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between the most intense black and the most mild white, namely from black to blue 6 places decrease.
blue to grey 6 » white to pink 6 ,, pink to yellow 6
These 24+2 said above are the 26 parts of thought-paints. Out of these, 8 parts are for age-bondage only. In the chapter on passions we have given a diagram to Gatha 295. It shows that the force of passions is classified into four kinds (1) Intenser like stone (2) intense like earth, (3) mild like dust, (4) milder like water.
In the first stone-kind, there are 2 divisions, in the last or most intense of black no age Karma is bound, but in the next division. which is a kind of medium intense black, hellish age only is bound. In the second earth-kind, there are medium conditions of all the six thought-paints; bondage of all the four kinds of age Karma is possible there. In the third dust-kind, also there are 6 thoughtpaints of medium mild kind, where also all the four age Karmas • are bound: but in places where black thought paint is absent, there is such a mild degree of five other thought-paints, that only celestial age-Karma is bound. Its last portions do not bind any age Karma. The fourth, water kind is the mildest and cannot bind any age-Karma.
Thus it will be seen that out of 24 medium places of thoughtpaints there are only 8 such special medium kinds of thought-paints. which only have the capacity of binding age-Karmas.
Rule for bondage of age Karma in humans and sub-humans of work-region (Karma bhúmi) for future incarnation is, that when two-third of their operative age-Karma is exhausted, the first occasion, where a soul may bind age-Karma appears for one antar-mu: húrta. Then again after the expiry of two-third of the remaining age-Karma, the second occasion for bondage of age-Karma appears for an antar-muhúrta. Thus after expiry of every two-third part of the remaining age, six more occasions for bondage of age-karma will in succession be presented to the soul. If a soul cannot have the required kind of medium thought-paint in any of these 8 occasions which are called Apakarsha-Kála or declining-times, he must bind it in the last antar-muhúrta of his life.
It should be noted that a soul will bind only one of the four age Karmas. He cannot bind more than one. He will gain rebirth in the same condition of existence corresponding to the particular ageKarma bound for future life. It should also be noted that duration
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