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118 CHARACTERISTIC DIFFERENCES AMONG HEAVENLY BEINGS
20. There is increase with regard to the lifetime, power, happiness, brilliance, purity in thought-colouration, capacity of the senses and range of clairvoyance.
Owing to the fruition of life-karma acquired by oneself, the soul's association with the body in a particular birth is called lifetime. Capacity to confer benefits or inflict pain on others is superhuman power. Enjoyment of sensuous pleasures is happiness. The splendour of the body, the dress and the orna. ments constitute brilliance. The thought-complexions have been mentioned. Lesyaviśuddhi is the purity of the thoughtcomplexions. Indriyavadhiviṣaya means the capacity of the senses and the range of clairvoyance. The suffix 'tasi' denotes that they are superior in these respects. The Vaimānikas higher and higher up are superior to those lower and lower down with regard to lifetime and so on.
Increase with regard to lifetime etc. may extend to movement etc. The next sutra is intended to preclude such an unwarrantable interpretation.
गतिशरीरपरिग्रहामिमानतो हीनाः
Gatisariraparigrahābhimānato hināḥ
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21. (But) there is decrease with regard to motion, stature, attachment and pride.
Motion is the cause of movement from one place to another. The body is the transformable body. Attachment is fondness for worldly things owing to the fruition of greed. Pride is haughtiness or self-conceit arising from the passion of pride. These grow less and less in the case of Vaimānikas higher and higher up. The fondness for pastime in other places becomes less. Hence higher and higher up there is less movement in the case of the celestial beings. The stature of Saudharma and Aisāna devas is seven cubits, that of Sanatkumāra and Mahendra six, that of Brahma, Brahmotlara, Läntava and Käpistha five, that of Sukra, Mahāśukra, Satāra and Sahasrara four, that of Anata and Pranata three and a half, that of Arana and Acyuta three, that of the lower Graiveyakas two and a half, that of the middle Graiveyakas two, that of the upper Graiveyakas and Anudiśavimanas one and a half and that of
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