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not calm down soon but also does not manifest itself soon. The mental unease born of neuter veda is like a heated brick which takes extremely long time to calm down.
In a woman the soft disposition is predominent and it stands in need of a tough element, in a man the tough disposition is predominent and it stands in need of a soft element. In a neuter person, on the other hand, both these dispositions are found mixed and they stand in need of both those types of elements. 50-51.
The Types of Life Quantum and Those Entitled to Them :
The beings born by way of sudden manifestation (i.e. the hellish beings and the heavenly beings), those possessing a body for the last time, the highly noble personages and the beings destined to live for asankhyāta years—these are necessarily possessed of an anapavartaniya life-quantum, that is, one whose temporal duration is irreducible. 52
When one finds that in the course of calamities like wars etc. thousands of bright young men meet death simultaneously while on the other hand even old persons and persons with a shattered body clean escape a terrible disaster one feels doubtful whether there is or is not a thing like untimely death-so that in one case a number of persons die simultaneously while in the other none dies. The question is here answered in the affirmative as also in the negative.
The life-quantum is of two types—viz. apavartaniya or one whose temporal duration is reducible and anapavartanīya or one whose temporal duration is irreduciable. Thus apavartaniya āyus is the life-quantum that can possibly be enjoyed away even before that period is past which was its due period at the time when it was earned by way of karmic bondage, while anapavartanīya ayus is the life-quantum that cannot be thus enjoyed away. That is to say, apavartaniya ayus is that life-quantum whose period of enjoyment is less than the period that was due at the time of the concerned karmic bondage, while anapavartanīya ayus is the life-quantum
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