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undertaken with a view to putting up a new body. However, in the case of motion requiring three samayas and involving two turnings as also in that of motion requiring four samayas and involving three turnings such a situation does arise as is characterized by absence of nourishment. That is so because among the samayas constituting the duration of these two motions—three samayas in the case of the first, four in that of the second—the first is that of undertaking nourishment through the body left behind, while the last that of undertaking nourishment at the place of new births but the period lying in between these two samayas is characterized by absence of nourishment. That is why in the case of a motion involving two turnings souls are considered to be devoid of nourishment for a period of one samaya, while in the case of that involving three turnings they are considered to be devoid of nourishment for a period of two samayas. It is this very idea that is expressed in the present aphorissm. The sum and substance of the matter is that in the case of straight motion and of motion involving one turning the state of undertaking nourishment persists throughout, while in the case of motion involving two turnings and of that involving three the period lying in between the first and the last samaya—to be explicit, a period of one samaya in the first case, that of two samayas in the second-is characterized by absence of nourishment. Certain texts go on to speak of a period of three samayas characterized by absence of nourishment; there the possibility is conceded of motion requiring five samayas and involving four turnings. .
Question: We thus learn about the absence during transmigratory motion of a reception of gross physical particles by way of nourishment needed for building body, but what about the karmic physical particles ? Are they received during that stage or are they not?
Answer : They are received. Question : How ? Answer : At the time of transmigratory motion the worldly
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