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Bhāṣvam Sutra 29 The second example- As in the case of man, endowed with all the senseorgans and with fully manifest consciousness, there arises inexpressible extreme pain, when simultaneously are pierced or cut all his aforesaid thirty-two organs, e.g. fool ankle, etc., exactly so there arise similar extreme pain in the earth-bodied beings too. 1.30 appoge sampamārae, appege uddavae. Sometimes a person is beaten to a state of unconsciousness and sometimes tortured to death.
Bhāsyam Sūtra 30
The third example – Just as when a person is led into a state of unconsciousness and put to death, he feels a kind of indistinct pain in the state of unconsciousness, and while dying also; exactly so the earth-bodied beings experience pain on account of their consciousness being dim due to the rise of extremely drowsy slumber. Beating into the state of the unconscious can be compared with calcination of mercury, as it has been said that the calcination of mercury is a kind of death." It is also said that the mercury when calcified cures diseases. In other words, by getting dead, it onlivens others. Il removes the ailments of the patients afflicted with serious diseases. In Sanskrit, the name : pārada' (lit. leading to the other end) is significant as leading from death to life. In the Bhagavati Sutra also, pain has been shown to exist in the earthbodied beings: Gautama: "Lord, what kind of pain do the earth-bodied beings experience when injured with weapon?” Lord: "Gautama, what sort of pain does an aged and decrepit person experience when struck on the head by a strong and hefty youth with his fist?" Gautama: "O long-lived ascetic! He feels excruciating pain." Lord: "Gautama, the carth-bodied beings, when struck, feel a pain that is much more excruciating." 1.31 ettha sattham asamārambhamāṇassa iccole armbhă apariņņātă
bhavamti The person thus indulging in acts of violence does neither comprehend nor abandon them. 1.32 eltha sattham asamārambhamāṇassa iccete ärambhä parinņātā
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