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(viii) Ageing and grief Asked Gautama, “Are the carth-bodied beings subject to old age and bewailing?" Said the Lord. "O Gautama! The earth-bodied beings have the feeling of physical pain, and therefore, they have ageing. They have no mental pain and so they have no bewailing." 20 (ix) Frenzy Gautama: "O Lord! How many kinds of frenzy are there?" Lord: "'The frenzy is of two kinds, e.g., due to being possessed by a goblin or due to the rise of deluding karma." Gautama: "O Lord! Is frenzy possible in the earth-bodied beings?" Lord: "Gautama, both types are possible in them.“ When the goblin and the like sprinkle them with inauspicious particles, it is a case of frenzy duc to being possessed by a goblin. When such frenzy occurs due to the maturation of deluding karma, it is called frenzy due to the rise of delusion." Even today such frenzy is visible in diamonds inhabited by the evil spirits.22 There are also some houses haunted by goblin. 23 (x) Instinct Gautama: "Lord, how many kinds of instincts are there?" Lord: “Gautama, there are ten instincts. e.g., food, fear, sex, possession, anger, pride, deceit, greed, mundane & collective." Gautama : "Lord, how many instincts are there in the earth bodied beings?” Lord : There are all the ten instincts" (xi) Knowledge Both the two varieties of knowledge – sensual and articulate are tacitly present in them. They have the power of grasping the vibrations caused by the speech and mind of the humans beings, although it is not possible for the one-sensed beings to listen to the instructions given by others; even then they have a kind of tacit linguistic potential on account of a peculiar type of elimination-cum-subsidence of relevant karma due to which articulate knowledge associated with liguistic symbol arises. The carthbodied beings have the desire for food, which is a kind of wish like – if I get the food, it would be beneficial to me." Such wish is certainly informed with linguistic symbol however inarticulate. It is reasonable therefore lo admit that the earth-bodied beings have the tacit language potential.“
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