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(minimum) white; (medium) white; and maximum white. And the non-developable three residential (peripatetic and stellar have only) the bad-thought-paints (black, blue and grey).
Commentary. It should be noted that the heavenly celestials have the same thought-paint in their non-developable and developable conditions.
Sub-Chapter IX Cause (Sádhana). वण्णोदयसंपादिदसरीरवएणो दुदव्वदो लेस्सा। मोहुदयखओवसमोवसमखयजजीवफंदणंभावो॥ ५३६ ॥ वर्णोदयसंपादितशरीरवर्णस्तु द्रव्यतो लेश्या । मोहोदयक्षयोपशमोपशमक्षयजजीवस्पन्दो भावः ॥ ५३६ ॥
536. The colour of the body produced by the operation of the colour (sub-class of the body making Karma) is matter-paint (Dravya Leshyá). The vibration of the soul produced by the operation (in the first four stages), by destructive-subsidence in the 5th, 6th and 7th stages), by subsidence in the 8th, 9th, 10th and 11th, stages of subsidential ladder (Upashama Shrení), and by destruction (in 8th, 9th, 10th, 12th, and 13th) of deluding-Karma (Moha) is thought.(paint) (Bháva Leshyá).
Commentary Here vibratory activity would seem to be the same as thoughtpaint. Yoga and Leshya, i.e., Vibration and thought-paint are really not two things but two aspects of the same thing, with the distinction that in one the vibratory activity alone is considered and in the other it is considered as mixed with and coloured by the passions. The vibratory activity is the same. It is never without the tint or taint of passion of some kind or other which is found only in the first 10 stages. The passion-coloured vibration is the thought-paint in these 10 stages. In the next three there is no passion, but there is
ation, which results in white thought-paint, the purest and highest kind of thought-paint. Here although there is no passion, thought-paint is said to exist, because its basis, the vibration still continues, although there is no passion to taint it with any colour.
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