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CHAPTER TWO
type-it is this point that has been brought forth in the present aphorism. When after having given up the gross body pertaining to the earlier worldly career and after having undertaken transmigratory motion as accompanied by the karmic body alone a soul first receives physical particles appropriate for the gross body suited to the new worldly career-that is called birth. Birth thus understood is of three types-viz. agglutination, coming out of a womb, and sudden manifestation. Birth of the form of agglutination is that where without requiring parental intercourse the physical particles of the audārika type existing at the place of birth are first transformed into a body. Birth of the form of coming out of a womb is that where the physical particles comprising the semen and blood (=pertaining to ovum) existing at the place of birth are first received for the sake of building a body. Birth of the form of sudden manifestation is that where the physical particles of the vaikriya type existing at the place of birth are first transformed into a body. 32.
The Types of Seat of Birth :
Birth requires a place. And the place where the physical particles first received for the sake of building a gross body get mixed with a karmic body-as water gets mixed with hot ironthat is designated 'seat of birth'. The seat of birth is of nine types-viz. that possessed of living entities, cold, concealed, that devoid of living entities, hot, revealed, that partly possessed of and partly devoid of living entities, partly cold and partly hot, partly concealed and partly revealed.
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(1) That possessed of living entities: the seat where soulunits are in position.
(2) That devoid of living entities: the seat where no soulunits are in position.
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(3) That partly possessed of and partly devoid of living the seat where in one part soul-units are in position, while in another part they are not.
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(4) Cold the seat characterized by cold touch.
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