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the passions also cause injury, bondage, disgrack, anguish and so on. (7)
If the hole in the keel of a vessel sailing on the ocean is not closed, then water enters the ship, and the passengers certainly go down. But if the hole is plugged, then the passengers reach their destination. Similarly if influx is stopped, then there can be no obstacle to emanipation. (8)
Dissociation takes place after the fruition of karmas. It is of two kinds. One is involuntary and the other is by one's effort. The involuntary dissociation on the fruition of karmas, common to the four conditions of existence such as infernal beings gives rise to a chain of evils, Dissociation by conquest of afflictions is by one's own effort. It gives rise to a chain of good or to no series. (9)
The structure of the universe is in the midst of the non-universe space which is endless. (10)
In one minute living being there are organisms infinite times the emancipated souls. Thus the entire universe is densely filled with one-sensed beings with no inter-space. To become a being with more than one sense is as difficult as finding out a very small piece of diamond buried in the sands of an ocean. Even among these most of them are endowed with imperfect senses (i. e. less than the five senses). Hence birth as a five-sensed being is as rare as gratitude among the good qualities. And even among the five sensed beings, many belong to the animal world; such as the cow, the decr, the
