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What is said earlier, and what is said later, should be understood everywhere. Explanation of the negative-direct order of the question section. And the explanation of the wholesome triad conditional relations is completed. 2. Explanation of the Feeling Triad 1. In the feeling triad, the three feelings, materiality, and nibbāna, These phenomena are not obtainable, Therefore, "Conditioned by one aggregate, two aggregates" etc. is said. At the moment of rebirth, in pleasant feeling, this is said in terms of rebirth with a root. Since painful feeling is not obtainable in rebirth, The taking of rebirth is not done in the second turn. There. In the rebirth moment of the 'iyavāra', it is stated as rebirth with a root, i.e., with a cause. Here, and in the subsequent conditions, the meaning follows the Pāli exactly. Three instances are stated everywhere. Therefore, it is said, "Three due to root...etc...three due to non-separation." 6. However, in the combination of conditions, due to the absence of painful feeling as a result of root-cause, two are stated for result in the root-cause method. Even in combinations with dominance, etc., only two for result. Why? Because of the absence of dominant absorption and paths in painful feeling as result. And with whatever combinations two instances are obtained for result, in combinations with result, there are only two for those as well. 10. In the negative, not-pre-arisen, and in the immaterial and in rebirth, two instances come due to the absence of painful feeling. Even in non-separation, only two due to the absence of pain in the immaterial. However, conditions such as co-nascent, which encompass all immaterial phenomena, are lost in this negative instance. Why? Because a feeling-associated phenomenon does not arise dependent on a feeling-associated phenomenon through co-nascent conditions, etc., but arises without the post-arisen condition. 17. However, in the combination of conditions, one in not-pre-arisen and in the immaterial and in rebirth is stated with reference to the unwholesome, painful, and pleasant feeling-associated. Two in not-karma is stated in terms of unwholesome, action-associated volition. For, dependent on phenomena associated with pleasant and neither-painful-nor-pleasant feelings, unwholesome action-volition associated with those feelings arises. The same method applies in not-root condition and not-result. One in non-separation is stated in terms of advertence in the immaterial. In this way, the calculation should be understood in all combinations. 25-37. In the forward-negative, the conditions obtained in the negative remain from the negative side. In the negative-forward, all conditions such as co-nascent, which encompass all material phenomena, remain only from the forward side, not from the negative side. However, since there is no dominance for the unwholesome arising of consciousness, the dominance condition does not remain from the forward side. However, in the dependent origination instances, etc., the post-arisen because it is not obtained by conformity. Those who are obtained here by conformity, even when combined and connected with those obtained by opposition. Among them, the three, two, and one are the three limitations of turns, they should be considered appropriately everywhere. And this method of description that is stated in the dependent origination section is the same in the sections on co-nascent conditions, etc. 38. But in the question section, "of the aggregates associated," means of the aggregates associated with it, by those same causes, or by pleasant feeling, etc. 39. "Being remorseful" means being remorseful about generosity, etc., thinking, "Why did I do this? I did it badly; it would have been better not to have done it." But in the decline of jhāna, being remorseful, thinking, "My jhāna has declined; alas, I am a great loser." "Delusion arises" means delusion associated with aversion. Likewise, "having delusion as its basis" means delusion associated with aversion itself. 45. "Subconscious state associated with pleasant feeling" to "of the subconscious state associated with neither-pain-nor-pleasure" means the posterior subconsciousness reckoned as having that as its object, to the root subconsciousness. "Of arising" means of the subconsciousness having that as its object. Both of these are called "arising" because they have arisen from wholesome or unwholesome apperception. "Of the arising of action" here too, this is the same method. "Of the arising of fruition" means the fruition consciousness of the subconsciousness. For one is said to have arisen from fruition by the subconsciousness. Hereafter, in the places where "arising" comes, this is the same method. 