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or for past and future material phenomena, when there is the condition of object condition, only object-dominance and object-support are additionally obtained. In the dominance condition, investigation is similar to non-delusion. Desire, as a dominance condition, not abandoning its state as a dominance condition, goes to a state of many conditions in eight other ways through the aspects of co-arisen, mutual, support, result, associated, dissociated, presence, and absence. Effort, through these and the conditions of faculty and path, goes to a state of many conditions in ten other ways. Mind, removing the path condition from that, and inserting the nutriment condition, goes to a state of many conditions in ten other ways beyond the dominance condition through these aspects. But the many-conditioned nature of object-dominance should be understood in the same way as stated under the object condition. The immediately contiguous condition, not abandoning its state as an immediately contiguous condition, goes to a state of many conditions in five other ways through the aspects of support, action, repetition, absence, and departure. Only the volition of the noble path obtains action-condition here, not the remaining phenomena. The co-arisen condition, not abandoning its state as a co-arisen condition, goes to a state of many conditions in fourteen other ways through the aspects of root, dominance, mutual, support, action, result, nutriment, faculty, absorption, path, associated, dissociated, presence, and absence. This too is the highest limit. But the absence of root conditions etc. should be understood here through the aspects of co-arisen base etc. The same method applies to the mutual condition. The support condition, not abandoning its state as a support condition, goes to a state of many conditions in seventeen other ways through the aspects of the twenty-four conditions, its own support condition, and removing six conditions: immediately contiguous, immediately contiguous, subsequent, repetition, absence, and departure. This too is the highest limit. But here, the absence of root-condition etc., should be understood in terms of dependence on the object. In dependence-condition, object-dependence is similar to object-domination. Immediately-contiguous-dependence, while not abandoning its immediately-contiguous-dependence-conditionality, becomes many conditions in six other ways, in terms of immediately-contiguous, contiguous, action, habituation, absence, and non-departure. Only the intention of the noble path here obtains action-conditionality, not the remaining phenomena. Naturally-occurring-dependence is simply naturally-occurring-dependence. Pre-nascence-condition, while not abandoning its pre-nascence-conditionality, becomes many conditions in eight other ways, in terms of object, object-domination, dependence, reliance, faculty, dissociation, presence, and non-disappearance. This too is a prominent designation, for here object-pre-nascence does not obtain reliance, faculty, or dissociation-conditionality. What is obtainable and unobtainable should be understood further on from this. Post-nascence-condition, while not abandoning its post-nascence-conditionality, becomes many conditions in three other ways, in terms of dissociation, presence, and non-disappearance. Habituation-condition, while not abandoning its habituation-conditionality, becomes many conditions in five other ways, in terms of immediately-contiguous, contiguous, dependence, absence, and non-departure. Action-condition, while not abandoning its action-conditionality, the single-momentary one, becomes many conditions in nine other ways, in terms of co-nascence, reciprocity, reliance, result, nutriment, association, dissociation, presence, and non-disappearance. The multi-momentary one, becomes many conditions in five other ways, in terms of dependence, immediately-contiguous, contiguous, absence, and non-departure. Result-condition, while not abandoning its result-conditionality, becomes many conditions in fourteen other ways, in terms of root, domination, co-nascence, reciprocity, reliance, action, nutriment, faculty, absorption, path, association, dissociation, presence, and non-disappearance. In nutriment-condition, nutriment as material food, is not abandoning its nutriment-conditionality. While not abandoning its nature of being a root condition, it attains the state of being a manifold condition through other two aspects by way of presence and absence, thus abandoning its nature of being unremoved. The remaining three, while not abandoning their nature of being nutriment conditions, attain the state of being a manifold condition through other eleven aspects by way of predominance, co-nascence, reciprocity, dependence, kamma, result, faculty, association, dissociation, presence, and absence, as appropriate. In the case of the faculty condition, the five physical faculties, while not abandoning their nature of being faculty conditions, attain the state of being a manifold condition through other five aspects by way of dependence, pre-nascence, dissociation, presence, and absence. The physical life faculty too, while not abandoning its nature of being a faculty condition, attains the state of being a manifold condition through other two aspects by way of presence and absence. The immaterial faculties also, while not abandoning their nature of being faculty conditions, attain the state of being a manifold condition through other thirteen aspects by way of root, predominance, co-nascence, reciprocity, dependence, result, nutriment, jhāna, path, association, dissociation, presence, and absence, as appropriate. The jhāna condition, while not abandoning its nature of being a jhāna condition, attains the state of being a manifold condition through other ten aspects by way of co-nascence, reciprocity, dependence, result, faculty, path, association, dissociation, presence, and absence, as appropriate. The path condition, while not abandoning its nature of being a path condition, attains the state of being a manifold condition through other twelve aspects by way of the ten mentioned in the jhāna condition, and root and predominance. The association condition, while not abandoning its nature of being an association condition, attains the state of being a manifold condition through other thirteen aspects by way of root, predominance, co-nascence, reciprocity, dependence, kamma, result, nutriment, faculty, jhāna, path, presence, and absence, as appropriate. The dissociation condition, while not abandoning its nature of being a dissociation condition, excluding the six conditions enumerated as contiguity, immediate contiguity, habitual recurrence, association, non-existence, and absence, attains the state of being a manifold condition through other seventeen aspects by way of the remaining conditions, as appropriate. Here, the analysis of conditions for form and formless states should be understood. The presence-condition, without abandoning its presence-condition nature, except for the five conditions reckoned as contiguity, immediate contiguity, repetition, absence, and disappearance, attains the state of being multiple conditions in various ways, according to suitability, through the remaining eighteen modes. The absence-condition and disappearance-condition are similar to the contiguity-condition. The non-disappearance-condition is just like the presence-condition. Thus, here, the determination should be understood, even of one condition becoming multiple conditions. Similarity of conditions: Among these twenty-four conditions, contiguity, immediate contiguity, proximate condition, dependence, repetition, absence, and disappearance are similar. Likewise, object, object-dominance, object-dependence: in this way, here, the determination should be understood, even of the similarity of conditions. Dissimilarity of conditions: Here, the prenascent condition is dissimilar to the postnascent condition, likewise, the association condition to the dissociation condition, the presence-condition to the absence-condition, the disappearance-condition to the non-disappearance-condition. In this way, here, the determination should be understood, even of the dissimilarity of conditions. Pairing: And among these, due to similarity in meaning, similarity in sound, opposition in time, being cause and effect, and mutual opposition, the determination should be understood as pairing. Contiguity and immediate contiguity, due to similarity in meaning, are called one pair; dependence and strong dependence, due to similarity in sound; prenascent and postnascent, due to opposition in time; kamma-condition and result-condition, due to being cause and effect; association and dissociation conditions, due to mutual opposition, are called one pair, likewise, presence and absence conditions, disappearance and non-disappearance conditions. Thus, here, the determination should be understood, even of pairing. Generating and non-generating: And among these, contiguity, immediate contiguity, proximate condition, strong dependence, repetition condition, being of diverse moments, kamma-condition, absence and disappearance conditions, these conditions are only generating, not non-generating. The postnascent condition, the The support condition is purely a sustainer, not a generator. The rest are both generators and non-generators, and sustainers, that is the meaning. Thus here, the distinction should be understood in terms of generator and non-generator as well. Among "all-pervasive" and "not all-pervasive" conditions, the co-nascent, dependence, presence, and non-departure conditions are called all-pervasive, meaning they are the basis, the cause, of all conditioned phenomena, both material and immaterial. Without these, not even a single phenomenon can arise.