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there is no collocality) and because of the non-reality of the series, how can there be even imagination of these two ? And, if an evolving self is adopted, everything is unobjectionably appropriate: because of the text
**Evolution is passing into another state; for neither as abiding in every respect, Nor as destruction in every respect is evolution accepted on the part of those who
understand it"). The commentator on the Patañjali doctrine also states: (206) "Evolution is origination, in a substance which abides, of a different attribute, with cessation of a prior attribute"). Similarly also with the 'non-equivocal' doctrines of universal and particular, existent and non-existent, utterable and unutterable, a non-existence of pleasure and pain may by attentive people be inferred for themselves.
Now the exposition of the second half of the verse). Though thus the (linguistic) usage as to the experience of pleasure and pain is not justified; others, those belonging to other sects, and accordingly in very truth enemies; for the word 'other' is also a synonym for enemy. By the sword of the vice of contentions (vāda) of bad reasoning: reasonings (nili), because by them a thing particularised in part is led (niyate) to be object of presentation; Nayas (Methods); 'bad reasonings are faulty reasonings, wrong Methods; of these a speaking (vadana), a demonstration to others, is 'contention of bad reasonings'; therein the vice', excessive addiction: engaging without reference to propriety, is what it comes to: is 'vice of contention of bad reasonings'. This itsell, because of possessing the power of cleaving the body of true enlightenment, is a sword, like a sword, a sazre; so 'the sword of the vice of contentions of bad reasoning. Thereby, by the sword of the vice of contentions of bad reasoning', as instrument, by the sword of bombastic descriptions of bad Methods; thus: he states a fashion as well known by experience. The word 'even being out of order, even without residue: the world, even the entire Triple World; meaning, "because of being situated in A, termed A"!l), the mass of creatures in the Triple Universe; is abolished, slain by cutting off the inner life of correct cognition, etc.: 'save it!' is the intent. For by the preachers correct cognition, etc., are celebrated as the inner life: and this is why in regard even to the perfected there is the designation "life'. For otherwise the root jiv is used in the sense of maintaining the vital airs; and, as they are without maintenance of the tenfold vital airs, lifelessness of them follows; and this (result) is contradictory; and thus it is established that there are transmigrant souls (207), through maintenance of the tenfold substance prānas 12); and perfected, through maintenance of the inner life-breath, cognition, etc. And the own-form of these bad Methods we shall expound in a later (the next) verse. This is the meaning of the verse.
8) No common experiencer.
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10) From Vyāsa-bhas ya (see also the uptti of Bhoja) on Patañjali's Yoga-sútra (M. L.'s statement here is not correct), III. 13.
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12) Viz, the 5, sense-organs, expiration and inspiration, vitality, mind-organ-force, speech-force, bodily powers (M. L., citing Säntisūri's Jiva-vicära, v. 42).
