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fineness. Some of the bodies formed due to the fruition of these karmic subspecies are aggregates and gross. They are, therefore, perceptible, while others are non-perceptible like the luminous and karmic bodies. Similarly, the mind is also non-perceptible. The speech and respirations are perceptible by human beings while they are non-perceptible by fine class of living beings as they are beyond sense-perceptibility for them. Thus, this aphorism is meant for classifying the different types of functions of mattergies in terms of body etc. 13. The five types of bodies like gross etc. have been described to be mattergic in earlier aphorisms 2.36-2.48. 14. Q. The karmic body is non-mattergic as it has no form or shape like space. Only gross-bodies with form should be called mattergic. A. This is not correct. The karma is mattergic only as its fruition depends on contact with material objects. For example, we see that the grains get ripened in contact with water and heat etc. They are all mattergic. Similarly, the karmic body also ripens in the presence of jaggery, molasses and thorns etc. Thus, the karmic body should be taken as perceptible and mattergic. No non-mattergic entity has been observed to ripen in contact with material entity.
The speech has two varieties- physical speech and psychical speech. Both forms are mattergic. They are mattergic with respect to their being instrumental in production and effects on mattergy. The psychical speech is mattergic because it is caused by the operation of energyobstructiing karma, knowledge-obscuring karma of sensory and vocable) subspecies and physique-making karma of limbs and sublimbs. It cannot be there in the absence of the above mattergic karmic species.
The physical speech is also mattergic which is transformed into speech through palate, lips etc. prompted by active soul endowed with this capacity. This is mattergic also as it is received by the sense of hearing Q. Why the sound is not heard again and again after its first pronunciation? 16. A. It is not heard again and again as the sound once received by the ears gets split in all directions afterwards just as the electric lightning
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