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humans and sub-humans of the work-region, residential, peripatetic, and stellars, and the heavenly beings of Saudharma and íshána, dying with the middle parts of these four paints) are born as (developable gross) earth, water, and vegetable-bodied souls. किएहतियाणं मज्झिमअंसमुदा तेउवाउवियलेसु। सुरणिरया सगलेस्सहिं णरतिरियं जांति सगजोग्गं ॥५२८॥ कृष्णत्रयाणां मध्यमांशमृता तेजोवायुविकलेषु । सुरनिरयाः स्वकलेश्याभिःनरतियञ्चं यान्ति स्वकयोग्यम् ५२८
528. (The wrong-believing humans and sub-humans of the work-region), dying with the middle parts of the three black, (blue and grey are born) as fire, air, and incomplete sensed (i. e. 2,3, and 4-sensed Vikalatraya, beings (or as irrational 5-sensed and the common (Sádhárana) vegetables). (And) the hellish and the (remaining) celestial beings go to the human and sub-human (conditions of existence) corresponding to the particular thought-paints (with which they die).
Commentary, A soul is born always in that condition of existence for which he has bound to himself the age Karma in the eight decliningtimes in which the age-Karma can be bound in life, but the death point is also important, as it seriously affects the future condition of the soul. If no age Karma is bound in the 8 declining-times, then the duration of age-Karma and the condition of existence, both, are determined within the Antar-muhúrta which precedes death by an innumerable part of a wink or Ávalí called Asankshepaddha. But if the age Karma has been bound in one of the previous eight declining-times (Apakarsha-Kála), the condition of existence (Gati) will remain the same, but the soul will go to a higher or lower part of it, according to the character and degree of the thought-paint at the time of death.
Sub-chapter VIII Possession (Swami). काऊ काऊ काऊ णीला णीला य णीलकिण्हा य । किराहा य परमकिएहा लेस्सा पढमादिपुढवीणं ॥ ५२६ ॥
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