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etc. due to the operation of specific physique-making karma of five sense and subhuman destinity. However, we also sometimes designate man as a lion. This means man may have some common-ness in qualities with lion. Man cannot be a real lion, he may be only a metaphorical lion. Similarly, the spacepoints may not be real in these realities despite their being primary for mattergies. 11-13. A. This is not correct. We find that there are two types of different but similar entities in the word 'man as a lion' where lion is secondary and man is primary. However, we do not have a similar position in terms of spacepoints of realities. They are same in all the realities because they occupy the same space unit. Secondly, while the single word 'lion' indicates the primary character, it indicates the secondary character when associated with an adjective as in lion-man. This type of difference in character is not found in spacepoints. They are always associated ones as the spacepoints of mattergy or medium of motion etc. Thirdly, the character in the usage of the word lion undergoes change due to its qualitative partial similarity in man. There is no such case in spacepoints of the above realities as each one has independent spacepoints. 14. Q. There are no real spacepoints of these realities like pitcher etc. Otherwise, they could be independently spotted or counted like those of the neck, bottom etc. in case of the pitcher due to their space-occupancy. 15. A. This is not correct. It is reasonable to count spacepoints of pitcher etc. due to their sense-perceptibility. But the realities of medium of rest and motion etc. have sense-imperceptible spacepoints. Therefore, they are not countable despite their real nature. The scriptures are authority on this point. They have been delivered by the omniscient Enlightened ones and conveyed by their chief disciples through memorised meanings. They have come down to us through the tradition of their successive disciples. They point out the primary realness of spacepoints of the realities. This concept is, thus, authenticated by the scriptures. They have described that there are infinite-times-infinite spacepoints of karmas of the knowledge - obscuring types etc. in every soul spacepoint. There are infinite-times-infinite spacepoints of bodies of
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