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CHAPTER TWO
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The Nature :
The taijasa and kārmaņa—these two types of body suffer no resistance anywhere in the world; that is to say, even an entity as hard as diamond cannot prevent them from gaining entrancefor they are subtle in the extreme. Even though it is normally found that a tangible entity suffers resistance at the hands of another such entity, this rule of resistance is applicable to gross entities alone—not also to the subtle ones. For a subtle gains entrance everywhere and suffers no resistance whatsoeverthus behaving as fire does in relation to an iron-ball.
Question : But then being subtle the vaikriya and āhāraka types of body too should be declared to be such as suffer no resistance ?
Answer : Certainly, they too gain entrance without suffering resistance, but in the present context by motion devoid of resistance is to be understood motion that suffers no resistance right upto the end of the loka-region. So far as the vaikriya and āhāraka types of body are concerned they are doubtless such as suffer no resistance; however, unlike the taijasa and kārmaņa types of body they exhibit this feature not throughout the lokaregion but only in the sub-region of it called trasa-nāļi (lit. the tunnel containing the mobile beings).
Their temporal Duration :
The connection of the taijasa and kārmaņa types of body with a soul is beginningless in the form of a stream, something which is not the case with the first three types of body. For these three types of body cease to remain connected with a soul after a particular period of time is past. That is why the three types of body audārika etc. are declared to be such as are connected with a soul occasionally or temporarily, while the taijasa and kārmana types such as are connected with a soul since a beginningless time.
Question : When they are connected with a soul since a beginningless time they should cease to be never at all. For that
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