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THE NATURE OF THE LAST TWO KINDS OF BODIES
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is innumerable fold. How? With regard to atoms or spacepoints and not with regard to pervasive space. "Successively' is supplied from the previous sutra. This would extend up to the karmic body. In order to preclude such an interpretation, it is mentioned prior to the luminous body. The transformable body has innumerable times the number of space-points of the gross one. The translocation body has innumerable times the number of space-points of the transformable one. What is the extent of the multiplying term ? It is one/innumerable part of a palya. If so the bodies must be successively greater in size. No. There is no difference in size owing to the nature of arrangement or structure, as in the case of a heap of cotton and a ball of iron”.
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Are the spatial units of the last two the same, or is there any difference ?
___ अनन्तगुणे परे .
Anantagune pare 39. The last two have infinite fold (space-points).
"With regard to spatial unit' is supplied. It is taken thus. The luminous body is infinite fold in space-points, when compared with the translocation body. And the karmic body is infinite fold in space-points, when compared with the luminous body. What is the extent of the multiplying term ? It is infinite fold of the non-potential souls and one/infinite part of the emancipated souls.
It is contended that the transmigrating being made up of matter cannot go to the desired place, just as a dart or a spear cannot pass through a wall etc. But it is not so. What is the reason ? Both these are without obstruction. अप्रतीघाते
Il yo !! Apratīghāte
(40) 40. (The last two are) without impediment.
1.In iron the atoms are more compact than in cotton. Hence more atoms of iron occupy less space than less atoms of cotton. A space-point is that which one atom occupies. Hence, though the space-points are greater in the case of the successive bodies, owing to compactness of particles, the size is the same.
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