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भगवती सूत्र शः ६ उः १
four types, which are mind-instrument, word-instrument, bodyinstrument and karma-instrument.
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Q. 6. Bhante! How many instruments are the infernal beings stated to possess?
A. 6. Gautama! Four, which are stated to be mindinstrument, word-instrument, body-instrument and karmainstrument. All the five-organ beings are stated to have four types of instruments. One organ beings have two-bodyinstrument and karma-instrument. Beings with two to four organs have three-word-instrument, body-instrument and karma-instrument.
Q. 7. Bhante! Do the infernal beings have unwholesome experience (asātā-vedeniya) due to instruments? Or, do they have unwholesome experience due to non-instruments?
A. 7. Gautama ! The infernal beings have it due to instruments, not due to non-instruments.
Q. 8. Why do you say so ?
A. 8. Gautama! The infernal beings are stated to have four instruments, which are, mind-instrument, word-instrument, body-instrument and karma-instrument. As these four are inauspicious, so the infernal beings experience it due to instruments, and not due to non-instruments. It is for this so.
Q. 9. Bhante! Do the Asurakumāras have wholesome (sātā-vedaniya) (experience) due to instruments or to noninstruments ?
A. 9. Gautama! (They have it) due to instruments, not to non-instruments.
Q. 10. Why is it so ?
