is the (result or) action (of the respective thought-paints).
___ Commentary. The person who wants to uproot the whole tree is actuated by black-thought-paint. The one who keeps the root, but wishes to cut it down from the trunk is of blue-paint. He who wishes to cut the large branches is of grey-thought-paint. The remaining three persons do not want to destroy the generating parts of the tree, but they are indifferent in having their object fulfilled as harmlessly as possible. The person who wants to pick up the fallen fruits
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