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The Chapter on the Physical Body
211. In the fifth, the first and so on are of manifest meaning only.
6.
Commentary on the Saṃsappanīya Discourse
216. In the sixth, "an exposition of the Teaching on creeping, monks" means the proclamation of the Teaching, which is reckoned as an exposition of the cause of creeping. "Creeps along" means one performing that action struggles about, crawls about, and writhes. "Crooked destination" means whatever destination one will go to by that action, that is crooked. "Crooked rebirth" means whatever destination one will be reborn in, that too is just as crooked. "Of the creeping kind" means of the nature of creeping. "Rebirth of a being comes from what has come to be" means the arising of a being comes from existing action according to its intrinsic nature. "Contacts touch" means resultant contacts touch.
7-8.
Commentary on the Two Discourses on the Intentional
217-218. In the seventh, "intentional" means done having intended and having designed. "Accumulated" means heaped up and increased. "Without experiencing" means without having experienced the result of those actions. "Destruction" means the state of the end having gone, the making of a definite conclusion of those actions. "And that indeed in this very life" means and that result indeed, to be experienced in the present life, in this very life. "Upon rebirth" means to be experienced in the next life, in the immediately following individual existence. "Or in some other subsequent existence" means to be experienced from one life to another, even in a thousandth individual existence when there is continuation of the round of rebirths. By this he shows this: "When there is continuation of the round of rebirths, regarding actions deserving of obtained results, there is no spot on earth found, where standing one could be freed from evil deeds." "Threefold" means of three kinds. "Failure of bodily action through corruption" means the failure reckoned as bodily action. By this method all the terms should be understood. In the eighth, "unmistakable die" means a die that is quadrangular on all sides.
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Commentary on the Discourse on the Body Born of Impurity
219. In the ninth, "of suffering" means of resultant suffering, or of the very suffering of the round of rebirths. In this discourse there is no simile of the gem. "Thus free from covetousness" - "thus" is merely a particle. Or just as those developing friendliness become free from covetousness, thus free from covetousness. Having thus shown the suppression of the mental hindrances by the disappearance of covetousness and so on, now teaching the escapes from the unwholesome, he said beginning with "with a mind accompanied by friendliness." "Limitless" means limitless because of having limitless beings as its object, or because of practised mastery. Action done within limits is sensual-sphere action. "It does not persist there" means that, like a small body of water before a great flood, it is not able to stand having taken its own place; rather, just as a great flood overwhelms a small body of water, this very limitless action, having submerged it, produces its own result. "From his youth" means beginning from the time of childhood.
"This body cannot be taken and go" - the meaning is that it is not possible to take this body and go to the world beyond. "One whose core is mind" means one for whom mind is the cause; or alternatively, one whose inner nature is mind itself. For immediately after the death consciousness of just one existence, at the second consciousness of conception, one becomes a god, one becomes a being doomed to Niraya Hell, one becomes an animal. According to the former method too, by mind as the cause, one becomes a god or one doomed to Niraya Hell - this is the meaning. "All that is to be experienced here" - this is said by way of the portion to be experienced in the present life. "It will not follow me" means because the state of being experienced in the next life has been cut off through friendliness, it will not follow by way of being experienced in the next life. This should be understood as the reviewing of the noble persons who are stream-enterers and once-returners. "To non-returning" means to non-returning through meditative absorption. "For one with wisdom here" means wisdom in this Dispensation is called "wisdom here"; the meaning is of a noble disciple who is established in noble wisdom through the practice of the Dispensation. "A further liberation" means arahantship. The tenth is of manifest meaning only.
The Chapter on the Body Born of Impurity is the first.