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GOMMATASARA.
the fluild or the external physical body. Sometimes it has 4, for one antar-muhúrta, when the Áháraka body emanates from a saint in doubt. And in transmigration, i. e., its passage from one to another condition of existence, the soul has only 2 bodies --i.e., the Karmic and the electric.
All these bodies are in form like the external body occupied by the soul; they are all co-extensive. Except that the Áháraka body is human in form but in size of a length equal to the forearm of the saint himself, i. e., from the elbow to the tip of his middle finger.
The fluid body also, although it is changeable at will, is yet one to begin with, and its identity persists throughout life. सिद्धाणंतिमभागं अभव्वसिद्धादणंतगुणमेव। समयपबद्धं बंधदि जोगवसादो दु विसरित्थं ॥४॥ सिद्धानन्तिमभागं अभव्यसिद्धादनन्तगुणमेव । समयप्रबद्धं बध्नाति योगवशात्तु विसदृशम् ॥ ४॥
4. An infinite part of the number of Liberated souls (which is also infinite), and infinite times the number of souls, incapable of becoming liberated is the (maximum and minimum respectively) of unit of bondage, or the number of molecules (which the soul) binds (to itself) in one instant, owing to the soul's vibratory activity (intense or mild). But (the number of molecules is) unequal; (i.e., sometimes more and at other less are bound).
Commentary. Instant-bondage, Samaya Prabaddha, is the number of Karmic or no-Karmic molecules bound by the soul in one instant. Henceforth we call it the unit of Bondage or Instant-bondage.
जीरदि समयपबद्धं पोगदो णेगसमयबद्धं वा । गुणहाणीण दिवट्ठे समयपबद्धं हवे सत्तं ॥ ५॥ जीर्यते समयप्रबद्धं प्रयोगतः अनेकसमयबद्धं वा । गुणहाणीनां द्वर्द्ध समयप्रबद्धं भवेत् सत्त्वम् ॥ ५ ॥
5. One unit of bondage is shed (every instant); and many units of bondage (are shed in one instant) by effort (i.e., austerities, etc). The one and one-half of Gunahani's
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