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RATIONAL AND IRRATIONAL BEINGS
degrees of vibratory activity must be understood as before. That is, for the increase of each degree of passion, there occurs an increase in the degrees of intensity of the extent of one/innumerable part of the universe. And, for the increase of each degree of intensity, there occurs an increase in the degrees of vibratory activity of the extent of one/innumerable part of the height of the universe.
In the same manner, the regular course of increase must be understood from the third degree of passion up to the limit of innumerable times the spatial units of the universe. Just as the degree of passion etc. have been described for the minimum duration, in the same manner these must be ascertained for the increase of one instant to the minimum duration. Similarly, for every duration with the increase of one instant at a time, up to the maximum limit of thirty sägaropanı kulikoti is reached, the degrees of passion etc. must be ascertained. The six stages of growth or increase are increase by one,infinite part, increase by onelinnumerable part, increase by one, numerable part, numerable fold increase, innumerable fold increase and infinite fold increase. Similarly, the stages of decrease are also six. The four stages are those without 'increase by one/infinite part and infinite fold increase'. In the same manner, the cycle of wanderings must be understood with regard to the maintypes and the subtypes of karmas. All these combined constitute the cycle of thought.
"Owing to the association of wrong belief, the soul is plunged in all the stages of the four types of bondage-nature, duration, intensity and space and wanders in the cycle of thought."
Those who are released from these five kinds of cycles are the emancipated souls. Transmigrating souls' are mentioned first in the sutra, as the term 'liberated' is based on the former.
The transmigrating souls are of two kinds, those with and without minds.
समनस्कामनस्काः Samanaskāmanaskah . (11)
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