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THE PROJEOTABLE BODY
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49. The projectable body, which is auspicious and pure and without impediment, originates in the saint of the sixth stage only.
It is called auspicious because it is originated by auspicious karma (āhāraka kāya yoga). Sometimes the cause is identified with the effect. For instance, food which preserves life is called life. Since it (the projectable body) brings about spotless and pure result, it is called pure. For instance, yarn which is the cause is called cloth. There is no impediment both ways. The body does not cause impediment to anything else. Nor does anything else cause impediment to it. Ca is intended to indicate its use. Its utility is sometimes to ascertain the possession of extraordinary powers, sometimes to ascertain the true nature of minute objects and also to safeguard self-control. The word āhāraka is the repetition of the projectable body mentioned previously (36). The moment the ascetic commences to originate the projectable body, he comes down to the sixth spiritual stage. Hence it is mentioned of the ascetic of the sixth stage. 'Only' is used to determine what is intended. It originates only in the ascetic of the sixth stage and not in others. This is how it must be understood. And it should not be understood that the ascetic of the sixth stage has the projectable body only and not the gross body etc.
Thus the mundane beings possess bodies as indicated. Now, do the three genders obtain in all the four conditions of existence, or is there any rule regarding this? Yes, there is. नारकसम्मूर्च्छिनो नपुंसकानि
yoll Nārakasammūrcchino napumsakāni (50) 50. The infernal beings and the spontaneously generated are of the neuter sex.
The infornal regions are described later. Those who are born in the infernal regions are infernal beings. Those who are generated spontaneously are the spontaneously generated. The two together are the infernal beings and the spontaneously generated. Owing to the rise of the particular karma of neuter sex, which is one of the subtypes of quasi-passions, and the
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