46. "Aggregates associated with painful feeling" means unwholesome aggregates associated with displeasure. "Of the arising associated with neither-pain-nor-pleasure" means of the adventitious subconsciousness reckoned as having that as its object, or of the root subconsciousness associated with equanimity. But if the root subconsciousness is accompanied by joy, and it is not the cause of the arising of that object, then even in an object other than the object of apperception, neither-pain-nor-pleasure, unwholesome result arises. That too is called "arising" because it has arisen from apperception. The explanations of co-nascent condition etc. are straightforward. There is nothing here that cannot be understood by the method explained earlier, therefore, it should be carefully noted. 62. Now, to show by summarizing in which condition which variations are obtained, it is said "three in root condition" etc. There, all three should be understood in terms of the three pure terms. In object condition, nine, with one root and one ending. In dominance condition, five: three unmixed in terms of co-nascent dominance, and two in terms of object dominance, "associated with pleasure for what is associated with pleasure, associated with neither-pain-nor-pleasure for what is associated with neither-pain-nor-pleasure," these two should not be counted. But these two should be counted: "associated with pleasure for neither-pain-nor-pleasure, associated with neither-pain-nor-pleasure for pleasure," thus five. In contiguity and immediate contiguity, seven: pleasure for two, likewise pain, and neither-pain-nor-pleasure for three, thus seven. In dependence, nine: associated with pleasure for what is associated with pleasure by three kinds of dependence, for what is associated with pain by natural dependence alone, for what is associated with equanimity by three, associated with pain for what is associated with pain by immediate and natural dependence, for what is associated with pleasure by natural dependence, for what is associated with neither-pain-nor-pleasure in two ways, associated with neither-pain-nor-pleasure for what is associated with neither-pain-nor-pleasure in three ways, likewise for what is associated with pleasure, for what is associated with pain by immediate and natural dependence, thus nine. Here, due to the difference in conditions, there are twenty kinds of dependence: nine natural dependences, seven immediate dependences, and four object dependences. Antecedent and subsequent conditions are excluded here. For neither antecedent nor subsequent immaterial phenomena are conditions for immaterial phenomena. In action condition, eight: associated with pleasure for what is associated with pleasure in two ways, for what is associated with pain only at different moments, likewise for the other. Associated with pain for what is associated with pain in two ways. , for one associated with pleasure, it is not; for the other, it is momentary, associated with neither pain nor pleasure. For one associated with neither pain nor pleasure, it is twofold; for the others, it is momentary. Thus, there are eight. Due to differences in conditions here, eight are momentary, three are co-nascent, thus eleven are conditions of action. Just as with pre-nascence and post-nascence, so too the condition of dissociation is severed here. For immaterial phenomena are not a condition of dissociation for immaterial phenomena. In absence and disappearance, there are seven, similar to contiguity. Thus here, three, five, seven, eight, nine: these are the five numerical distinctions. By their means, in the comparison of conditions, the count should be understood by removing what is less, what is more, and what is unobtainable in comparisons with the lesser count. 63-64. With root condition, object condition is not obtained, nor are contiguity and the like. With dominance condition, there are two, leaving aside the pain category, the remaining two. For a root associated with pain, there is no such thing as a dominance condition, therefore it is not obtained, thus it is removed. The same method applies to the remaining two. Thus, in the root-based, there are only two numerical distinctions, by their means six combinations are stated. Among them, the first is stated by means of non-resultant, dissociated from knowledge, non-dominant phenomena; the second, by means of their resultant; the third and fourth, by means of their associated with knowledge; the fifth, by means of non-resultant, dominant, non-delusion; the sixth, by means of resultant, dominant, non-delusion. Or, the first is by means of all root conditions, the second, by means of all resultant root conditions, the third, by means of all non-delusion root conditions, the fourth, by means of all resultant non-delusion root conditions. The fifth, by means of all dominant non-delusion, the sixth, by means of all dominant resultant non-delusion. 66. In the object-based, with dominance, there are four: thus, by means of object-dominance, pleasure for pleasure, for neither pain nor pleasure, neither pain nor pleasure for neither pain nor pleasure, for pleasure: thus, there are four.