Twenty-eightfold incapacity

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[Base sūtra:] Incapacity (aśakti) in twenty-eight ways.

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[Verse:] Dullness [of hearing], leprosy [of skin], blindness [of sight], [loss of] taste, [loss of] smell, dumbness, lameness, withered-arm, anal disorder, impotence, and madness—this [list of injuries to the organs] is thus set forth.

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[Verse:] The injury of the eleven organs—in the form of deafness and the rest—[gives eleven]; the injury of the intellect is seventeenfold, [consisting of] the inversions of the {{tuṣṭi / siddhi / aśakti|contentments and attainments}} [i.e. nine inverted contentments and eight inverted attainments].

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[Verse:] The conviction "there is no {{pradhāna|primordial nature}}" is [the inverted contentment called] "ajambhikā"; "there is no great principle" is [the inversion of] "salila"; and "āyācchā" [is inverted] in [the denial] "there is no I-maker";

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[Verse:] or "there is no unseen [merit]"—[the denial that] the pentad of subtle elements is the cause of the [gross] elements. "All this is just brahman; being brahman alone, one attains brahman"—as is the view of the Vedāntins, so [erroneously, here is held to be] such an opinion of [these false] Sāṃkhyas.

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[Verse:] Engagement in acquiring objects [is the inverted external contentment "asutā"]; engagement in safeguarding [them is] "sutarā"; engagement in [amassing] wealth by one who does not see the fault of acquisition [is] "asunetrā"—so it is proclaimed by the Sāṃkhyas.

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[Verse:] "Akurmarīcikā" is the capacity for enjoyment of one who does not see violence and the rest [as faults]; "anuttambhāmbhasikā" is the engagement in [worldly] water [i.e. activity] on account of the enjoyment of faults.

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[Verse:] These nine are declared to be the inversions of contentment. Now the eight attainments [in inversion] are stated; these are the inversions of the attainments:

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[Verse:] For one who reasons toward plurality, the establishing of the One is [the inverted attainment] "atāraka"; misapprehension from [mere] hearing of words is "asutāraka";

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[Verse:] Having heard "the knower of plurality is liberated," the knower of unity is not a sharer in liberation—[this is the inverted "tāra"]. Through entanglement in ignorance and bad scriptures that do not carry one across; and [the inverted] "apramodā" is, in transmigration, the absence of agitation even in one who suffers.

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[Verse:] "Apramuda," or that "apramodamāna" [which is being] gladdened by ignorance—[arising] either from incorrect instruction or from obstruction in regard to the teacher;

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[Verse:] for the unfortunate there would be no attainment in knowledge—so it is declared. "Aramyaka" is the [relapse into] ignorance after knowledge, through affectionate association [with the unworthy].

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[Verse:] These eight inversions of attainment have been explained in the foregoing manner. Thus incapacity in twenty-eight ways has been explained by the combination of both [the eleven organ-injuries and the seventeen intellect-injuries].